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This article examines Marvin Minsky's Society of Mind theory of human cognition. We describe some of the history behind the theory, review several of the specific mechanisms and representations that Minsky proposes, and consider related developments in Artificial Intelligence since the theory's publication.

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SAS faculty share their insights on the human brain.

Everything from education to warfare comes down to the workings of the human mind, and now the mind itself is being understood in terms of the brain. Across numerous disciplines, Penn Arts and Sciences faculty are studying this amazing three-pound organ and the insights it is offering on diverse human problems.

As part of the spring 2010 Take Your Brain to Lunch Lecture Series, Martha Farah, Annenberg Professor of Natural Sciences in the Department of Psychology and Director of Penn's new Center for Neuroscience & Society, led conversations with Penn faculty members about the brain.

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Yet even as we are acquiring ever more extraordinary knowledge, we are storing it in ever more fragile and ephemeral forms. If our civilisation runs into trouble, like all others before it, how much would survive? - tech - 02 February 2010 - New Scientist

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This edition of the AAAS Science and Technology Policy Yearbook
coincides with both the start of the new millennium and the 25th
Anniversary of the AAAS Colloquium on Science and Technology
Policy. In recognition of these events, it takes both a retrospective and prospective look at S&T policy, and examines the mutual impacts of technology and society.

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Tough also deftly summarizes much of the recent work done on the cognitive neuroscience of poverty, or how our brain is changed by the details of our upbringing. (One crucial finding is that "middle-class" parents are much more verbose than parents living in poverty. For instance, one study found that wealthier parents directed an average of 487 "utterances" towards to their child per hour. In contrast, homes with a parent on welfare averaged a mere 178 utterances per hour. This leads, over time, to dramatic differences in the vocabulary size of the child, which strongly correlates with IQ.). (The Frontal Cortex)

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A Journal of Technology & Society

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