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993, p. 80 ... ...Pretty soon you'll have no more idea of what computer you're using than you have an idea of where your electricity is generated. Danny Hillis, Wired 2.01, Jan 1994, p. 103 If we're ever going to make a thinking machine, we're going to have to face the problem of being able to build things

ticipated: Douglas Rushkoff, Marc D. Hauser, Stewart Brand, Jim O'Donnell, Jaron Lanier, Bruce Sterling, Roger Schank, George Dyson, Howard Gardner, Seymour Papert, Freeman Dyson, Esther Dyson, Kai Krause, ans Pamela McCorduck. In 2005, George Dyson noted in his prescient EDGE essay "Turing's Cathedral": My v

icardo Salinas , Charles , Ronna Tanenbaum , Stefan von Holtzbrinck Evan Williams To our Digerati friends: The following Edge edition feature on Danny Hillis reflects 20 years of his thinking on mind, evolution computers, Internet, etc. It's worth a serious EDGE conversation and would benefit from expert

ticipated: Douglas Rushkoff, Marc D. Hauser, Stewart Brand, Jim O'Donnell, Jaron Lanier, Bruce Sterling, Roger Schank, George Dyson, Howard Gardner, Seymour Papert, Freeman Dyson, Esther Dyson, Kai Krause, ans Pamela McCorduck. In 2005, George Dyson noted in his prescient EDGE essay "Turing's Cathedral": My v

ebted to conversations and/or improvisa- tions with Maryann Amacher, John Amuedo, Betty Dexter, Harlan Ellison, Edward Fredkin, Bernard Greenberg, Danny Hillis, Douglas Hofstadter, William Komfeld, Andor Kovach, David Levitt, Tod Machover, Charlotte Minsky, Curt Roads, Gloria Rudisch, Frederic Rzewski, an

instead, that inside each mind work many different agents. (The idea of societies of agents (Minsky 1977; 1980a; 19806) originated in my work with Seymour Papert.) All we really need to know about agents is this: each agent knows what happens to some others, but little of what happens to the rest. It means

to form civilizations. This grand evolutionary loop can now be closed, with atoms arranging bits arranging atoms. 119 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016922 While Danny Hillis was an undergraduate at MIT, he built a computer out of Tinkertoys. It has around 10,000 wooden parts, plays tic-tac-toe, and never loses; it’s now i

h. Frank Rosenblatt invented a learning device he called the perceptron, which was a one-layer neural network. In the late sixties, Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert wrote a book titled Perceptrons, in which they basically proved that perceptrons couldn’t do anything interesting, which is correct. Perceptrons coul

to form civilizations. This grand evolutionary loop can now be closed, with atoms arranging bits arranging atoms. 119 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016339 While Danny Hillis was an undergraduate at MIT, he built a computer out of Tinkertoys. It has around 10,000 wooden parts, plays tic-tac-toe, and never loses; it’s now i

h. Frank Rosenblatt invented a learning device he called the perceptron, which was a one-layer neural network. In the late sixties, Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert wrote a book titled Perceptrons, in which they basically proved that perceptrons couldn’t do anything interesting, which is correct. Perceptrons coul