Cybernetics Today: Achievements, Challenges, Prospects

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Front Cover Title Page Contents Preface Note from the Compiler From Discussions of Different Years Automata and Life A. N. KOLMOGOROV What Is Life? Is Artificial Intelligence Feasible? Is Thought Discrete or Continuous? What Is Very Many? Caution, We Are Going too Far! Why the Extremes Only? Cybernetics and Language Materialism Is the Thing Cybernetics Today B. N. PETROV Where Is Cybernetics Heading? M. G. GAAZE-RAPOPORT Cybernetics and the computer. Simulation, or modelling, Structuring and formalizing knowledge. The State of the Art Cybernetics and Practice O. M. BELOTSERKOVSKY Ways of Developing Automation I. A. APOKIN The Emergence of Computer Networks K. A. YAKUBAITIS The Robots in Present-Day Industry I. M. MAKAROV Artificial Intelligence: Pros and Cons New Approach to Computer Application G. S. POSPELOV Why Artificial Intelligence? M. M. BOTVINNIK Occupation and Problem Oriented Intelligent Systems D. A. POSPHLOV Why Artificial Intelligence Is Impossible A. V. BRUSHLINSKY Relative Capabilities of Natural and Artificial Intelligence V. S. TYUKHTIN On the Capabilities of Artificial Intelligence B. V. BIRYUKOV On Some Control Problems Semiotic Models in Control Systems D. A. POSPELOV Systems Analysis and Artificial Intelligence for Planning and Management G. S. POSPELOV A New Branch of Economy: Information Handling Industry V. M. GLUSHKOV and Yu. M. KANYGIN The Fine Arts and Cybernetics Cybernetics and Culture B. V. BIRYUKOV and S. N. PLOTNIKOV Modelling in Music R. Kh. ZARIPOV Polemics and Its By-Products: About the “Machine Creativeness” Controversy I. GREKOVA From a New Angle Man-Machine Interaction G. L. SMOLYAN Man and Machine: The Limits to Computer Application V. M. GLUSHKOV and Yu. M. KANYGIN Social Applications of Cybernetics V. D. PEKELIS Foreseeing the Future The Formula of a Collective Genius V. D. PEKELIS How to Create an Artificial Brain F. G. STAROS How to Create an Optical Brain V. M. ZAKHARCHENKO and G. V. SKROTSKY The Cybernetic Double I. M. ROSOKITOVATSKY and A. A. STOGNY Extraterrestrial Civilizations and Artificial Intelligence I. S. SHKLOVSKY Cybernetics and the Computer: Some Predictions V. D. PEKELIS About the Authors Back Cover