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	DIKE BLAIR \| Writing
		Moravec makes no claim to literal prophesy; however, the breathtaking beauty of his arguments and projections suggest that he is the Mark Twain of Vinge's analogy, and those who scoff at his ideas, the dog.
		Hans Moravec: A robot that moves around the physical world encounters objects and thus needs to have an internal representation of those objects in a place we can call its mind.
		Hans Moravec: The basic idea is that as the robots expand into space, the ones in the interior (around Earth) are surrounded by the space robots and they must compete, not through physical expansion but on the principle of their ideas being more interesting than their neighbors'.
	www.thing.net /~lilyvac/writing33.html (2426 words)

	Other Interviews - Hans Moravec
		Hans Moravec is the founder of the Mobile Robot Laboratory of Carnegie Mellon University, and directs the world's largest robotics program.
		Moravec envisions robot physicians in the future that will be able to repair virtually any type of damage to the human body.
		Hans: Well, the third generation is the stage in which you can interact with the robot in such a way that it can actually describe how it feels, because it plays scenarios in its head.
	www.mavericksofthemind.com /moravec.htm (13564 words)

	Hans Moravec - ScottWiki
		Hans Moravec has been obsessed with artificial intelligence and robots all his life - or at least, he is if building his own functional robot out of tin cans and batteries by age 10 counts as obsession.
		However, Moravec is arguably most famous not for his considerable research contributions, but for his writings on futurism and transhumanism.
		Moravec believes in the strong AI hypothesis; that is, that ultimately computers are capable of performing - or maybe even outperforming - humans in terms of their intelligence.
	fox.usask.ca /wiki/index.php?title=Hans_Moravec&printable=yes (385 words)

	disinformation \| moravec's dangerous idea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Moravec's imagination stretches beyond even these scenarios to embrace a future in which he depicts humanity being superseded by conscious AI robots who colonise the galaxy and permanently dethrone the Blind Watchmaker by harnessing and hyper-accelerating biological evolution's plodding place.
		Moravec likewise believes that humanity will be superseded, not by Spengler's superior Nature, but by his conscious robots.
		Central to Moravec's Vision is the visceral cyberpunk desire to escape the confines of the body and its accompanying messy sexuality (despite Rudy Rucker's assertion that teledildonics and artificial companions are future growth industries).
	www.disinfo.com /archive/pages/article/id1908/pg1 (1047 words)

	Scientific American: You, Robot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		When word got around that Hans Moravec had founded an honest-to-goodness robotics firm, more than a few eyebrows were raised.
		Moravec pulls an image up onto one of the two massive monitors that sit side by side on his desk, like great unblinking eyes.
		But those who know Moravec say it is no surprise: he is an unusual mix of whimsy, wild vision and rigorous pragmatism.
	www.sciam.com /print_version.cfm?articleID=00078A55-0CE7-11BF-AD0683414B7F0000 (1066 words)

	SS > NF reviews > Hans Moravec
		Moravec charts the history of intelligent robots, from the early research days of AI to today, then on to tomorrow and the distant future.
		Moravec points out that some of the reason for this lack of progress is that for several decades there was continually-reducing funding for AI research.
		Moravec appears to be claiming that all that's needed for intelligence is more power and better, but still "good old-fashioned AI" algorithms.
	www-users.cs.york.ac.uk /susan/bib/nf/m/moravec.htm (897 words)

	Wired 3.10: Superhumanism
		Hans Moravec reclines in his chair and places his palms against his chest.
		Today, Moravec is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, the largest robot research lab in the country and one he helped establish in 1980.
		Yet, according to Moravec, this is not something we should fear: it's the best thing we could hope for, the ultimate form of human transcendence.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/3.10/moravec.html (795 words)

	SciFan: Books: Robot: Mere Machine to transcend Mind by Hans P. Moravec (from our database of Fantasy & SF novels, ...
		Moravec, a professor of robotics at Carnegie Mellon University, envisions a not-too-distant future in which robots of superhuman intelligence have picked up the evolutionary baton from their human creators and headed out into space to colonize the universe.
		Moravec concludes by reminding us that even the wildest long-range predictions about the technological future never turn out to be as unhinged as they should have been.
		But even though Moravec predicts the end of the domination by human beings, his is not a bleak vision.
	www.scifan.com /titles/title.asp?TI_titleid=11118 (501 words)

	disinformation \| hans moravec (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Moravec, one of the leaders of robotics research, was a founder of the world's largest robotics program, at Carnegie Mellon University.
		Moravec outlines the future of Third and Fourth generation robots, and discusses potential applications in anti-terrorism and other spheres.
		Han's Moravec's homepage includes current research, publications and a vast project archive.
	www.disinfo.com /archive/pages/dossier/id208/pg1/index.html (406 words)

