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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 }

     8 

     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. Blender is a very sophistaced 3D

    16                   modeling environment and has been used to create a

    17                   short movie called Sintel

    18                   \url{http://www.sintel.org/}}}

    19 }

    20 

    21 @inproceedings{winston-directed-perception, 

    22  author = "Patrick Henry Winston", 

    23  title = "The Strong Story Hypothesis and the Directed Perception Hypothesis", 

    24  booktitle = "Technical Report FS-11-01, Papers from the AAAI Fall Symposium", 

    25  publisher = "AAAI Press", 

    26  address = "Menlo Park, CA", 

    27  year = "2011", 

    28  editor = "Pat Langley", 

    29  pages ="345--352", 

    30  note = "Available as: \url{http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/67693}",

    31  addendum = {\why{Discusses an idea called the {\em directed

    32                   perception hypothesis}, which argues that much of

    33                   our intelligence resides in our senses themselves,

    34                   and our ability to direct their resources on

    35                   imagined problems. This has had the greatest

    36                   influence on {\tt CORTEX}.}}

    37 } 

    38 

    39 @article{winston-personal-view, 

    40  author = {Patrick Henry Winston}, 

    41  title = {The Next 50 Years: a Personal View}, 

    42  journal = {Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures}, 

    43  year = {2012}, 

    44  volume = "1",

    45  pages ="92--99", 

    46  note = {Available as :

    47           \url{http://groups.csail.mit.edu/genesis/papers/2012bica-phw}}, 

    48  addendum = {\why{Great summary of historical attempts at AI, and more

    49                   thoughts on how directed perception and mimicry as

    50                   in {\tt EMPATH} might play an important role in

    51                   intelligence.}}

    52 } 

    53 

    54 @article{sims-evolving-creatures,

    55   author = "Karl Sims",

    56   title  = "Evolving Virtual Creatures",

    57   journal = "Computer Graphics (Siggraph '94 Proceedings)",

    58   year = "1994",

    59   month = "7",

    60   pages = "15--22",

    61   note = "Available as: \url{http://www.karlsims.com/papers/siggraph94.pdf}",

    62   addendum = {\why{Karl Sims uses a simulated virtual environment

    63                   similar to {\tt CORTEX} to study the evolution of a

    64                   set of creatures as they develop to perform various

    65                   tasks such as swimming or competing for a ball. His

    66                   code only ran on the Connection Machine (CM-5),

    67                   which sadly doesn't exist anymore. {\tt CORTEX}

    68                   presents an opportunity to continue this line of

    69                   research.}},

    70 }

    71 

    72 @INPROCEEDINGS{volume-action-recognition,

    73   author={Yan Ke and Sukthankar, R. and Hebert, M.},

    74   title={Efficient visual event detection using volumetric features},

    75   year={2005},

    76   month={10},

    77   volume={1},

    78   pages={166-173 Vol. 1},

    79   note = {\url{http://www.intel-research.net/Publications/Pittsburgh/092620050705_320.pdf}},

    80   booktitle={Computer Vision, 2005. ICCV 2005. Tenth IEEE International Conference},

    81   addendum = {\why{This is an example of using frame-dependent methods

    82                   to detect actions in video. I consider this to be

    83                   the wrong language for describing actions, because

    84                   it has no way to completely describe even a simple

    85                   action like ``curling'' form all points of view.}}

    86 }

    87 

    88 @book{man-wife-hat,

    89   author = "Oliver Sacks",

    90   publisher = "Simon and Schuster",

    91   year = "1998",

    92   title = "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales",

    93   ISBN = "9780330700580",

    94   addendum = {\why{This book describes exoitic cases where the human

    95                   mind goes wrong. The section on proprioception is

    96                   particurally relevant to this thesis, and one of the

    97                   best explinations of how important proprioception

    98                   is, though the eyes of someone who has lost the

    99                   sense.}}

   100 }

   101 

   102 @article{turing-test,

   103   title={Computing machinery and intelligence},

   104   author={Turing, Alan M.},

   105   journal={Mind},

   106   pages={433--460},

   107   year={1950},

   108   publisher={Thomas Nelson and Son, Ltd.},

   109   note = {Available as: \url{http://www.csee.umbc.edu/courses/471/papers/turing.pdf}},

   110   addendum = {\why{The original paper that inspired the Turing test.

