Most Popular Books by Melanie Mitchell

Learn how to eat well to keep healthy.

A basic overview of the life cycle of a snake and the behavior of young snakes as they grow.

An introduction to metal and its uses in everyday life.

A basic overview of the life cycle of a rabbit and the behavior of young rabbits as they grow.

Provides a simple introduction to feet.

Each title in this series focuses on a different component of staying healthy. Topics include physical, behavioural and emotional aspects of health, giving kids friendly yet instructive advice. Fun activities and questions keep readers engaged.

A very simple introduction to ears and some of the animals that have them.

A simple introduction to some different animals that have tails.

A simple introduction to wings and some of the animals that have them.

This handy pocket reference and interactive CD-ROM will help you learn and retain important information you need as a dental assistant, and it is all in one place. The "Pocket Guide" format allows you to have a complete and handy resource during clinical dental assistant practice. You can quickly and effortlessly review tray setups, dental materials, dental charting, cement mixing, assembling the XCP instrument, and film placements. The hands-on Pocket Guide plus interactive CD-ROM facilitate learning and can be used as a reference or for review. Interactive exercises, procedure videos, a database of dental materials, and Internet links will make your career as a dental assistant easier.

A basic overview of the life cycle of a frog.

This book is out of a workshop organized to address questions like these. The meeting was sponsored by the Santa Fe Institute and held at Sol y Sam- bra in Santa Fe, New Mexico, during July, 1993. It brought together a group of about 20 scientists from the disciplines of biology, psychology, and computer science, all studying interactions between the evolution of populations and individuals’ adaptations in those populations, and all of whom make some use of computational tools in their work.

A simple introduction to earth''s single moon.

Introduces the many jobs and responsibilities of grade school teachers.

Provides a simple introduction to eyes.

The psychologist William James observed that "a native talent for perceiving analogies is... the leading fact in genius of every order." The centrality and the ubiquity of analogy in creative thought have been noted again and again by scientists, artists, and writers, and understanding and modeling analogical thought have emerged as two of the most important challenges for cognitive science.Analogy-Making as Perception is based on the premise that analogy-making is fundamentally a high-level perceptual process in which the interaction of perception and concepts gives rise to "conceptual slippages" which allow analogies to be made. It describes Copycat - a computer model of analogymaking, developed by the author with Douglas Hofstadter, that models the complex, subconscious interaction between perception and concepts that underlies the creation of analogies.In Copycat, both concepts and high-level perception are emergent phenomena, arising from large numbers of low-level, parallel, non-deterministic activities. In the spectrum of cognitive modeling approaches, Copycat occupies a unique intermediate position between symbolic systems and connectionist systems a position that is at present the most useful one for understanding the fluidity of concepts and high-level perception.On one level the work described here is about analogy-making, but on another level it is about cognition in general. It explores such issues as the nature of concepts and perception and the emergence of highly flexible concepts from a lower-level "subcognitive" substrate.Melanie Mitchell, Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, is a Fellow of the Michigan Society of Fellows. She is also Director of the Adaptive Computation Program at the Santa Fe Institute.

«Melanie Mitchell scrive sull''intelligenza artificiale con voce calda e amichevole e una brillantezza che nessuna macchina potrebbe sperare di eguagliare... per ora». Steven Strogatz «Un tour illuminante su come funziona l''intelligenza artificiale e sul perché non è all''altezza della vera intelligenza umana». Sean Carroll Quanto sono intelligenti i piú avanzati programmi di intelligenza artificiale? Possiamo fidarci di loro nelle decisioni che toccano le nostre vite? E in che misura dovremmo cominciare a preoccuparci rispetto a quando potrebbero superarci? Nessuna impresa scientifica recente è stata cosí entusiasmante, terrorizzante, piena di promesse stravaganti e di frustranti battute d''arresto quanto l''intelligenza artificiale. Con chiarezza e passione, Melanie Mitchell, un''importante scienziata informatica, ci offre un avvincente resoconto dell''intelligenza artificiale contemporanea. Arricchito di storie personali e un tocco di umorismo, il volume illustra il funzionamento di macchine che imitano l''apprendimento, la percezione, il linguaggio e persino la creatività e il buon senso umani. Intrecciando i progressi dell''intelligenza artificiale con le scienze cognitive e la filosofia, l''autrice sonda in che modi le macchine «intelligenti » di oggi possono effettivamente pensare o comprendere e se abbiano anche bisogno delle qualità umane piú peculiari. Una panoramica accessibile, chiara ed equilibrata dell''intelligenza artificiale, di ciò che la ricerca ha effettivamente realizzato, dei suoi limiti invalicabili e di cosa significherà nel futuro.

