Mark Stefik

Barbara Stefik

The authors explore strategies for fostering powerful cultures of innovation and creating breakthroughs. The text includes several profiles of MIT innovators.

Stories and Strategies of Radical Innovation

Breakthrough

Internet Dreams illuminates not only how "the Net" is being created, but also stories about ourselves as our lives become electronically interconnected. Stefik explores some of the most provocative writings about the Internet to tease out the deeper metaphors and myths. 24 illustrations.

Archetypes, Myths, and Metaphors

Internet Dreams

Focusing on fundamental scientific and engineering issues, this book communicates the principles of building and using knowledge systems from the conceptual standpoint as well as the practical. Previous treatments of knowledge systems have focused on applications within a particular field, or on symbol-level representations, such as the use of frame and rule representations. Introduction to Knowledge Systems presents fundamentals of symbol-level representations including representations for time, space, uncertainty, and vagueness. It also compares the knowledge-level organizations for three common knowledge-intensive tasks: classification, configuration, and diagnosis. The art of building knowledge systems incorporates computer science theory, programming practice, and psychology. The scope of this book is appropriately broad, ranging from the design of hierarchical search algorithms to techniques for acquiring the task-specific knowledge needed for successful applications. Each chapter proceeds from concepts to applications, and closes with a brief tour of current research topics and open issues. Readers will come away with a solid foundation that will enable them to create real-world knowledge systems using whatever tools and programming languages are most current and appropriate.

Introduction to Knowledge Systems

Stefik examines the "magic" of new technologies in light of older issues involving the conflict of values in society. Issues include censorship, copyright protection, privacy, and economic stability.

Social, Technical, and Legal Challenges for a Networked World

The Internet Edge

William J. Clancey

Stephen W. Smoliar

One place where the scientific debate has been written for a broad audience is in the book review column of the international journal Artificial Intelligence, which has evolved from simple reviews to a multidisciplinary forum where reviewers and authors debate the latest, often competing, theories of human and artificial intelligence.

Mark Stefik

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