	Learn more about Hans Moravec in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Learn more about Hans Moravec in the online encyclopedia.
		Hans Moravec (U.S.) is known for his work on robotics, and writings on the impact of technology.
		Among other work, Moravec has developed techniques in machine vision for determining the region of interest in a scene.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /h/ha/hans_moravec.html (162 words)

	Emanuel Moravec. tschechischer Quisling im"Protektorat Böhmen und Mähren"
		Frank hatte Moravec interessiert beobachtet und Heydrich auf ihn aufmerksam gemacht - der ihm ein "Generalpardon" für alles erteilt, was Moravec vor 1938 gesagt und getan hatte.
		Ein besonders perfides Geschick bewies Moravec darin, altehrwürdige Blätter in seinem Sinne umzufunktionieren.
		Moravec flüchtete vor den Aufständischen in einem LKW zum Černín-Palais, dem Sitz des Reichsprotektors.
	www.shoa.de /p_emanuel_moravec.html (4544 words)

	Real Worlds Of Small Wonder: V.I.C.I.'s Real Grandfather, Hans Moravec
		In this case, though, Moravec's conclusion is less radical than it seems - because when many jobs are broken down into tasks, they require a relatively limited degree of "humanness." Even today, we have expert systems that offer advice based on a large number of facts in a field such as medicine or geology.
		Moravec feels that in a short period of time, all the local materials will be plundered and converted into machines, and all available solar energy will be used to power them.
		And Moravec's vision of a supremely powerful artificial intelligence that will love humanity enough to re-create it is basically a vision of a god - the only difference being that in his scheme of things, we create god version 1.0, after which it builds its own enhancements.
	members.surfbest.net /smallwonder@surfbest.net/RealWorlds/Moravec.html (6097 words)

	2006 Fast 50 -- Global Readers' Challenge
		As Chief Scientist for Seegrid, Hans Moravec is responsible for the company's technological vision and roadmap.
		Hans is an Adjunct Professor at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University where, prior to founding SEEGRID, he was a Research Professor and Director of the Mobile Robot Lab.
		Hans Moravec is a Research Professor in the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University.
	www.fastcompany.com /fast50_06/profile/index.html?moravec247 (747 words)

	frontwheeldrive.com: hans moravec interview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Hans Moravec has been building robots since 1963: his first at age ten.
		Moravec holds that a robot-reign is inevitable and that it won't be so bad...
		Hans Moravec is currently a Principal Research Scientist in the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University.
	frontwheeldrive.com /hans_moravec.html (573 words)

	Mind Children by Hans Moravec
		Hans Moravec is director of the Mobile Robot Laboratory of Carnegie Mellon University and has spent his time from his days as a graduate student investigating artificial intelligence.
		They are everywhere in process control and are taking the first steps in learning by being given likes and dislikes and the capacity for boredom (the gradual fade of learnt and recorded tasks in favour of new ones).
		Moravec builds up a convincing picture and along the way the reader gets to look at the 1972 ARPAnet breakdown caused by a spontaneous error (mutation) in a piece of data that went on to infect the whole network.
	www1.dragonet.es /users/markbcki/moravec.htm (442 words)

	Hans Moravec - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Among other work, Moravec has developed techniques in machine vision for determining the region of interest (ROI) in a scene.
		It should be noted that other ROI techniques exist, including the patents of Sherman de Forest (U.S.), and the machine vision / image processing articles by Sobel.
		Moravec was a cofounder of SEEGRID Corporation in 2003 which is a robotics company with one of its goals being to develop a fully autonomous robot capable of navigating its environment without human intervention.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hans_Moravec (387 words)

	Harvard University Press: Mind Children : The Future of Robot and Human Intelligence by Hans Moravec
		Moravec, by his own admission, is an intellectual joyrider, and riding his runaway trains of thought is an exhilarating experience...This is an intellectual party that shouldn't be pooped, no matter how much it may disturb the neighbours and encourage over-indulgence.
		Moravec has turned the flights of mind of one of the world's foremost roboticists into hard copy.
		A dizzying display of intellect and wild imaginings by Moravec, a world-class roboticist who has himself developed clever beasts...Undeniably, Moravec comes across as a highly knowledgeable and creative talent--which is just what the field needs.
	www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/MORMIX.html?show=reviews (228 words)

	Networking in the Mind Age - future of distributed intelligence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The advent of the Mind Age of intelligent robots envisioned by Hans Moravec will bring profound transformations in global social and technological structures and relations of an advanced intelligence to its environment.
		Its evolution will evade human control, but relations of descendants of humans and today's machines will be largely symbiotic and will lead to the emergence of a new ecology of intelligence.
		In his new book, "Mind Age: Transcendence Through Robots", Hans Moravec describes further stages in the evolution of the robotics industry, where each robot will learn from experience, adapt to changing environments and eventually acquire real intelligence approaching- and then exceeding - that of humans.
	www.lucifer.com /~sasha/mindage.html (4247 words)

