Epstein Secrets

ns of the ACM 37, No. 7, 107-116 (1994). Accepted for publication May 17, 2002. J. McCarthy Stanford University Stanford, California M. Minsky Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts A. Sloman University of Birmingham Birmingham, UK L. Gong IBM Research Division Hawthorne, New York T. Lau IBM Research Divisi

A DIY guide to saving Planet Earth Human survival depends on problem fixing not avoidance - in particular learning how to cool down our planet, says David Deutsch BYLINE: David Deutsch BODY: Let's start with a couple of ideas that everyone knows. The first - dramatically named Spaceship Earth - is that our p

r than practical tests. Could a computer hold a conversation with me and persuade me it is intelligent? Meet Eliza. Invented by Joseph Weizenbaum of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and named after George Bernard Shaw’s character in Pygmalion, Eliza runs an algorithm pretending to be a psychiatrist offering a sympathetic ear to

er I go on holiday to escape engineering for a couple of weeks. While away I indulge my passion for reading books by the likes of Douglas Hofstadter, David Deutsch and Stephen Hawking. One book that struck me years ago was Roger Penrose’s The Emperors New Mind. In it, he tackles the question of what happens in t

ns of the ACM 37, No. 7, 107-116 (1994). Accepted for publication May 17, 2002. J. McCarthy Stanford University Stanford, California M. Minsky Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts A. Sloman University of Birmingham Birmingham, UK L. Gong IBM Research Division Hawthorne, New York T. Lau IBM Research Divisi

A DIY guide to saving Planet Earth Human survival depends on problem fixing not avoidance - in particular learning how to cool down our planet, says David Deutsch BYLINE: David Deutsch BODY: Let's start with a couple of ideas that everyone knows. The first - dramatically named Spaceship Earth - is that our p

Harvard University; Penn tate University; Lenox Hill Hospital (New York); the Biomedical Research and Education Foundation; the Santa Fe Institute; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Case Western Reserve University; and Harvard Medical School's Institute for Music and Brain Science. Moreover, Mr. Epstein has sponsored and chair

A DIY guide to saving Planet Earth Human survival depends on problem fixing not avoidance • in particular learning how to cool down our planet, says David Deutsch BYLINE: David Deutsch BODY: Let's start with a couple of ideas that everyone knows. The first - dramatically named Spaceship Earth - is that our p