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Book SynopsisThis is the fifteenth volume in the Machine Intelligence series, founded in 1965 by Donald Michie, and includes papers by a number of eminent AI figures including John McCarthy, Alan Robinson, Robert Kowalski and Mike Genesereth. The book is centred on the theme of intelligent agents and covers a wide range of topics, including: - Representations of consciousness (John McCarthy, Stanford University and Donald Michie, Edinburgh University) - SoftBots (Bruce Blumberg, MIT Media Lab) - Parallel implementations of logic (Alan Robinson, Syracuse University) - Machine learning (Stephen Muggleton, Oxford University) - Machine vision (Andrew Blake, Oxford University) - Machine-based scientific discovery in molecular biology (Mike Sternberg, Imperial Cancer Research Fund).
Table of ContentsCONSCIOUSNESS AND CAUSATION; COMPUTER VISION; AGENTS THAT LEARN; FORMALISMS AND MODELS OF LEARNING; APPLIED SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY; CONCURRENT DECLARATIVE PROGRAMMING; HISTORY OF COMPUTING
