List of Artificial Intelligence Researchers
Marvin Minsky
His short bio is at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Minsky
He would like to simulate the whole human brain. His approach is top down. Read his books
Society of Mind and The Emotion Machine.
Rodney Brooks
His short bio is at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Brooks
Brooks has focused on biologically-inspired robotic architectures that address basic
perceptual and sensorimotor tasks. Brooks has argued that interacting with the physical
world is far more difficult than symbolically reasoning about it.
http://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/papers/elephants.pdf
Hans Moravec
His short bio is at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Moravec
His main web page is at:
Moravec was a cofounder of SEEGRID Corporation in 2003 which is a robotics company with
one of its goals being to develop a fully autonomous robot capable of navigating its
environment without human intervention. He wants to mass market robots before 2010.
Douglas Lenat
His short bio is at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Lenat
His company is at: http://www.cyc.com/
Jeff Hawkins
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Hawkins
Jeff Hawkins company Numenta: www.numenta.com
I heard Jeff speak at MIT's Emerging Technologies Conference.
You may listen to that speech at: http://mitworld.mit.edu/stream/314/
Recent article "Learn Like a Human" at: http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/apr07/4982/1
He is using Matlab to do his simulations and that may make his simulations quite slow. He is
only trying to simulate the neocortex, which may be 60% of the mass of the brain but contains
fewer neurons than the cerebellum. More recently evolved structures are less compact than
older ones are.
Raymond Kurzweil
His next book will be about how to construct a human brain.
Ben Goertzle
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/goertzel.html
BEN GOERTZEL is founder Chairman, and Chief Technology Officer of Webmind Inc., and the
chief architect of the Webmind AI system which not only understands the meaning of
concepts expressed in text, speech and numerical data patterns, but also creates its own ideas
based on the information it accesses.
Microsoft
Microsoft Robotics Studio
IBM at Almaden research center is simulating single neurons and then groups of neurons.
can simulate a mouse brain at 1/6th speed.
Yahoo
Expanding their search engine capabilities.
http://www.yahoo.com
Google
Most popular search engine. They are adding many new sites with huge numbers of
computers.
irazoo
A search engine which looks for conscious feedback from users.
www.irazoo.com
It doesn't do something as simple as finding the "latest best laptop" because it doesn't look at
the date that a review was made. It might give me a review of laptops written in 2002, for
example. Simple example by example learning doesn't work because learning that I want the
latest review of laptops isn't generalized by the irazoo search engine so that it applies to the
"latest best hybrid automobiles" Google's approach of adding on one function at a time stands
a better chance of getting somewhere in an evolutionary sense. For example, Google might
allow me to search for web pages created recently by making me type "recent two weeks:" for
now and later it might understand my syntax when I search for "latest best laptop review."
Robocup is an organization which talks about Humans versus Humanoids in soccer
competitions of the future: http://www.robocup.org/
NASA's Robonaut can find a nut, a wrench and a bolt and use the wrench to install the bolt
over the threaded bolt. Is their technique for doing this impressive?
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Marvin Minsky
His short bio is at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Minsky
He would like to simulate the whole human brain. His approach is top down. Read his books
Society of Mind and The Emotion Machine.
Rodney Brooks
His short bio is at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Brooks
Brooks has focused on biologically-inspired robotic architectures that address basic
perceptual and sensorimotor tasks. Brooks has argued that interacting with the physical
world is far more difficult than symbolically reasoning about it.
http://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/papers/elephants.pdf
Hans Moravec
His short bio is at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Moravec
His main web page is at:
Moravec was a cofounder of SEEGRID Corporation in 2003 which is a robotics company with
one of its goals being to develop a fully autonomous robot capable of navigating its
environment without human intervention. He wants to mass market robots before 2010.
Douglas Lenat
His short bio is at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Lenat
His company is at: http://www.cyc.com/
Jeff Hawkins
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Hawkins
Jeff Hawkins company Numenta: www.numenta.com
I heard Jeff speak at MIT's Emerging Technologies Conference.
You may listen to that speech at: http://mitworld.mit.edu/stream/314/
Recent article "Learn Like a Human" at: http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/apr07/4982/1
He is using Matlab to do his simulations and that may make his simulations quite slow. He is
only trying to simulate the neocortex, which may be 60% of the mass of the brain but contains
fewer neurons than the cerebellum. More recently evolved structures are less compact than
older ones are.
Raymond Kurzweil
His next book will be about how to construct a human brain.
Ben Goertzle
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/goertzel.html
BEN GOERTZEL is founder Chairman, and Chief Technology Officer of Webmind Inc., and the
chief architect of the Webmind AI system which not only understands the meaning of
concepts expressed in text, speech and numerical data patterns, but also creates its own ideas
based on the information it accesses.
Microsoft
Microsoft Robotics Studio
IBM at Almaden research center is simulating single neurons and then groups of neurons.
can simulate a mouse brain at 1/6th speed.
Yahoo
Expanding their search engine capabilities.
http://www.yahoo.com
Most popular search engine. They are adding many new sites with huge numbers of
computers.
irazoo
A search engine which looks for conscious feedback from users.
www.irazoo.com
It doesn't do something as simple as finding the "latest best laptop" because it doesn't look at
the date that a review was made. It might give me a review of laptops written in 2002, for
example. Simple example by example learning doesn't work because learning that I want the
latest review of laptops isn't generalized by the irazoo search engine so that it applies to the
"latest best hybrid automobiles" Google's approach of adding on one function at a time stands
a better chance of getting somewhere in an evolutionary sense. For example, Google might
allow me to search for web pages created recently by making me type "recent two weeks:" for
now and later it might understand my syntax when I search for "latest best laptop review."
Robocup is an organization which talks about Humans versus Humanoids in soccer
competitions of the future: http://www.robocup.org/
NASA's Robonaut can find a nut, a wrench and a bolt and use the wrench to install the bolt
over the threaded bolt. Is their technique for doing this impressive?
Technobot
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