Talking Nets

Author : James A. Anderson,Edward Rosenfeld
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2000-02-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0262511118

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Talking Nets by James A. Anderson,Edward Rosenfeld Pdf

Surprising tales from the scientists who first learned how to use computers to understand the workings of the human brain. Since World War II, a group of scientists has been attempting to understand the human nervous system and to build computer systems that emulate the brain's abilities. Many of the early workers in this field of neural networks came from cybernetics; others came from neuroscience, physics, electrical engineering, mathematics, psychology, even economics. In this collection of interviews, those who helped to shape the field share their childhood memories, their influences, how they became interested in neural networks, and what they see as its future. The subjects tell stories that have been told, referred to, whispered about, and imagined throughout the history of the field. Together, the interviews form a Rashomon-like web of reality. Some of the mythic people responsible for the foundations of modern brain theory and cybernetics, such as Norbert Wiener, Warren McCulloch, and Frank Rosenblatt, appear prominently in the recollections. The interviewees agree about some things and disagree about more. Together, they tell the story of how science is actually done, including the false starts, and the Darwinian struggle for jobs, resources, and reputation. Although some of the interviews contain technical material, there is no actual mathematics in the book. Contributors James A. Anderson, Michael Arbib, Gail Carpenter, Leon Cooper, Jack Cowan, Walter Freeman, Stephen Grossberg, Robert Hecht-Neilsen, Geoffrey Hinton, Teuvo Kohonen, Bart Kosko, Jerome Lettvin, Carver Mead, David Rumelhart, Terry Sejnowski, Paul Werbos, Bernard Widrow

Author : James Alfred Anderson,Edward Rosenfeld
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Neural computers
ISBN : OCLC:278481125

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Talking Nets by James Alfred Anderson,Edward Rosenfeld Pdf

Author : Edward Rosenfeld,James Alfred Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Computer scientists
ISBN : 0262511118

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Talking Nets by Edward Rosenfeld,James Alfred Anderson Pdf

Author : Igor Aleksander,Helen Morton
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789814343503

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Aristotle's Laptop by Igor Aleksander,Helen Morton Pdf

Aristotle''s convincing philosophy is likely to have shaped (even indirectly) many of our current beliefs, prejudices and attitudes to life. This includes the way in which our mind (that is, our capacity to have private thoughts) appears to elude a scientific description. This book is about a scientific ingredient that was not available to Aristotle: the science of information. Would the course of the philosophy of the mind have been different had Aristotle pronounced that the matter of mind was information? This OC mind is informationOCO assertion is often heard in contemporary debates, and this book explores the verities and falsehoods of this proposition."

Author : Yutaka Nakai,Yuhsuke Koyama,Takao Terano
Publisher : Springer
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9784431552369

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Agent-Based Approaches in Economic and Social Complex Systems VIII by Yutaka Nakai,Yuhsuke Koyama,Takao Terano Pdf

Agent-based modeling/simulation is an emergent approach to the analysis of social and economic systems. It provides a bottom-up experimental method to be applied to social sciences such as economics, management, sociology and politics as well as some engineering fields dealing with social activities. This book includes selected papers presented at the Eighth International Workshop on Agent-Based Approaches in Economic and Social Complex Systems held in Tokyo, Japan, in 2013. At the workshop, 23 reviewed full papers were presented and of those, 13 were selected to be included in this volume.

Author : Margaret A. Boden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1705 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780199241446

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Mind as Machine by Margaret A. Boden Pdf

