Brainmakers by David H. Freedman Simon & Schuster, New York, 1994 First Edition
Title: Brainmakers: How scientists are moving beyond computers to create a rival to the human brain
Author: David H. Freedman
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster 1994
Edition: First Edition
ISBN: 9780671760793
Size: 6.25 X 9.5 * 214 pages
Synopsis: From the Jacket: The idea of building intelligent machines has fascinated scientists and lay people for centuries. But progress has been much slower than everyone predicted thirty-five years ago when artificial intelligence and robotics first emerged. Although computers can crunch numbers at staggering speeds, so-called "thinking machines" have achieved very little ability outside of highly restricted domains such as chess-to reason in useful or interesting ways, or even to do simple things that children can manage easily, such as recognizing faces or moving through a room without bumping into furniture.
But now a new approach to artificial intelligence promises to break that logjam. Brainmakers is an account of the revolutionary research taking place around the world, aimed at creating devices that are more like living brains than computers. David H. Freedman introduces us to the adventurous researchers leading this new field, as well as to their creations, including:
• A robot farm where robots will be "bred" for intelligence
• A jarful of chemicals that can recognize patterns, and act like a primitive life-form
• A machine that experiences human-like brainwaves and mental disorders
• A new form of computer chip fashioned out of living brain cells.
In colorful detail David H. Freedman shows how this radically new research has moved into a realm that transcends computer science, combining neuroscience, microbiology, evolutionary biology, and zoology. Brainmakers is the first account of the latest developments in this exciting area of science and technology.
DAVID H. FREEDMAN is a contributing editor to Discover magazine, and a regular contributor to Science, Forbes ASAP, CIO, and Self. He has also written for The Boston Globe, The Boston Globe Magazine, The Washington Post, Inc., and The Harvard Business Review. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts, with his wife and two children.
Overall Condition: Good+ Ex Library with some of the usual extras in a jacket with protective plastic cover. The binding has minimal wear and the pages are undamaged with no creasing or tearing, no pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins. There are no missing pages; see images.
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