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1 @misc{jmonkeyengine,2 howpublished = "\url{http://hub.jmonkeyengine.org/}",3 title = "jMonkeyEngine3",4 year = 2013,5 addendum = {\why{This is the video game engine on which {\tt CORTEX}6 is based.}}7 }9 @misc{blender,10 howpublished = "\url{http://www.blender.org/}",11 title = "Blender",12 year = 2013,13 addendum = {\why{All complicated creatures in {\tt CORTEX} are14 described using Blender's extensive 3D modeling15 capabilities. Blender is a very sophisticated 3D16 modeling environment and has been used to create a17 short movie called Sintel \url{http://www.sintel.org/}.}}18 }20 @inproceedings{winston-directed-perception,21 author = "Patrick Henry Winston",22 title = "The Strong Story Hypothesis and the Directed Perception Hypothesis",23 booktitle = "Technical Report FS-11-01, Papers from the AAAI Fall Symposium",24 publisher = "AAAI Press",25 address = "Menlo Park, CA",26 year = "2011",27 editor = "Pat Langley",28 pages ="345--352",29 note = "Available as: \url{http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/67693}",30 addendum = {\why{Discusses an idea called the {\em directed31 perception hypothesis}, which argues that much of32 our intelligence resides in our senses themselves,33 and our ability to direct their resources on34 imagined problems. This has had the greatest35 influence on {\tt CORTEX}.}}36 }38 @article{winston-personal-view,39 author = "Patrick Henry Winston",40 title = {The Next 50 Years: a Personal View},41 journal = {Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures},42 year = {2012},43 volume = "1",44 pages ="92--99",45 note = {Available as :46 \url{http://groups.csail.mit.edu/genesis/papers/2012bica-phw}},47 addendum = {\why{Great summary of historical attempts at AI, and more48 thoughts on how directed perception and mimicry as49 in {\tt EMPATH} might play an important role in50 intelligence.}}51 }53 @article{sims-evolving-creatures,54 author = "Karl Sims",55 title = "Evolving Virtual Creatures",56 journal = "Computer Graphics (Siggraph '94 Proceedings)",57 year = "1994",58 month = "7",59 pages = "15--22",60 note = "Available as: \url{http://www.karlsims.com/papers/siggraph94.pdf}",61 addendum = {\why{Karl Sims uses a simulated virtual environment62 similar to {\tt CORTEX} to study the evolution of a63 set of creatures as they develop to perform various64 tasks such as swimming or competing for a ball. His65 code only ran on the Connection Machine (CM-5),66 which sadly doesn't exist anymore. {\tt CORTEX}67 presents an opportunity to continue this line of68 research.}},69 }71 @INPROCEEDINGS{volume-action-recognition,72 author={Yan Ke and Sukthankar, R. and Hebert, M.},73 title={Efficient visual event detection using volumetric features},74 year={2005},75 month={10},76 volume={1},77 pages={166-173 Vol. 1},78 note = {\url{http://www.intel-research.net/Publications/Pittsburgh/092620050705_320.pdf}},79 booktitle={Computer Vision, 2005. ICCV 2005. Tenth IEEE International Conference},80 addendum = {\why{This is an example of using frame-dependent methods81 to detect actions in video. I consider this to be82 the wrong language for describing actions, because83 it has no way to completely describe even a simple84 action like ``curling'' from all points of view.}}85 }87 @book{man-wife-hat,88 author = "Oliver Sacks",89 publisher = "Simon and Schuster",90 year = "1998",91 title = "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales",92 ISBN = "9780330700580",93 addendum = {\why{This book describes exotic cases where the human94 mind goes wrong. The section on proprioception is95 particularly relevant to this thesis, and one of the96 best explanations of how important proprioception97 is, though the eyes of someone who has lost the98 sense.}}99 }101 @article{turing-test,102 title={Computing machinery and intelligence},103 author={Turing, Alan M.},104 journal={Mind},105 pages={433--460},106 year={1950},107 publisher={Thomas Nelson and Son, Ltd.},108 note = {Available as: \url{http://www.csee.umbc.edu/courses/471/papers/turing.pdf}},109 addendum = {\why{The original paper that inspired the Turing test.110 It's important because in it Turing states that we111 don't have to care about the ``hand'' part of ``mind112 and hand'', using the example of Helen Keller as113 motivation. I think that this is a mistake, and that114 embodiment is critical to intelligence.}}115 }117 @book{textbook901,118 author="Bear and Mark F. and Barry W. Connors and Michael A.",119 title="Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain.",120 publisher="Lippincott Williams \& Wilkins",121 edition="3rd Edition",122 year="2006",123 ISBN = "9780781760034",124 addendum={\why{This is the introductory textbook to 9.01. It125 provides a good introduction to all major human126 senses.}}127 }129 @article{brooks-representation,130 author = {Brooks, Rodney A.},131 title = {Intelligence Without Representation},132 journal = {Artificial Intelligence},133 volume = {47},134 number = {1-3},135 month = {2},136 year = {1991},137 pages = {139--159},138 publisher = {Elsevier Science Publishers Ltd.