Budi’s proposal peer reviewed
Please find the peer reviewed rubric for Budi’s proposal here.
Please find the peer reviewed rubric for Budi’s proposal here.
Though its still a shitty state, I’m uploading my final draft. Please download it from here.
Please find the peer reviewed rubric for Asim’s proposal here.
Research on latest developmental work on agent-based technologies.
How efficiently the agents work in a multi-agent based environment so as to facilitate “team-based” collaborative effort.
Future of these multi-agents in the development of artificial brain.
In multi-agent systems, an agent needs to reason about its beliefs, goals, desires, intentions, and those of others, in order to make informed and context-dependent decisions about what actions to take.
Moreover, when an agent is situated in a multi-agent “society”, it should incorporate notions such as obligations and social norms into its reasoning.
Work involves developing new models and techniques for capturing and specifying the interactions that take place between cooperative or competitive agents.
Conducts research on issues such as teamwork and collaboration, social and organisational issues, negotiation strategies, negotiation with incomplete and dynamic preferences, and interaction protocols.
Personality-Rich Believable Agents That Use Language
A. Bryan Loyall and Joseph Bates. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Autonomous Agents, pp. 106-113. Marina del Rey, CA. February 5-8, 1997.
Describes the integration of embodied natural language generation into a behavioral agent architecture. “We describe our approach, and show how it leads to agents with properties we believe important for believability, such as: using language and action together to accomplish communication goals; using perception to help make linguistic choices; varying generated text according to emotional state; varying generated text to express the specific personality; and issuing the text in real-time with pauses, restarts and other breakdowns visible.” This work is part of the Oz Project.
The return of artificial intelligence [Electronic version]. McKinsey Quarterly 4.
Booth, C. & Buluswar, S. (2002).
AI usage has become more prevalent in computing, business, military, and even medicine. The AI systems discussed in this annotated bibliography are used to create “thinking and learning” machines. These systems take computers beyond basic programming, but despite sophistication, these systems still do not approach the complexity of true intelligent thought.
Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
Antonio Damasio. Avon Books. 1994.
Describes recent research findings in neuropsychology which seem to indicate that emotion plays a fundamental role in human intelligence. Much of traditional cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence has assumed that emotion is not critical to understanding intelligence.
A Face Robot Able to Recognize and Produce Facial Expression
Fumio Hara and Hiroshi Kobayashi. Proceedings of the 1996 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Senri Life Science Center, Osaka, Japan, November 4-8, 1996, pp 1600-1607.
Describes a robot with a human-like face that can recognize and produce human facial expressions.
Buller, David J. (in preparation). Adapting Minds: Evolutionary Psychology and the Persistent Quest for Human Nature. Under contract with MIT Press/Bradford Books.
A comprehensive critical examination of the Evolutionary Psychology. Several chapters are devoted to investigating theoretical and empirical problems with each of the theoretical tenets of Evolutionary Psychology. Remaining chapters investigate methodological problems with Evolutionary Psychology’s most prominent explanatory exemplars concerning the psychology of mate choice, infidelity, jealousy, parental care, and social cooperation.
Deacon, Terrence W. (1997). The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain. New York: W. W. Norton & Co.
A fascinating and provocative work in the field of evolutionary psychology, but outside the Evolutionary Psychology paradigm. Deacon is focused on explaining the progressive increase in relative brain size in the hominid line, and he argues that it was a result of interactive coevolution with language. This book is notable for its strong challenge to the Chomskyan view that only an innate language organ can explain the ability to acquire a language.
Wills, Christopher (1998). Children of Prometheus: The Accelerating Pace of Human Evolution. Reading, MA: Perseus.
Wills argues that not only are humans continuing to evolve, but that human evolution is actually accelerating. He details a number of phenomena that are accelerating human evolution, most of them related to ways in which humans have altered their own environments (for example, through creating job stress and ever more virulent strains of infectious disease). Wills concludes with speculations about the future course of human evolution.