   111                   It's important because in it Turing states that we

   112                   don't have to care about the ``hand'' part of ``mind

   113                   and hand'', using the example of Helen Keller as

   114                   motivation. I think that this is a mistake, and that

   115                   embodiment is critical to intelligence.}}

   116 } 

   117 

   118 @book{9.01-textbook,

   119   author="Bear and Mark F. and Barry W. Connors and Michael A.",

   120   title="Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain.",

   121   publisher="Lippincott Williams \& Wilkins",

   122   edition="3rd Edition",

   123   year="2006",

   124   ISBN = "9780781760034",

   125   addendum={\why{This is the introductory textbook to 9.01. It

   126                   provides a good introduction to all major human

   127                   senses.}}

   128 }

   129 

   130 @article{brooks-representation,

   131  author = {Brooks, Rodney A.},

   132  title = {Intelligence Without Representation},

   133  journal = {Artificial Intelligence},

   134  volume = {47},

   135  number = {1-3},

   136  month = {2},

   137  year = {1991},

   138  pages = {139--159},

   139  publisher = {Elsevier Science Publishers Ltd.},

   140  address = {Essex, UK},

   141  note = {Available at :

   142          \url{http://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/papers/representation.pdf}},

   143  addendum = {\why{Presents an argument that simulation will not be enough

   144                   to develop artificial intelligence, and that we must

   145                   rely on the real world and robots if we are to build

   146                   truly robust systems. While {\tt CORTEX} embraces

   147                   simulation because of TIme, this paper remains a

   148                   compelling argument for why the entire enterprise

   149                   might not even be a good idea.}}

   150 }

   151 

   152 @mastersthesis{larson-symbols,

   153   author = "Larson, Stephen David",

   154   title = "Intrinsic representation : bootstrapping symbols from experience",

   155   school = "MIT",

   156   year = "2003",

   157   note = "Available at: \url{http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/28462}",

   158   addendum = {\why{This is an example of a thesis that I think could

   159                   be improved with {\tt CORTEX}. Larson uses a simple

   160                   blocks world simulator to explore using

   161                   self-organizing maps to bootstrap symbols just from

   162                   exploration with a simule arm and colored blocks.}}

   163 }

   164 

   165 @phdthesis{sussman-hacker,

   166   author = "Sussman, Gerald J.",

   167   title = "A Computational Model of Skill Acquisition",

   168   school = "MIT",

   169   year = "1973",

   170   note = "Available at: \url{http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6894}",

   171   addendum = {\why{Sussman creates a program called {\tt HACKER},

   172                   which operates in a blocks world environment and

   173                   learns to debug programs to build things with blocks

   174                   and control its own body. This sort of approach to

   175                   problem solving is begging to be implemented in {\tt

   176                   CORTEX}'s rich world. Will program debugging still

   177                   work well with many more senses and a more

   178                   complicated environement?}}

   179 }

   180 

   181 @phdthesis{coen-x-modal,

   182   author = "Coen, Michael Harlan",

   183   title = "Multimodal dynamics : self-supervised learning in perceptual and motor systems",

   184   school = "MIT",

   185   year = "2006",

   186   note = "Available at: \url{http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/34022}",

   187   addendum = {\why{This thesis shows how to use multiple senses to

   188                   mutually bootstrap off of each other and achieve

   189                   clustering results that no sense could be able to

   190                   achieve alone. Cross-modal clustering becomes more

   191                   powerful the more senses it has, and is ideal to

   192                   implement in an environment such as {\tt CORTEX}'s.}}

   193 }

   194
author	Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu>
date	Sun, 30 Mar 2014 01:07:19 -0400
parents	f648f8cc3b63
children	ced955c3c84f