ram which combines qualitative reasoning and reinforcement learning to enable an intelligent agent to learn how to act, perceive and model the world. Kuipers’ notion of “bootstrap learning” involves allowing the robot to learn almost everything about its world, including for instance the structure of 3D sp

rld, including for instance the structure of 3D space and other things that humans and other animals obtain via their genetic endowments. Compared to Kuipers’ approach, CogPrime falls in line with most other approaches which provide more “hard-wired” structure, following the analogy to biological organisms

tional reporting was provided by The Minnesota Star Tribune (11/25, Nelson). Police, FBI Make Drug Bust in Idaho Moscow-Pullman Daily News (11/25, Kuipers) reported that the FBI and local police arrested four people, including Cyra Cunningham, Janet Pakootas, Kevin Lee Tannehill, and Ruben Padilla, in

am which combines qualitative reasoning and reinforcement learning to enable an intelligent agent to learn how to act, perceive and model the world. Kuipers' notion of "bootstrap learning" involves allowing the robot to learn almost everything about its world, including for instance the structure of 3D