	Amazon.com: Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind: Books: Hans Moravec (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Moravec dares to dream of a trillion-fingered medical robot whose molecular interventions allow it to act as diagnostic instrument, surgeon and medicine, and of quantum computers that make time travel conceivable.
		Moravec initial 3D map prototype constructed a 256x256x64 cell volume equating to 4 million plus cells; the prototype used three cameras, produced a stereoscopic range, and generated 5,000 evidence rays in 5 seconds.
		Moravec thinks that reflexive technology will accomplish its desired goal, however, states, "I think there is a faster route, on that imitates at a higher level of abstraction" referencing conditioning modeling.
	www.amazon.com /Robot-Mere-Machine-Transcendent-Mind/dp/0195136306 (4186 words)

	Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind
		Hans Moravec is. What's more, he's got the answer: Give up and accept your fate.
		Moravec, for example, insists that computers have, or at least will have, intelligence and something akin to consciousness.
		Although readers may disagree with his conclusions, Moravec's thoughts are worth reading for their insights into technology policy making and some of the possibilities of robotics.
	www.textbooksrus.com /search/bookdetail?isbn=0195136306 (816 words)

	Superhumanism--Interview with Hans Moravec by Charles Platt
		Moravec himself was raised Catholic, but he rebelled against it as a teenager and says he still has some anti-Catholic reflexes.
		As Moravec puts it, "We are their past, and they will be interested in us for the same reason that today we are interested in the origins of our own life on Earth."
		In person, Moravec seems diffident and gentle; he doesn't drive a car because, he says, he's uneasy with so much potentially dangerous mass in his control.
	www.primitivism.com /superhumanism.htm (6150 words)

	Edge: HANS MORAVEC
		HANS MORAVEC is a Principal Research Scientist in the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University.
		He has been thinking about machines thinking since he was a child in the 1950s, building his first robot, a construct of tin cans, batteries, lights and a motor, at age ten.
		He has published many papers in robotics, computer graphics, multiprocessors, space travel and other speculative areas.
	www.edge.org /3rd_culture/bios/moravec.html (211 words)

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		Also,' he says with amusement, 'they'll be able to use data compression to remove the redundant stuff that isn't important.' But by this logic, our current 'reality' could be nothing more than a simulation produced by information entities.
		Hans Moravec was a professor at Carnegie Mellon university's Robotics Institute who caused a lot of consternation with the book "Mind Children: The Future of the Robot and Human Intelligence," in which he predicted the rise of machines and extinction of humans.
		Title, headline, chapter name: Superhumanism: According to Hans Moravec, by 2040 Robots Will Become as Smart as We Are.
	www.elon.edu /predictions/prediction.aspx?id=JQA-1422 (516 words)

	3.10: Superhumanism
		By "brittleness" Moravec means that the system tended to fail suddenly and catastrophically.
		And so, according to Hans Moravec, the human race is almost certainly extinct, while the world around us is just an advanced version of SimCity.
		Growing up in Montreal, learning English and adjusting to a strange new culture, Hans Moravec was a solitary child who found solace in building models and gadgets.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/3.10/moravec_pr.html (6208 words)

	Robot (John's Book Pages) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		I liked Moravec's 1988 book, Mind Children, so I jumped at a chance to see him talk as part of UVa's "Digital Directions" series a few weeks ago.
		Of course the matter of programming them remains, but with massive computational power, brute force solutions could appear to be smart.
		Moravec cites Kasparov's sense of Deep Blue's intelligence during their matches last May -- Kasparov's feeling is the most compelling argument for Moravec's position that I've heard.
	books.regehr.org /reviews/robot.html (250 words)

	Foreign Affairs - Book Review - Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind - Hans P. Moravec
		A founder of Carnegie Mellon's world-class robotics program, Moravec treats his subject with the enthusiasm of a parent for his child, proclaiming that robots will replace human beings in a century or less.
		Even if the reader makes allowances for the author's excitement, statements like "the immensities of cyberspace will be teeming with unhuman superminds, engaged in affairs that are to human concerns as ours are to those of bacteria" seem a tad overblown.
		When it comes to computers that move and act, Moravec knows his subject -- despite his unqualified assertions about all aspects of systematic knowledge, from the origins of society to the nature of reality itself.
	www.foreignaffairs.org /19990501fabook1098/hans-p-moravec/robot-mere-machine-to-transcendent-mind.html (288 words)

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