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 Formal Theory of Multiple Agent Non-monotonic Reasoning," Proceedings of the Eighth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI Press. Menlo Park, CA (1990), pp. 538- 544. (6.) E. I= "The Naive Physics Perplex," AI Magazine 19, No. 4, 51-79 (1998). (7.) D. Lenat, "Cyc: A Large-Scale Investme

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 Formal Theory of Multiple Agent Non-monotonic Reasoning," Proceedings of the Eighth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI Press, Menlo Park, CA (1990), pp. 538- 544. (6.) E Davis, The Naive Physics Perplex," AI Magazine 19, No. 4, 51-79 (1998). (7.) D. Lenat, "Cyc: A Large-Scale Investm

empt of his to show how machines, even simple ones, might seduce us with both brains and looks. The effect of a giant tinkertoy pile sitting there at The Massachusets Institute of Technology had to make you giggle, even as your mind boggled at the fact that this heap of sticks, strings and dials was beating you again and again ata child’s

e work is done in rooms within rooms within rooms. To drive along the dulled, anodyne asphalt stretch of road that runs in front of Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park almost hurts your head: Inside the offices on revolutions are dreamed, debated and funded. And it looks, for the most part, like a row of mildly pros

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 Formal Theory of Multiple Agent Non-monotonic Reasoning," Proceedings of the Eighth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI Press, Menlo Park, CA (1990), pp. 538- 544. (6.) E. M, "The Naive Physics Perplex," Al Magazine 19, No. 4, 51-79 (1998). (7.) D. Lenat, "Cyc: A Large-Scale Investme