intelligence guru, Marvin Minsky, is one of the important centers of advance in robotics. Also at MIT is the Australian-born professor of computer science, Rodney A. Brooks, who is approaching robotics from a new angle. Brooks visualizes really small ones.The kind of robots that have been pictured in science fiction stories, both in print and in visual media, have always resembled human ...
are occasional reports of fugitive glimpses of these creatures in the wilder parts of the island.Now Henry Nix of the Australian National University is trying to track down the elusive thylacine by computer. By carefully noting the environmental factors of different parts of the island, Nix is programming the computer to find the spots most congenial to the thylacine, pinpointing its most ...
by Native Americans; by black Africans; by the Chinese and other people of the Far East; by the Polynesians; by the Australian Aborigines, and so on.There are even languages that have no known connections with and other─such as ancient Sumerian and modern Basque.If all of these were studied, might it be possible to work up an original language from which all descended.The topic was ...