On-line Resources for CSC 290


SITE STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION

These items are in no particular order.

A site at the City University of Hong Kong with useful, brief annotations on numerous references:
http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/humftp/Philosophy/Bibliographies/Phil_Mind/philmind.bib
Many papers there are about the symbolic/connectionist controversy, which this course will not get into.

Great site for intro information on the whole range of AI topics, including "the future", "cognitive science", etc.:
http://www.aaai.org/aitopics/

Thomas Metzinger has a philosophically-oriented bibliography (ending at 2001) at http://sammelpunkt.philo.at:8080/archive/00000262/01/ConsciousnessBib.pdf

Boston Globe interviews Marvin Minsky on book The Emotion Machine:
http://www.experientia.com/blog/the-boston-globe-interviews-marvin-minsky-on-book-the-emotion-machine/

Stuart Russell & Peter Norvig (authors of the bestselling AI text) have compiled an "AI on the Web" directory.
See http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/ai.html for many interesting pointers.

Aaron Sloman has hundreds of his and his collaborators' papers listed at the site below, and many are concerned with things like, ``what would it take to build a human-like mind?", ``Can a goldfish miss its mother?", "Can a machine love?", etc.:
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/cogaff/0-INDEX.html#contents

A Minsky Bibliography. A big collection of downloadable papers by Minsky. He's not always right, but always fun!
http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/abstracts.html

fmri's for telling when someone is going to add or subtract, before they "decide" to do it (thanks to Ben Van Durme for the pointer):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,2009217,00.html
The study revealed signatures of activity in a marble-sized part of the brain called the medial prefrontal cortex that changed when a person intended to add the numbers or subtract them.

SITEPAL used to offer animated heads here for $16/month. (Fun if one is trying to build a "talking head"!)
http://vhost.oddcast.com/vhost_minisite/index.php?email=1&affId=15630
But Ben Van Durme points out that the site has vanished, and now the following site is offering a new version of the VHost head. It's an order of magnitude better -- and 3 orders of magnitude more expensive! It's time to start scouting for freeware...
http://www.oddcast.com/home/studio


Last Change: 16 January 2008 / Len Schubert