David Waltz

David Waltz ( May 28 , 1943 – March 22 , 2012) was a computer scientist who made significant contributions in several areas of artificial intelligence, including constraint satisfaction, case-based reasoning and the application of massively parallel computation to AI problems.

Quotes

• It’s a major advance
  • David Waltz remarks on Robot Makes Scientific Discovery All by Itself
• understanding cognition—understanding the way the brain works, what the mind does—is a key scientific grand challenge.
• the brain and mind “work through” intense experiences by repeated rehearsal, daydreams, talking to oneself. In the process, we construct demons that can give us timely alerts
• experiments show that young children, too young to have been able to explore the world with their hands, understand in some fairly deep way the physics of the world
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