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author Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu>
date Sun, 30 Mar 2014 00:21:50 -0400
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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} are
14 described using Blender's extensive 3D modeling
15 capabilities.}}
16 }
18 @inproceedings{winston-directed-perception,
19 author = "Patrick Henry Winston",
20 title = "The Strong Story Hypothesis and the Directed Perception Hypothesis",
21 booktitle = "Technical Report FS-11-01, Papers from the AAAI Fall Symposium",
22 publisher = "AAAI Press",
23 address = "Menlo Park, CA",
24 year = "2011",
25 editor = "Pat Langley",
26 pages ="345--352",
27 note = "Available as: \url{http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/67693}",
28 addendum = {\why{Discusses an idea called the {\em directed
29 perception hypothesis}, which argues that much of
30 our intelligence resides in our senses themselves,
31 and our ability to direct their resources on
32 imagined problems. This has had the greatest
33 influence on {\tt CORTEX}.}}
34 }
36 @article{winston-personal-view,
37 author = {Patrick Henry Winston},
38 title = {The Next 50 Years: a Personal View},
39 journal = {Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures},
40 year = {2012},
41 volume = "1",
42 pages ="92--99",
43 note = {Available as :
44 \url{http://groups.csail.mit.edu/genesis/papers/2012bica-phw}},
45 addendum = {\why{Great summary of historical attempts at AI, and more
46 thoughts on how directed perception and mimicry as
47 in {\tt EMPATH} might play an important role in
48 intelligence.}}
49 }
51 @article{sims-evolving-creatures,
52 author = "Karl Sims",
53 title = "Evolving Virtual Creatures",
54 journal = "Computer Graphics (Siggraph '94 Proceedings)",
55 year = "1994",
56 month = "7",
57 pages = "15--22",
58 note = "Available as: \url{http://www.karlsims.com/papers/siggraph94.pdf}",
59 addendum = {\why{Karl Sims uses a simulated virtual environment
60 similar to {\tt CORTEX} to study the evolution of a
61 set of creatures as they develop to perform various
62 tasks such as swimming or competing for a ball. His
63 code only ran on the Connection Machine (CM-5),
64 which sadly doesn't exist anymore. {\tt CORTEX}
65 presents an opportunity to continue this line of
66 research.}},
67 }
69 @INPROCEEDINGS{volume-action-recognition,
70 author={Yan Ke and Sukthankar, R. and Hebert, M.},
71 title={Efficient visual event detection using volumetric features},
72 year={2005},
73 month={10},
74 volume={1},
75 pages={166-173 Vol. 1},
76 note = {\url{http://www.intel-research.net/Publications/Pittsburgh/092620050705_320.pdf}},
77 booktitle={Computer Vision, 2005. ICCV 2005. Tenth IEEE International Conference},
78 addendum = {\why{This is an example of using frame-dependent methods
79 to detect actions in video. I consider this to be
80 the wrong language for describing actions, because
81 it has no way to completely describe even a simple
82 action like ``curling'' form all points of view.}}
83 }
85 @book{man-wife-hat,
86 author = "Oliver Sacks",
87 publisher = "Simon and Schuster",
88 year = "1998",
89 title = "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales",
90 ISBN = "9780330700580",
91 addendum = {\why{This book describes exoitic cases where the human
92 mind goes wrong. The section on proprioception is
93 particurally relevant to this thesis, and one of the
94 best explinations of how important proprioception
95 is, though the eyes of someone who has lost the
96 sense.}}
97 }
99 @article{turing-test,
100 title={Computing machinery and intelligence},
101 author={Turing, Alan M.},
102 journal={Mind},
103 pages={433--460},
104 year={1950},
105 publisher={Thomas Nelson and Son, Ltd.},
106 note = {Available as: \url{http://www.csee.umbc.edu/courses/471/papers/turing.pdf}},
107 addendum = {\why{The original paper that inspired the Turing test.
108 It's important because in it Turing states that we
109 don't have to care about the ``hand'' part of ``mind
110 and hand'', using the example of Helen Keller as
111 motivation. I think that this is a mistake, and that
112 embodiment is critical to intelligence.}}
113 }
115 @book{9.01-textbook,
116 author="Bear and Mark F. and Barry W. Connors and Michael A.",
117 title="Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain.",
118 publisher="Lippincott Williams \& Wilkins",
119 edition="3rd Edition",
120 year="2006",
121 ISBN = "9780781760034",
122 addendum={\why{This is the introductory textbook to 9.01. It
123 provides a good introduction to all major human
124 senses.}}
125 }
127 @article{brooks-representation,
128 author = {Brooks, Rodney A.},
129 title = {Intelligence Without Representation},
130 journal = {Artificial Intelligence},
131 volume = {47},
132 number = {1-3},
133 month = {2},
134 year = {1991},
135 pages = {139--159},
136 publisher = {Elsevier Science Publishers Ltd.},
137 address = {Essex, UK},
138 note = {Available at :
139 \url{http://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/papers/representation.pdf}},
140 addendum = {\why{Presents an argument that simulation will not be enough
141 to develop artificial intelligence, and that we must
142 rely on the real world and robots if we are to build
143 truly robust systems. While {\tt CORTEX} embraces
144 simulation because of TIme, this paper remains a
145 compelling argument for why the entire enterprise
146 might not even be a good idea.}}
147 }
149 @mastersthesis{larson-symbols,
150 author = "Larson, Stephen David",
151 title = "Intrinsic representation : bootstrapping symbols from experience",
152 school = "MIT",
153 year = "2003",
154 note = "Available at: \url{http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/28462}",
155 addendum = {\why{This is an example of a thesis that I think could
156 be improved with {\tt CORTEX}. Larson uses a simple
157 blocks world simulator to explore using
158 self-organizing maps to bootstrap symbols just from
159 exploration with a simule arm and colored blocks.}}
160 }
162 @phdthesis{sussman-hacker,
163 author = "Sussman, Gerald J.",
164 title = "A Computational Model of Skill Acquisition",
165 school = "MIT",
166 year = "1973",
167 note = "Available at: \url{http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6894}",
168 addendum = {\why{Sussman creates a program called {\tt HACKER},
169 which operates in a blocks world environment and
170 learns to debug programs to build things with blocks
171 and control its own body. This sort of approach to
172 problem solving is begging to be implemented in {\tt
173 CORTEX}'s rich world. Will program debugging still
174 work well with many more senses and a more
175 complicated environement?}}
176 }
178 @phdthesis{coen-x-modal,
179 author = "Coen, Michael Harlan",
180 title = "Multimodal dynamics : self-supervised learning in perceptual and motor systems",
181 school = "MIT",
182 year = "2006",
183 note = "Available at: \url{http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/34022}",
184 addendum = {\why{This thesis shows how to use multiple senses to
185 mutually bootstrap off of each other and achieve
186 clustering results that no sense could be able to
187 achieve alone. Cross-modal clustering becomes more
188 powerful the more senses it has, and is ideal to
189 implement in an environment such as {\tt CORTEX}'s.}}
190 }