Epstein Secrets

cluding the series "The Infinite Mind" and "Voices of An Illness", and has taught investigative journalism at The New School. He holds degrees from Brown and the Columbia School of Journalism. BETSY CONNORS Betsy Connors is an artist and educator in holography, photography, and video. She is a former

Cynthia Solomon is a computer scientist, educator and an inventor of the Logo programming language for children. She has been engaged -- along with Seymour Papert, Marvin Minsky, and others -- in foundational research on children constructing knowledge with computers. Holding an MS in Computer Science from Bo

gence Laboratory. Condensed in P. Winston and R. Brown, eds. 1979. Artificial Intelligence. Cam• bridge

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

barely), the red lines shift. Just before Louise Brown’s birth in 1978, many people were worried that sh

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

barely), the red lines shift. Just before Louise Brown’s birth in 1978, many people were worried that sh

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