Computing with Instinct Rediscovering Artificial Intelligence
Simplicity in nature is the ultimate sophistication. The world's magnificence has been enriched by the inner drive of instincts, the profound drive of our everyday life. Instinct is an inherited behavior that responds to environmental stimuli. Instinctive
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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
5897
Yang Cai (Ed.)
Computing with Instinct Rediscovering Artificial Intelligence
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Series Editors Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Wolfgang Wahlster, DFKI and University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editor Yang Cai Carnegie Mellon University CYLAB - Instinctive Computing Lab CIC-2218, 4720 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA E-mail: [email protected]
ISSN 0302-9743 e-ISSN 1611-3349 ISBN 978-3-642-19756-7 e-ISBN 978-3-642-19757-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-19757-4 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011922330 CR Subject Classification (1998): H.5, I.2, F.1.1, I.6, K.4 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence
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Cover Photo. The autonomous vehicle was tested at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh campus, where the Instinctive Computing Workshop was held on June 9–10, 2009. The vehicle is designed to sense roads and avoid collisions instinctually.
Preface
Simplicity in nature is the ultimate sophistication. Honey bees are not able to play chess or solve the Tower of Hanoi puzzle; however, they do know how to build, defend, forage, navigate, and communicate for survival. They can even learn to recognize human letters independent of size, color, position, or font. Instinct is an inherited behavior that responds to particular environmental stimuli. In his book On the Origin of Species, Darwin pointed out that no complex instinct can possibly be produced through natural selection, except by the slow and gradual accumulation of numerous, slight, yet profitable, variations. Darwin also concluded that no one would dispute that instincts are of the highest importance to every animal species. The world’s magnificence has been enriched by the inner drive of instincts, perhaps the most profound drive of our everyday life. Instinctive Computing is a computational s
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