Course Text Books
The following are required reading for 290 (at least in part,
as will be specified). I have requested that all of them be placed
on reserve at Carlson Library (with a delay till the end of January
for McDermott's Mind and Mechanism).
- “Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind” by
Hans Moravec (Oxford U.P., 1999).
- “The Age of Spritual Machines” by Ray Kurzweil
(Penguin Books, 1999).
- “Arguing A.I. : The Battle for Twenty-first-Century Science”
by Sam Williams (AtRandom, 2002).
- “The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the
Twenty-first Century“ by John Brockman (ed.) (Vintage, 2002).
- “Mind and Mechanism” by Drew McDermott
(MIT Press, 2001).
- “Our Final Hour” by Martin Rees (Basic Books, 2003).
- “Machines Who Think” by Pamela McCorduck
(W.H. Freeman and Co., 1979).
- “Mind Matters” by James P. Hogan (Ballantine, 1997).
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