human Books
We've found 71 books tagged 'human' relevant to the field of humanlike conversational artificial intelligence.
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Rough Guides
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2007 |
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Summary: Within our skulls resides an organ more powerful than the fastest supercomputer, the ultimate multi-tasker controlling everything from the retrieval of memories to complex reasoning - and even breathing. The Rough Guide to the Brain provides an absorbing and accessible introduction to the science of...
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Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension |
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Oxford University Press
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2008 |
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http://www.amazon.com/Supersiz... |
Summary: When historian Charles Weiner found pages of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman’s notes, he saw it as a “record” of Feynman’s work. Feynman himself, however, insisted that the notes were not a record but the work itself. In Supersizing the Mind, Andy Clark argues that...
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by Rae Earnshaw and John Vince |
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Springer
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2002 |
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http://www.amazon.com/Intellig... |
Summary: As the Internet and the WWW impact on corporate and private activities, the human-computer interface is becoming a central issue for the designers of these systems. Such interfaces will decide the success or failure of future technologies, which will have to provide users with easy-to-use...
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(Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman Memorial Lectures) |
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Yale University Press
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2000 |
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http://www.amazon.com/Computer... |
Summary: With a foreword by Paul M. Churchland and Patricia S. Churchland. This book represents the views of one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century on the analogies between computing machines and the living human brain. John von Neumann concludes that the brain operates...
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6095
by Norman I. Badler, Cary B. Phillips and Bonnie Lynn Webber |
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Computer Graphics Animation and Control |
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Oxford University Press
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1993 |
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http://www.amazon.com/Simulati... |
Summary: During the past decade, high-performance computer graphics have found application in an exciting and expanding range of new domains. Among the most dramatic developments has been the incorporation of real-time interactive manipulation and display for human figures. Though actively pursued by several research groups, the...
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Springer
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2004 |
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Summary: This book focuses on two issues related to human figures: realtime dynamics computation and interactive motion generation. In spite of the growing interest in human figures as both physical robots and virtual characters, standard algorithms and tools for their kinematics and dynamics computation have not...
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Wiley
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2009 |
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http://www.amazon.com/3-D-Huma... |
Summary: All the tools and techniques you need to bring human figures to 3-D life.
Thanks to today’s remarkable technology, artists can create and animate realistic, three-dimensional human figures that were not possible just a few years ago. This easy-to-follow book guides you through all the necessary...
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5913
by N. Katherine Hayles |
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Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics |
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University Of Chicago Press
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1999 |
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http://www.amazon.com/How-Beca... |
Summary: In this age of DNA computers and artificial intelligence, information is becoming disembodied even as the “bodies” that once carried it vanish into virtuality. While some marvel at these changes, envisioning consciousness downloaded into a computer or humans “beamed” Star Trek-style, others view them with...
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5816
by Scientific American |
Summary: UNDERSTANDING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE is one of the first four titles that launch an exciting new Pocket Science series, from the editors of America’s leading popular science magazine, Scientific American.
Comprised of critically acclaimed essays by the world’s leading experts on each topic in the series, these...
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5813
by Douglas R. Hofstadter |
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An Eternal Golden Braid |
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Basic Books
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1979 |
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http://www.amazon.com/Godel-Es... |
Summary: Douglas Hofstadter’s book is concerned directly with the nature of “maps” or links between formal systems. However, according to Hofstadter, the formal system that underlies all mental activity transcends the system that supports it. If life can grow out of the formal chemical substrate of...
