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The Age of Intelligent Machines - the Video

The Age of Intelligent Machines - the Video( )
Author: Kurzweil, Ray
ISBN:978-0-262-11121-8
Publication Date:Sep 1990
Publisher:MIT Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $39.95
Book Description:

What is artificial intelligence? At its essence, it is another way of answering a central question that has been debated by scientists, philosophers, and theologians for thousands of years: How does the human brain - three pounds of ordinary matter - give rise to thought? With this question in mind, inventor and visionary computer scientist Raymond Kurzweil probes the past, present, and future of artificial intelligence, from its earliest philosophical and mathematical roots through...
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Book Details
Pages:580
Detailed Subjects: Computers / Artificial Intelligence / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):0.429 x 3.354 x 0.585 Inches
Book Weight:4.752 Pounds
Author Biography
Kurzweil, Ray (Author)
Ray Kurzweil was born on February 12, 1948. He was the principal developer of the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition. He has received numerous awards including the MIT-Lemelson Prize and the National Medal of Technology. In 2002, he was inducted into the National Inventor's Hall of Fame. He has written several books including The Age of Spiritual Machines, The Age of Intelligent Machines, The Singularity Is Near, and How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed.

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