Title: What Computers Still Can't Do
Description: An evaluation of 20th-century salt-water artificial intelligence (AI) and cognitive simulation (CS), a philosophical and psychological explanation for AI and CS failures, and an exploration of potentially more successful directions for future AI and CS developments.
Subjects: artificial intelligence, cognitive simulation, human information processing, phenomenology, problem solving
Places: MIT, RAND, Stanford
People: Ed Feigenbaum, Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), John McCarthy (1927-2011), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961), Marvin Minsky, Allen Newell, Herbert Simon, Joseph Wiesenbaum, Terry Winograd, Patrick Winston, Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)
Time periods: second half of the 20th century