The Brains of Men and Machines

The Brains of Men and Machines
Author: Ernest W. Kent
Publisher: BYTE Books
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1981
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

Basic principles. The output controllers of the brain. The first analysis of input. Some further types of initial input analysis. The higher perceptual processes. The logical functions. The goal-defining systems. Hemispheric specialization and the higher functions. Storage and retrieval. The minds of men and machines.

Men and MacHines

Men and MacHines
Author: Robert Silverberg
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2009-03-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1434454991

Included: "Counter Foil," by George O. Smith; "A Bad Day for Sales," by Fritz Leiber; "Without a Thought," by Fred Saberhagan; "Solar Plexus," by James Blish; "The Macauley Circuit," by Robert Silverberg; "But Who Can Replace a Man?," by Brian W. Aldiss; "Instinct," by Lester del Rey; "The Twonky," by Lewis Padgett (Henry Kuttner); "Hunting Lodge," by Randall Garrett; and "With Folded Hands," by Jack Williamson.

On Intelligence

On Intelligence
Author: Jeff Hawkins
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2007-04-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1429900458

From the inventor of the PalmPilot comes a new and compelling theory of intelligence, brain function, and the future of intelligent machines Jeff Hawkins, the man who created the PalmPilot, Treo smart phone, and other handheld devices, has reshaped our relationship to computers. Now he stands ready to revolutionize both neuroscience and computing in one stroke, with a new understanding of intelligence itself. Hawkins develops a powerful theory of how the human brain works, explaining why computers are not intelligent and how, based on this new theory, we can finally build intelligent machines. The brain is not a computer, but a memory system that stores experiences in a way that reflects the true structure of the world, remembering sequences of events and their nested relationships and making predictions based on those memories. It is this memory-prediction system that forms the basis of intelligence, perception, creativity, and even consciousness. In an engaging style that will captivate audiences from the merely curious to the professional scientist, Hawkins shows how a clear understanding of how the brain works will make it possible for us to build intelligent machines, in silicon, that will exceed our human ability in surprising ways. Written with acclaimed science writer Sandra Blakeslee, On Intelligence promises to completely transfigure the possibilities of the technology age. It is a landmark book in its scope and clarity.

Electronic Brains

Electronic Brains
Author: Mike Hally
Publisher: Granta Books (Uk)
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2005
Genre: Computers
ISBN:

Account of the birth of the modern computer from 1930-1960.

The Age of Intelligent Machines

The Age of Intelligent Machines
Author: Ray Kurzweil
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press
Total Pages: 565
Release: 1992
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780262610797

Comparing the human brain with so-called artificial intelligence, the author probes past, present, and future attempts to create machine intelligence

The Computer and the Brain

The Computer and the Brain
Author: John Von Neumann
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780300084733

This book represents the views of one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century on the analogies between computing machines and the living human brain. John von Neumann concludes that the brain operates in part digitally, in part analogically, but uses a peculiar statistical language unlike that employed in the operation of man-made computers. This edition includes a new foreword by two eminent figures in the fields of philosophy, neuroscience, and consciousness.

Men at Work

Men at Work
Author: Lewis Wickes Hine
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 65
Release: 1977-01-01
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 0486234754

Hine, widely known for his photographs of immigrants arriving at Ellis Island and his studies of child labor, brings enormous technical ability and sensitivity to these images of construction workers, railroad and factory workers, miners, foundation men, welders, and the builders of the Empire State Building.

Hybrid Humans

Hybrid Humans
Author: Harry Parker
Publisher: Profile Books
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2022-02-17
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1782835830

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 BARBELLION PRIZE* As heard on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week As seen on Sky Arts Book Club with Elizabeth Day and Andi Oliver An eye-opening account of disability, identity, and how robotics and AI are altering our understanding of what it means to be human - from the bestselling author of Anatomy of a Soldier Harry Parker's life changed overnight, when he lost his legs to an IED in Afghanistan. That took him into an often surprising landscape of a very human kind of hacking, and he wondered, are all humans becoming hybrids? Parker introduces us to the exhilarating breadth of human invention - and intervention. Grappling with his own new identity and disability, he discovers the latest robotics, tech and implants that might lead us to powerful, liberating possibilities for what a body can be. 'I loved Hybrid Humans. A way of looking at the future without nostalgia for the past' - Jeanette Winterson

The Female Brain

The Female Brain
Author: Louann Brizendine, MD
Publisher: Harmony
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2007-08-07
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0767928415

Since Dr. Brizendine wrote The Female Brain ten years ago, the response has been overwhelming. This New York Times bestseller has been translated into more than thirty languages, has sold nearly a million copies between editions, and has most recently inspired a romantic comedy starring Whitney Cummings and Sofia Vergara. And its profound scientific understanding of the nature and experience of the female brain continues to guide women as they pass through life stages, to help men better understand the girls and women in their lives, and to illuminate the delicate emotional machinery of a love relationship. Why are women more verbal than men? Why do women remember details of fights that men can’t remember at all? Why do women tend to form deeper bonds with their female friends than men do with their male counterparts? These and other questions have stumped both sexes throughout the ages. Now, pioneering neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine, M.D., brings together the latest findings to show how the unique structure of the female brain determines how women think, what they value, how they communicate, and who they love. While doing research as a medical student at Yale and then as a resident and faculty member at Harvard, Louann Brizendine discovered that almost all of the clinical data in existence on neurology, psychology, and neurobiology focused exclusively on males. In response to the overwhelming need for information on the female mind, Brizendine established the first clinic in the country to study and treat women’s brain function. In The Female Brain, Dr. Brizendine distills all her findings and the latest information from the scientific community in a highly accessible book that educates women about their unique brain/body/behavior. The result: women will come away from this book knowing that they have a lean, mean, communicating machine. Men will develop a serious case of brain envy.