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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
David G Stork |
| ISBN: | 0262193787 9780262193788 |
| OCLC Number: | 35043120 |
| Description: | xxi, 384 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The best-informed dream : HAL and the vision of 2001 / David G. Stork -- Scientist on the set : an interview with Marvin Minsky / David G. Stork -- Could we build HAL? : supercomputer design / David J. Kuck -- "Foolproof and incapable of error?" : reliable computing and fault tolerance / Ravishankar K. Iyer -- "An enjoyable game" : how HAL plays chess / Murray S. Campbell -- "The talking computer" : text to speech synthesis / Joseph P. Olive -- When will HAL understand what we are saying? : computer speech recognition and understanding / Raymond Kurzweil -- "I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that" : how could HAL use language / Roger C. Schank -- From 2001 to 2001 : common sense and the mind of HAL / Douglas B. Lenat -- Eyes for computers : how HAL could "see" / Azriel Rosenfeld -- "I could see your lips move" : HAL and speechreading / David G. Stork -- Living in space : working with the machines of the future / Donald A. Norman -- Does HAL cry digital tears? : emotions and computers / Rosalind W. Picard -- "That's something I could not allow to happen" : HAL and planning / David E. Wilkins -- Computers, science, and extraterrestrials : an interview with Stephen Wolfram / David G. Stork -- When HAL kills, who's to blame? : computer ethics / Daniel C. Dennett. |
| Responsibility: | edited by David G. Stork. |
Abstract:
A look at the technologies that would be critical for building computers like HAL from "2001: a space Odyssey". Topics include articical intelligence, speech recognition and synthesis, and human-machine interaction. Stork also looks at how the book has influenced research.
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