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How to Build a Mind: Toward Machines With Imagination
by Igor Aleksander
New York: Columbia University Press, 2001

Igor Aleksander heads a major British team that has applied engineering principles to the understanding of …

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The New Cool: A Visionary Teacher, His FIRST Robotics Team, and the Ultimate Battle of Smarts
by Neal Bascomb
New York: Crown Publishers, 2011
That Monday afternoon, in high-school gyms across America, kids were …

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Final Jeopardy: Man vs. Machine and the Quest to Know Everything
by Stephen Baker
Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011
For centuries, people have dreamed of creating a machine that thinks like a human. …

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The Body Electric: An Anatomy of the New Bionic Senses
by James Geary
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002
Marie, a 63-year-old Belgian woman, has been totally blind since the age of 57. But now, …

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Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams: Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworlds
by Mitchel Resnick
Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1994
How does a bird flock keep its movements so graceful and synchronized? Most people assume that …

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Evolutionary Robotics: The Biology, Intelligence, and Technology of Self-Organizing Machines
by Stefano Nolfi and Dario Floreano
Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2000
Evolutionary robotics is a new technique for the automatic creation of autonomous robots. …

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The Age of Intelligent Machines
by Raymond Kurzweil
Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1990
What is artificial intelligence? At its essence, this is another way of asking a central question that has been debated by …

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Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence
by Andy Clark
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003
From Robocop to the Terminator to Eve 8, no image better captures our deepest fears about …

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Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind
by Hans Moravec
New York: Oxford University Press, 1999
Machines will attain human levels of intelligence by the year 2040, predicts robotics expert Hans Moravec. And by 2050, …

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Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century
by P. W. Singer
New York: Penguin Press, 2009
P. W. Singer’s previous two books foretold the rise of private military contractors …