In a 1955 Scientific American (SA) article, John G. Kemeny, computer scientist,
mathematician, and co-developer of the BASIC programming language, described the …

Few scientific topics since the theory of biological evolution have inspired as much
controversy as artificial intelligence has. Even now, fifty years after the term first made its …

When it comes to the future of artificial intelligence, we seem to be stuck in a loop. We tell the
same stories about AI over and over again: society is destroyed (the" Terminator" movies) …

This chapter articulates the binary between craft and code that animates the volume as a
whole. This binary was developed in the nineteenth century (although precedents can be …

Commentators on AI converge on two goals they believe define the field:(1) to better
understand the mind by specifying computational models and (2) to construct computer …

Arising in the mid-20th century at the intersection of cybernetics, control theory, operations
research, cognitive psychology, and the nascent computer science, AI is a field of study …

Abstract Ada Lovelace (1815–1852), the Victorian-era mathematician daughter of the
Romantic poet Lord Byron, is famous for her work with Charles Babbage on the Analytic …

Making use of the techniques of media ecology we argue that the premise of the
technological Singularity based on the notion computers will one day be smarter that their …

Gort1, HAL 90002, R2-D2 and C-3PO3, Skynet4–to every sci-fi enthusiast these are iconic
names that are usually associated with literary or cinematographic mastery. In an academic …

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has transcended beyond buzzwords, keywords or trends. The
ubiquity of AI is so profound that it has managed to seep into popular culture. It breeds …