Overview
Introduction
Ghost in the Machines
by Jesse Emspak
Section 1: Faster, Smarter, Cheaper
1.1 The Next 20 Years of Microchips
by The Editors
1.2 How to Build a Hypercomputer
by Thomas Sterling
1.3 The Do It Yourself Supercomputer
by William Hargrove, Forrest Hoffman, and Thomas Sterling
1.4 The Grid: Computing without Bounds
by Ian Foster
Section 2: Thinking Machines: Ways of Being
2.1 Artificial Intelligence
by Marvin L. Minsky
2.2 A Test for Consciousness
by Christof Koch and Giulio Tononi
2.3 Electric Thoughts
by Yvonne Raley
2.4 Machine Self-Awareness
by Larry Greenemeier
2.5 Machines that Think for Themselves
by Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa
Section 3: Beyond Silicon
3.1 A Chip that Thinks like a Brain
by Christopher Mims
3.2 Quantum Computing with Molecules
by Neil Gershenfeld and Isaac L. Chuang
3.3 Optical Neural Computers
by Yaser S. Abu Mostafa and Demetri Psaltis
Section 4: We, Robot
4.1 Rise of the Robo Scientists
by Ross D. King
4.2 My Date with a Robot
by Robert Epstein
4.3 Robot Be Good
by Michael Anderson and Susan Leigh Anderson
4.4 Where are the Talking Robots?
by Joshua K. Hartshome
Section 5: The Hard Problems
5.1 The Elusive Goal of Machine Translation
by Gary Stix
5.2 A Grandmaster Chess Machine
by Feng-hsiung Hsu, Thomas Anantharaman, Murray Campbell, and Andreas Nowatzyk
5.3 The Machine that Would Predict the Future
by David Weinberger
5.4 The Limits of Quantum Computers
by Scott Aaronson