artificial intelligence

Discusses recent advancements in robot technology and provides overviews and photos of some of the most interesting and advanced robots and robot engineers.

Discusses the unity among Johann Sebastian Bach's multifaceted compositions, graphic artist M.C. Escher's paradoxical drawings, and the mathematical concepts of Kurt Godel, exploring the Strange Loop phenomenon that occurs in all their work, in which moving upwards or downwards through the levels of a hierarchical system leads right back to the beginning.

Turing Hopper, an artificial intelligence personality, must come up with a plan to clear her human friend Tim's name when he is nabbed for murder while trying to help Turing investigate unusual charges on the long-inactive credit card of criminal mastermind Nestor Garcia.

Describes ways that molecular technology could radically change medicine, consumer products, and other areas of daily life in the twenty-first century, as well as speed recovery from natural disasters.

Explains why people have begun to rely on machines instead of other people and discusses how this has affected society, how people can learn to depend on the physical world instead of the digital world, and other related topics.

Robber Jack Giffey gets caught up in a battle between two artificial intelligences in the future world of 2050 when he decides to break into Omphalos, the most secure building in Green Idaho, in an attempt to discover what is causing the population of the United States to go insane.

Chronicles the journey man has taken towards creating a machine with a mind including the pioneering experiments of the 1940s; the current projects in development; and the social, economic, and political implications of success.

Explores the connection between humans and robots, explaining how this relationship is being redefined as humans develop increasingly complex machines.

Still trapped at the Higher Institute of Villainous Education, or H.I.V.E., evil-genius-in-training Otto Malpense is nearly assassinated and must now not only try to escape, but also find out who murdered his best friend--and save himself.

Describes the technology of artificial intelligence and the efforts by scientists to build machines that can see, hear, talk, and understand.