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Interesting Stuff for Download
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- John von Neumann's, "First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC", June 1945. The linked version is a searchable version of how it appeared in a 1993 publication. And here is a scanned version of the 1945 report as it was produced.
- W. Grey Walter's first tortoise paper, "An Imitation of Life", Scientific Ameraican, 182(5), May 1950, 42--45.
- W. Grey Walter's second tortoise paper, "A Machine That Learns", Scientific Ameraican, 185(2), August 1951, 60--63.
- Dartmouth 1956 Summer AI Project, Funding Proposal, 1955, possibly the first use of "artifcial intelligence".
- The Summer Vision Project, MIT AI Memo 100, 1966.
- Arthur Samuel's paper on playing checkers, 1959, where he introduced the term "Machine Learning".
- Donald Michie's second paper on playing tic-tac-toe, 1963, where he introduced the term "Reinforcement Learning".
- Martin Gardner's column in Scientific American ruminating on Michie's matchbox computer, 1963, March.
- Alan Turing's introduction of the Turing Machine "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem", November 1936.
- Original version of Alan Turing's "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", 1950.
- Complete version of Alan Turing's "Intelligent Machinery", 1948, not published until 1970 in Machine Intelligence 5.
- Marvin Minsky's "Steps Toward Artificial Intelligence", 1961.
- Alonzo Church's "An Unsolvable Problem of Elementary Number Theory", 1936.
- Alonzo Church's "A Note on the Entscheidungsproblem", 1936.
- Ada Lovelace's
Translation of "Sketch of the Analytical Engine invented by
Charles Babbage, Esq.", by L. F. Menabrea of Turin, Officer of the
Military Engineers" in Scientific Memoirs, Selected from the
Transactions of Foreign Academies of Science and Learned Societies,
and from Foreign Journals, edited by Richard Taylor, Vol III, London, 1843, pp 666-731.
The file is the complete Volume of Scientific Memoirs. The Lovelace pages are pp 697-764 of the pdf.
She signs her substantial Notes A through G, as "A.L.L." for Augusta Leigh Lovelace. The foldout
with the annotated code (the world's first computer program!) for computing Bernoulli numbers
is mangled in the ped at pages 762 and 763, where it should be located between the numbered
pages 730 and 731. Here is a good scan of the fold out. In column 3 of line 4 the arguments
to divide are incorrectly reversed. This is the world's first software bug!!!
- Russell Andersson's ping pong playing industrial robot, 1987 (large: 5.5GB), thirty years ahead of media hype about doing this. This was his PhD thesis project at U Penn--I was his external committee member.
- Steven Jobs introducing the Macintosh, 1984.
- W. Grey Walter with his robot toroises, early 1950's.
- Douglas Engelbart's mother of all demos, introducing the mouse, cut and paste editing, text and graphics on a single screen, videoconferencing, etc., etc., December 9, 1968.
- Cynthia Breazeal's robot Kismet responding to prosody, 2000 (from her PhD defense as my student).
- Cynthia Breazeal's robot Kismet interacting with an experimental subject, 2000 (from her PhD defense as my student).
- Lionel Penrose (work with son Roger) self-reproducing wooden machines, part 1, 1957?
- Lionel Penrose (work with son Roger) self-reproducing wooden machines, part 2, 1961.
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