},139 address = {Essex, UK},140 note = {Available at :141 \url{http://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/papers/representation.pdf}},142 addendum = {\why{Presents an argument that simulation will not be enough143 to develop artificial intelligence, and that we must144 rely on the real world and robots if we are to build145 truly robust systems. While {\tt CORTEX} embraces146 simulation because of Time, this paper remains a147 compelling argument for why the entire enterprise148 might not even be a good idea.}}149 }152 @article{quake-place-cells,153 author = {Christopher D. Harvey and Forrest Collman and Daniel A. Dombec and David W. Tank},154 title = {Intracellular dynamics of hippocampal place cells during virtual navigation},155 journal = {Nature},156 volume = {461},157 month = {8},158 pages = {941-946},159 note = {Available at :\\160 \burl{http://papers.cnl.salk.edu/PDFs/Intracelllular Dynamics of Virtual Place Cells 2011-4178.pdf}},161 addendum = {\why{Researchers at Princeton created a special Quake II162 level that simulated a maze, and added an interface163 where a mouse could run on top of a ball in various164 directions to move the character in the simulated165 maze. They measured hippocampal activity during this166 exercise to try and tease out the method in which167 spatial data was stored in that area of the brain. I168 find this promising because it shows that simulated169 worlds are still clear enough for a simple rat to170 navigate --- they don't just have meaning from our171 own highly advanced imaginations. I want to see if a172 rat can reasonably grow up if it lives its entire173 life hooked up to the game!}}174 }177 @mastersthesis{larson-symbols,178 author = "Larson, Stephen David",179 title = "Intrinsic representation : bootstrapping symbols from experience",180 school = "MIT",181 year = "2003",182 note = "Available at: \url{http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/28462}",183 addendum = {\why{This is an example of a thesis that I think could184 be improved with {\tt CORTEX}. Larson uses a simple185 blocks world simulator to explore using186 self-organizing maps to bootstrap symbols just from187 exploration with a simulated arm and colored blocks.}}188 }190 @phdthesis{sussman-hacker,191 author = "Sussman, Gerald J.",192 title = "A Computational Model of Skill Acquisition",193 school = "MIT",194 year = "1973",195 note = "Available at: \url{http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6894}",196 addendum = {\why{Sussman creates a program called {\tt HACKER},197 which operates in a blocks world environment and198 learns to debug programs to build things with blocks199 and control its own body. This sort of approach to200 problem solving is begging to be implemented in {\tt201 CORTEX}'s rich world. Will program debugging still202 work well with many more senses and a more203 complicated environment?}}204 }206 @phdthesis{coen-x-modal,207 author = "Coen, Michael Harlan",208 title = "Multimodal dynamics : self-supervised learning in perceptual and motor systems",209 school = "MIT",210 year = "2006",211 note = "Available at: \url{http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/34022}",212 addendum = {\why{This thesis shows how to use multiple senses to213 mutually bootstrap off of each other and achieve214 clustering results that no sense could be able to215 achieve alone. Cross-modal clustering becomes more216 powerful the more senses it has, and is ideal to217 implement in an environment such as {\tt CORTEX}'s.}}218 }220 @book{Minsky:1986:SM:22939,221 author = {Minsky, Marvin},222 title = {The Society of Mind},223 year = {1986},224 isbn = {0-671-60740-5},225 publisher = {Simon \& Schuster, Inc.},226 address = {New York, NY, USA},227 note = "Available at: \url{http://aurellem.org/society-of-mind}",228 addendum = {\why{Society of Mind has amazing idea density and is full229 of good and bad ideas. It's one of the main inspirations230 for {\tt CORTEX}.}}231 }233 @phdthesis{push,234 author = "Singh, Pushpinder",235 title = "EM-ONE : an architecture for reflective commonsense thinking",236 school = "MIT",237 year = "2005",238 note = "Available at: \url{http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/33926}",239 addendum = {\why{Inspired by Minsky's work, Singh sought to build a simulated240 environment where his creatures could learn to solve problems241 together. The code has similar concepts to \(\Phi\)-space in that242 he collects all of a creature's past experience into a vector.}}243 }245 @phdthesis{arm,246 author = "Atkeson, Christopher Granger",247 title = "Roles of knowledge in motor learning",248 school = "MIT",249 year = "1986",250 note = "Available at: \url{http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/29195}",251 addendum = {\why{The author builds a robotic arm that can rapidly learn a252 rigid body model of itself, then refine its motions by253 practicing and gaining real-world experience. This idea of254 using real-world experience to guide actions helped inspire255 {\tt EMPATH}.}}256 }