Epstein Secrets

5 Rank Prize, Royal Society of Medicine, 1995 Computer Pioneer Award, IEEE Computer Society, 1995 R.W. Wood Prize, Optical Society of America, 2001 Benjamin Franklin Medal, Franklin Institute, 2001 In Praise of Reason Award, World Skeptics Congress, 2002 SOCIETIES President, American Association for Artificial Intell

matics Princeton University 1951-54 Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows, 1954-1957 PROFESSIONAL Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, M.I.T, 1990-present Donner Professor of Science, M.I.T., 1974-1989 Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, M.I.T., 1974 Co-Director, M.I.T. Artif

he Robert Wood Prize for Optoelectronics, and the Benjamin Franklin Medal. Push Singh is a doctoral candidate in MIT

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

he Robert Wood Prize for Optoelectronics, and the Benjamin Franklin Medal. Push Singh is a doctoral candidate in M1T

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

ercise, Dave. Just as an age without connected devices will one day seem strangely antique, so will a world without the constant touch of AI. Recall Benjamin Franklin’s famous lament in the 1780s, that he’d sadly been “born too early” to enjoy the fruits of reason Starting to spill into his world as a result of the S

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

he Robert Wood Prize for Optoelectronics, and the Benjamin Franklin Medal. Push Singh is a doctoral candidate in MIT

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