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Author Steier, David M

Title Mind Matters : a Tribute To Allen Newell
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (489 pages)
Series Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition Series
Carnegie Mellon Symposia on Cognition Series
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; 1 The Evolution of the Soar Cognitive Architecture; 2 The Study of Cognitive Architecture; Discussion. Architecture Matters: What Soar Has to Say About Modularity; 3 Learning Analytically and Inductively; Discussion. Learning Matters; 4 Meaning Matters: Problems in Sense Resolution; Discussion. Meaning Matters: Response to Miller; 5 Constraints on Processing Capacity: Architectural or Implementational?; Discussion. Functionality Matters: Capacity Constraints and Soar
6 Great and Big Ideas in Computer StructuresDiscussion. Parallelism Matters; 7 Software Architectures for Shared Information Systems; Discussion. Mediating Matters: Response to Shaw; 8 The Human, the Computer, the Task, and Their Interaction-Analytic Models and Use-Centered Design; Discussion. Task Matters; 9 Scientific Discovery Processes in Children, Adults, and Machines; Discussion. Development Matters; 10 The Process of Deduction; Discussion. Reasoning Matters: Mental Models and Soar; 11 The Patterned Matter That Is Mind; About the Authors; Author Index; Subject Index
Summary Based on a symposium honoring the extensive work of Allen Newell -- one of the founders of artificial intelligence, cognitive science, human-computer interaction, and the systematic study of computational architectures -- this volume demonstrates how unifying themes may be found in the diversity that characterizes current research on computers and cognition. The subject matter includes: * an overview of cognitive and computer science by leading researchers in the field; * a comprehensive description of Allen Newell's ""Soar""--A computational architecture he developed as a unifi
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Subject Newell, Allen
SUBJECT Newell, Allen fast
Subject Cognition -- Congresses
Cognitive psychology -- Philosophy -- Congresses
Cognitive science -- Philosophy -- Congresses
Cognition
Cognitive psychology -- Philosophy
Cognitive science -- Philosophy
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Mitchell, Tom M
ISBN 9781317781257
1317781252