Computers : Intelligence (AI) & Semantics

Alison Adam challenges the masculine slant in the Artificial Intelligence of the world in her book which re-enforces criticisms of the AI project. Adam also ......

Written by an award-winning electronics author, the Concise Encyclopedia of Robotics delivers 400 up-to-date, easy-to-read definitions that make even complex......

"Critiques of Knowing" explores what happens to science and computing when we think of them as texts. Lynette Hunter elegantly weaves together such vast area......

The Hidden Pattern presents a novel philosophy of mind, intended to form a coherent conceptual framework within which it is possible to understand the divers......

This book deals with the major philosophical issues in the theoretical framework of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in particular and cognitive science in gener......

"Cyberfeminism and Artificial Life" examines construction, manipulation and re-definition of life in contemporary technoscientific culture. It takes a critic......

Blondie24 tells the story of a computer that taught itself to play checkers far better than its creators ever could by using a program that emulated the basi......

The text is centered on the concept of an agent as decision maker. Chapter 1 is a short introduction to the field of multiagent systems. Chapter 2 covers the......

Ensemble methods have been called the most influential development in Data Mining and Machine Learning in the past decade. They combine multiple models into ......

The thrilling history and behind-the-scenes story of Watson, the computer created by IBM scientists to take on two masters of Jeopardy!, Ken Jennings and Bra......

A synopsis of eminent computer chess programs reveal that they are designed around a 'brute force' approach. An argument is made that by continuing the 'bru......

A new edition to celebrate Alan Turing's centenary, includes a new foreword by the author and a preface by Douglas Hofstadter. Alan Turing was the extraordi......