COMP 150 ECP - Links of interest

• Paper on Zipf exponent of introns
• Article on variations of the Turing test
• IBM project to simulate cognitive processes
• New Scientist article on a Bayesian model of the brain
• New Scientist article on evolving robots
• Technology Review article on Lamarckian evolution
• Wired article about a genetic program discovering laws of physics
• Turing test prize contest
• Boston University conference on consciousness
• New Scientist article about human echolocation
• Time.com article on "junk" DNA
• Biovisions video of proteins in a cell
• Wetware: book on biology as computation
• Unknown Quantity: book on the history of algebra and symbol systems
• The Most Human Human: book about one person's experience being a human in a Turing test
• Stephen Hawking on the brain in a computer
• Two relevant comic strips: one and two
• NY Times article about "Probably Approximately Correct" by Leslie Valiant
• The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Douglas S. Robertson at UC Boulder (click on the Philosophy of Science link)
• Robertson's Complexity article Algorithmic Information Theory, Free Will, and the Turing Test
• How to Create a Mind by Ray Kurzweil
• Springer eBook on Theoretical Foundations of Artificial General Intelligence edited by Pei Wang and Ben Goertzel
• Springer eBook on Computers and Creativity edited by Jon McCormack and Mark d'Inverno
• Consciousness in Human and Robot Minds , 1994 paper by Dan Dennett