Author(s): Yelena Saparina
Publisher: Mir Publishers
Year: 1966
Language: English
City: Moscow
Tags: computer science; computation; artificial intelligence; robotics; algorithms
Front Cover
Title Page
AUTHOR’S PREFACE
BY WAY OF AN INTRODUCTION
CONTENTS
I. DISEASES OF MEN AND “DISEASES” OF MACHINES
Cybernetics and the Heart
Electronic Doctor
The Equations of Health
Feedback and Physiology
II. ONE HUNDRED MILLION MILLION AUTOMATIC UNITS WITHIN US
Spades, Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts
Protein Alphabet
Machines of Life
Line-Up of Molecules
Our “ Central Heating” System
Beehive Cybemeties
Body Communication Systems
Living Automation
III. LABORATORY OF THINKING
Mapping the Brain
Neural Architecture
Telephone Exchange?
Step Search
Guessing Game
Cybernetic Training
King For a Day
Terra Incognita
A Brain Within the Brain
“ Alarm Clock” and “ Chronometer”
Pleasure Centre
Reflex Circuitry
Voices of Neurons
Neuron Junctions
The Boons of Redundancy
Electronic Brains
IV. IF MACHINES WENT TO SCHOOL--------
“ Insect” Machines
“ Vertebrate” Machines
Guessing Games for the Brain
Switches and Controllers
A Vicious Circle
How to Teach a Machine
Of Cats and Martians
V. PERCEPTION IN MACHINES
Television in the Brain
Behind the Screen
Seeing Machines
Hearing and Talking Machines
A Signal of Signals
Transmission Capacity of the Brain
Language and Information
Machine Language
Is Strict Logic Necessary?
Algorithms of Learning
From a Machine’s Point of View
INDEX
Back Cover
