Edward A. Feigenbaum

Citations

• “One was consciousness-raising in the Air Force about software. The one big report I wrote, at the end of my term, was a report called, It’s a Software-First World. The Air Force had not realized that. They probably still do not think that. They think it is an airframe-based world.”

• “The great thing about being retired is not that you work less hard, but that what you do is inner-directed. The world has so many things you want to know before you’re out of here that you have a lot to do.”

• “I’m talking about mysteries like the initiation and development of life. Equally mysterious is the emergence of intelligence. Stephen Hawking once asked, “Why does the universe even bother to exist?” You can ask the same question about intelligence. Why does intelligence even bother to exist?”

• “An ‘expert system’ is an intelligent computer program that uses knowledge and inference procedures to solve problems that are difficult enough to require significant human expertise for their solution.”

• “For the people who will be out there years from now, the question will be: will we have fully explicated the theory of thinking in your lifetime? It would be very interesting to see what you people of a hundred years from now know about all of this.”

Les livres de Edward A. Feigenbaum dans l'ordre

Les livres de Edward A. Feigenbaum dans l'ordre de parution, de An Information Processing Theory of Verbal Learning (1959) à Information Technology and Corporations (1995).

1. 1An Information Processing Theory of Verbal LearningAn Information Processing Theory of Verbal Learning1959
2. 2A Theory of the Serial Position EffectA Theory of the Serial Position Effect1961
3. 3Computers and ThoughtComputers and Thought1963
4. 4Computer Simulation of Human BehaviourComputer Simulation of Human Behaviour1964
5. 5The Fifth GenerationThe Fifth Generation1983
6. 6La cinquième générationLa cinquième génération1984
7. 7The Library of the FutureThe Library of the Future1986
8. 8The Rise of the Expert CompanyThe Rise of the Expert Company1988
9. 9Rise of Expert CompanyRise of Expert Company1990
10. 10Building Blocks of Artificial Intelligence, 1956-1986Building Blocks of Artificial Intelligence, 1956-19861993
11. 11JTEC Panel on Knowledge-based Systems in JapanJTEC Panel on Knowledge-based Systems in Japan1993
12. 12JTEC Panel Report on Knowledge-based Systems in JapanJTEC Panel Report on Knowledge-based Systems in Japan1993
13. 13Advanced Software Applications in JapanAdvanced Software Applications in Japan1995
14. 14Information Technology and CorporationsInformation Technology and Corporations1995