Cognitive science is among the most fascinating intellectual achievements of the modern era. The quest to understand the mind is an ancient one. But modern science has offered new insights and techniques that have revolutionized this enquiry. Oxford University Press now presents a masterlyhistory of the field, told by one of its most eminent practitioners.Psychology is the thematic heart of cognitive science, which aims to understand human (and animal) minds. But its core theoretical ideas are drawn from cybernetics and artificial intelligence, and many cognitive scientists try to build functioning models of how the mind works. In that sense,Margaret Boden suggests, its key insight is that mind is a (very special) machine. Because the mind has many different aspects, the field is highly interdisciplinary. It integrates psychology not only with cybernetics/AI, but also with neuroscience and clinical neurology; with the philosophy ofmind, language, and logic; with linguistic work on grammar, semantics, and communication; with anthropological studies of cultures; and with biological (and A-Life) research on animal behaviour, evolution, and life itself. Each of these disciplines, in its own way, asks what the mind is, what itdoes, how it works, how it develops---and how it is even possible.Boden traces the key questions back to Descartes's revolutionary writings, and to the ideas of his followers--and his radical critics--through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Her story shows how controversies in the development of experimental physiology, neurophysiology, psychology,evolutionary biology, embryology, and logic are still relevant today. Then she guides the reader through the complex interlinked paths along which the study of mind developed in the twentieth century. Cognitive science covers all mental phenomena: not just 'cognition' (knowledge), but also emotion,personality, psychopathology, social communication, religion, motor action, and consciousness. In each area, Boden introduces the key ideas and researchers and discusses those philosophical critics who see cognitive science as fundamentally misguided. And she sketches the waves of resistance andacceptance on the part of the media and general public, showing how these have affected the development of the field.No one else could tell this story as Boden can: she has been a member of the cognitive science community since the late-1950s, and has known many of its key figures personally. Her narrative is written in a lively, swift-moving style, enriched by the personal touch of someone who knows the story atfirst hand. Her history looks forward as well as back: besides asking how state-of-the-art research compares with the hopes of the early pioneers, she identifies the most promising current work. Mind as Machine will be a rich resource for anyone working on the mind, in any academic discipline, whowants to know how our understanding of mental capacities has advanced over the years.

Author : Lior Rokach
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-27
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789811201974

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Ensemble Learning: Pattern Classification Using Ensemble Methods (Second Edition) by Lior Rokach Pdf

This updated compendium provides a methodical introduction with a coherent and unified repository of ensemble methods, theories, trends, challenges, and applications. More than a third of this edition comprised of new materials, highlighting descriptions of the classic methods, and extensions and novel approaches that have recently been introduced.Along with algorithmic descriptions of each method, the settings in which each method is applicable and the consequences and tradeoffs incurred by using the method is succinctly featured. R code for implementation of the algorithm is also emphasized.The unique volume provides researchers, students and practitioners in industry with a comprehensive, concise and convenient resource on ensemble learning methods.

Author : Manfred R. Schroeder
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783662038611

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Computer Speech by Manfred R. Schroeder Pdf

New material treats such contemporary subjects as automatic speech recognition and speaker verification for banking by computer and privileged (medical, military, diplomatic) information and control access. The book also focuses on speech and audio compression for mobile communication and the Internet. The importance of subjective quality criteria is stressed. The book also contains introductions to human monaural and binaural hearing, and the basic concepts of signal analysis. Beyond speech processing, this revised and extended new edition of Computer Speech gives an overview of natural language technology and presents the nuts and bolts of state-of-the-art speech dialogue systems.

Author : Àngels Massip-Bonet,Albert Bastardas-Boada
Publisher : Springer
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-13
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783642328176

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Complexity Perspectives on Language, Communication and Society by Àngels Massip-Bonet,Albert Bastardas-Boada Pdf

The “language-communication-society” triangle defies traditional scientific approaches. Rather, it is a phenomenon that calls for an integration of complex, transdisciplinary perspectives, if we are to make any progress in understanding how it works. The highly diverse agents in play are not merely cognitive and/or cultural, but also emotional and behavioural in their specificity. Indeed, the effort may require building a theoretical and methodological body of knowledge that can effectively convey the characteristic properties of phenomena in human terms. New complexity approaches allow us to rethink our limited and mechanistic images of human societies and create more appropriate emo-cognitive dynamic and holistic models. We have to enter into dialogue with the complexity views coming out of other more ‘material’ sciences, but we also need to take steps in the linguistic and psycho-sociological fields towards creating perspectives and concepts better fitted to human characteristics. Our understanding of complexity is different – but not opposed – to the one that is more commonly found in texts written by people working in physics or computer science, for example. The goal of this book is to extend the knowledge of these other more ‘human’ or socially oriented perspectives on complexity, taking account of the language and communication singularities of human agents in society. Our understanding of complexity is different – but not opposed – to the one that is more commonly found in texts written by people working in physics or computer science, for example. The goal of this book is to extend the knowledge of these other more ‘human’ or socially oriented perspectives on complexity, taking account of the language and communication singularities of human agents in society.

