People

This list is woefully incomplete – please feel free to add to it!

Rodney Brooks (19?? -) MIT

• Perhaps the most famous roboticist
• Director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
• Appeared in the move Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control
• Brooks books in Allegheny's library

Geoffrey E. Hinton (1947- ) Univ. of Toronto

• Hinton has won several awards for his research in neural networks and the formal analysis of human cognition.
• A number of his more recent papers are online at http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/bytopics.html.
• Here are some of his books in the Allegheny College Library.

Douglas R. Hofstadter (1945 - ) Indiana University

• Pulitzer-Prize winning author of Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
• Hofstadter books in Allegheny's library

John R. Koza Stanford University

John McCarthy (1927- ) Stanford Univ. (emeritus)

• One of the founders of the field of AI
• Coined the term "artificial intelligence" in 1955
• Invented the LISP language in 1958

Marvin Minsky (1927 - ) MIT

• Another of the founders of AI
• Author of Society of Mind and co-author (with Seymour Papert) of Perceptrons
• Minksy books in the Allegheny library

Allen Newell (1927 - 1992) CMU

• Another of the founders of AI
• Worked closely with Herbert Simon
• Some books by Newell (and others) in our library

Una-May O'Reilly () Currently at MIT

Seymour Papert (19?? - ) MIT

• Another of AI's founding fathers
• Studied with Piaget, innovator in education
• Author of Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas
• Co-author (with Marvin Minsky) of Perceptrons
• One of the founders of the MIT AI lab
• Here are some of the books in our library by Papert

Herbert A. Simon (1916 - 2001) CMU

• Also economist, psychologist (coined the term "satisfice")
• With Allen Newell, wrote many seminal papers in AI
• We've got lots of his books in our library; I recommend his autobiography Models of My Life

Lee Spector Hampshire College

• Code for GP and GA

Alan Turing (1912 - 1954) Manchester University

• In his paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", formulated the "Turing Test"
• Here's the Turing Test Home Page
• Our library has Andrew Hodges' biography Alan Turing: The Enigma>http://allecat.allegheny.edu/search/dturing%2C+alan/dturing+alan/1,3,4,B/frameset&FF=dturing+alan+mathison+1912+1954&2,,2

Kevin Warwick University of Reading, UK

• Featured in "Cyborg 1.0" (Wired, Feb. 2000)