A book to read, a puzzle to master, and fuzzy animals to play with! These two irresistible novelty books are follow-ups to Farm and Safari on the Spring 2006 list. Featuring two adorable, tactile animals on each page to pull out and play with, these simple jigsaw books will delight babies as well as help develop eye-hand coordination. Collect all four titles!

Board book with shaped lift the flaps. 1-3 yrs.

A book to read, a puzzle to master, and fuzzy animals to play with! These two irresistible novelty books are follow-ups to Farm and Safari on the Spring 2006 list. Featuring two adorable, tactile animals on each page to pull out and play with, these simple jigsaw books will delight babies as well as help develop eye-hand coordination. Collect all four titles!

How is an American flag made? Thread is woven into cloth that is dyed red, white, and blue in a factory. Workers cut the red cloth into strips, and the white cloth into strips and stars. The blue cloth is cut into squares and the stars are sewn onto them. Then, the flag is sewn together and shipped to stores on trucks to be bought and flown by people.

This text provides an intimate, highly readable tour of the sciences of complexity, which seek to explain how large-scale complex, organized, and adaptive behaviour can emerge from simple interactions among myriad individuals.

Melanie Mitchell separa la ciencia real de la ciencia ficción en este amplio examen del estado actual de la IA y de cómo está rehaciendo nuestro mundo. Ninguna empresa científica reciente ha resultado tan seductora, aterradora y llena de extravagantes promesas y frustrantes reveses como la inteligencia artificial. La galardonada autora Melanie Mitchell, una destacada científica informática, revela ahora la turbulenta historia de la IA y la reciente oleada de aparentes éxitos, grandes esperanzas y temores emergentes que la rodean. En æInteligencia ArtificialÆ, Mitchell aborda las cuestiones más urgentes de la IA en la actualidad: ¿Hasta qué punto son realmente inteligentes los mejores programas de IA ¿Cómo funcionan ¿Qué pueden hacer realmente y cuándo fallan ¿Hasta qué punto esperamos que se asemejen a los humanos y cuándo debemos preocuparnos de que nos superen Por el camino, presenta los modelos dominantes de la IA y el aprendizaje automático modernos, describiendo los programas de IA más avanzados, sus inventores humanos y las líneas de pensamiento históricas que sustentan los logros recientes. Explora la profunda desconexión entre el bombo publicitario y los logros reales de la IA, proporcionando una idea clara de lo que el campo ha logrado y cuánto le queda por recorrer. Una guía indispensable para entender la IA actual, su búsqueda de una inteligencia "de nivel humano" y su impacto en nuestro futuro.

Aucune entreprise scientifique récente ne s''est avérée aussi séduisante, terrifiante et remplie de promesses extravagantes et de revers frustrants que l''intelligence artificielle. Dans ce livre, Melanie Mitchell se penche sur les questions les plus urgentes posées par l''IA : Dans quelle mesure les meilleurs programmes d''IA sont-ils vraiment intelligents ? Comment fonctionnent-ils ? Que peuvent-ils réellement faire, et quand échouent-ils ? Dans quelle mesure deviennent-ils humains, et quand devrons-nous nous inquiéter qu''ils nous dépassent ? En cours de route, elle présente les modèles dominants de l''IA moderne et de l''apprentissage machine, en décrivant les programmes d''IA de pointe, leurs inventeurs et les courants de pensée historiques qui sous-tendent les réalisations récentes. Elle explore la profonde déconnexion entre le battage publicitaire et les réalisations réelles en IA, en donnant une idée claire de ce que le domaine a accompli et de ce qu''il reste à faire. Associant les recherches les plus stimulantes du domaine, et les observations personnelles de l''auteure, ce livre est un guide indispensable pour comprendre l''IA d''aujourd''hui, sa quête d''intelligence " à l''échelle humaine " et son impact sur l''avenir pour nous tous. Avec une postface de Douglas Hofstadter, auteur du best seller international Gödel, Escher, Bach : les brins d''une guirlande éternelle. [Payot].