Author : Joseph W. Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Fishing
ISBN : HARVARD:HWHH7K

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Winter Talk on Summer Pastimes by Joseph W. Smith Pdf

Author : Guillaume Coqueret,Tony Guida
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-08
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781000912807

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Machine Learning for Factor Investing by Guillaume Coqueret,Tony Guida Pdf

a detailed presentation of the key machine learning tools use in finance a large scale coding tutorial with easily reproducible examples realistic applications on a large publicly available dataset all the key ingredients to perform a full portfolio backtest

Author : Alonso, Eduardo,Mondrag¢n, Esther
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781609600235

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Computational Neuroscience for Advancing Artificial Intelligence: Models, Methods and Applications by Alonso, Eduardo,Mondrag¢n, Esther Pdf

"This book argues that computational models in behavioral neuroscience must be taken with caution, and advocates for the study of mathematical models of existing theories as complementary to neuro-psychological models and computational models"--

Author : Fabrizio Calzavarini,Marco Viola
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030540920

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Neural Mechanisms by Fabrizio Calzavarini,Marco Viola Pdf

This volume brings together new papers advancing contemporary debates in foundational, conceptual, and methodological issues in cognitive neuroscience. The different perspectives presented in each chapter have previously been discussed between the authors, as the volume builds on the experience of Neural Mechanisms (NM) Online – webinar series on the philosophy of neuroscience organized by the editors of this volume. The contributed chapters pertain to five core areas in current philosophy of neuroscience. It surveys the novel forms of explanation (and prediction) developed in cognitive neuroscience, and looks at new concepts, methods and techniques used in the field. The book also highlights the metaphysical challenges raised by recent neuroscience and demonstrates the relation between neuroscience and mechanistic philosophy. Finally, the book dives into the issue of neural computations and representations. Assembling contributions from leading philosophers of neuroscience, this work draws upon the expertise of both established scholars and promising early career researchers.

Author : Herve Abdi,Dominique Valentin,Betty Edelman
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0761914404

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Neural Networks by Herve Abdi,Dominique Valentin,Betty Edelman Pdf

"Neural Networks have influenced many areas of research but have only just started to be utilized in social science research. Neural Networks provides the first accessible introduction to this analysis as a powerful method for social scientists. It provides numerous studies and examples that illustrate the advantages of neural network analysis over other quantitative and modeling methods in wide spread use among social scientists. The author presents the methods in an accessible style for the reader who does not have a background in computer science. Features include an introduction to the vocabulary and framework of neural networks, a concise history of neural network methods, a substantial review of the literature, detailed neural network applications in the social sciences, coverage of the most common alternative neural network models, methodological considerations in applying neural networks, examples using the two leading software packages for neural network analysis, and numerous illustrations and diagrams."--Pub. desc.

Author : Tara Abraham
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780262335393

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Rebel Genius by Tara Abraham Pdf

The life and work of a scientist who spent his career crossing disciplinary boundaries—from experimental neurology to psychiatry to cybernetics to engineering. Warren S. McCulloch (1898–1969) adopted many identities in his scientific life—among them philosopher, poet, neurologist, neurophysiologist, neuropsychiatrist, collaborator, theorist, cybernetician, mentor, engineer. He was, writes Tara Abraham in this account of McCulloch's life and work, “an intellectual showman,” and performed this part throughout his career. While McCulloch claimed a common thread in his work was the problem of mind and its relationship to the brain, there was much more to him than that. In Rebel Genius, Abraham uses McCulloch's life as a window on a past scientific age, showing the complex transformations that took place in American brain and mind science in the twentieth century—particularly those surrounding the cybernetics movement. Abraham describes McCulloch's early work in neuropsychiatry, and his emerging identity as a neurophysiologist. She explores his transformative years at the Illinois Neuropsychiatric Institute and his work with Walter Pitts—often seen as the first iteration of “artificial intelligence” but here described as stemming from the new tradition of mathematical treatments of biological problems. Abraham argues that McCulloch's dual identities as neuropsychiatrist and cybernetician are inseparable. He used the authority he gained in traditional disciplinary roles as a basis for posing big questions about the brain and mind as a cybernetician. When McCulloch moved to the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT, new practices for studying the brain, grounded in mathematics, philosophy, and theoretical modeling, expanded the relevance and ramifications of his work. McCulloch's transdisciplinary legacies anticipated today's multidisciplinary field of cognitive science.