Artificial Intelligence / Artificial Life / Robotics

*note: In the early 1980s I compiled a Robotics Bibliography for Charly Jungbauer's company Dada Data. So much has happened since then that many of those books are now obsolete (and won't be included here). This page is an attempt to present a more up-to-date bibliography.

My PowerBook 160 has now lost its floppy disc drive and is gradually dying. I can't readily access my raw text files, so entries will be slow in forthcoming. Would someone be willing to donate a new PowerBook to Mark/Space?

If you are aware of any new books or websites which should be added, please let me know. Contributions will be fully accredited. Links welcome.

• Neurocomputing: Foundations of Research by J.A.Anderson, E.Rosenfeld
  (19??, non-fiction... consciousness, artificial intelligence)

• The Thinking Computer by Raphael Bertram
  (19??, non-fiction... artificial intelligence)

• SimAnt User Manual by Michael Bremer
  (1991, non-fiction, reference...Maxis, Orinda, California, US... artificial life computer game)

• Fast, Cheap and Out of Control by Rodney A.Brooks
  (1989, non-fiction...MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Cambridge, Massachusetts, US... microbots, construction robots, space migration)

• In Our Image: Building an Artificial Person by Maureen Caudill
  (1992, non-fiction...Oxford University Press, New York, US... artificial intelligence)

• Microcognition: Philosophy, Cognitive Science, and Parallel Distributing Processing by A.Clark
  (19??, non-fiction... parallel processing, artificial intelligence)

• The Intimate Machine: Close Encounters with Computers and Robots by Neil Frude
  (1983, non-fiction...New American Library, New York, US, hbk... anthropomorphism, robotics)

• Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization, and Machine Learning by David E.Goldberg
  (1989, non-fiction...Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, US)

• Artificial Intelligence Debate: False Starts, Real Foundations edited by Stephen Graubard
  (1988, non-fiction...MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, US)

• Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought by Douglas R.Hofstadter and the Fluid Analogies Research Group
  (1995, non-fiction...Basic Books, New York, US)

• Out of Control -- The New Biology of Machines by Kevin Kelly
  (1994, non-fiction... machine intelligence, hive mind, Rodney A.Brooks, etc.)

• Artificial Life: The Proceedings of an Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems edited by Christopher G.Langton
  (1989, non-fiction...Addison-Wesley, Redwood City, California, US... artificial life)

• Artificial Life II: The Proceedings of the Workshop on Artificial Life edited by Christopher G.Langton
  (1992, non-fiction...Addison-Wesley, Redwood City, California, US... artificial life)

• Artificial Life: The Quest for a New Creation by Steven Levy
  (1992, non-fiction... artificial life)

• The Robot Book by Robert Malone
  (1978, non-fiction...Push Pin Press / Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, US... a coffee-table book which presents a "Chronology of Robot-Related Events"... automata)

• Parallel Distributed Processing: Explorations in the Microstructure of Cognition, Vol.1 edited by James McClelland, David Rumelhart
  (1986, non-fiction...Bradford Books / MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, US... contains PDP software order form)

• From Animals to Animats: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior edited by Jean-Arcady Meyer, Stewart W.Wilson
  (1979, non-fiction...MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, US)

• Simulacra by John Michell
  (1979, non-fiction...Thames and Hudson, London, UK)

• The Society of Mind by Marvin Minsky
  (1987, non-fiction...Simon & Schuster, New York, US...
  "Minsky describes an emergent system, an inner world of highly anthropomorphized agents." --Sherry Turkle.)

• Mind Children by Hans Moravec
  (19??, non-fiction)

• Robots: Fact, Fiction and Prediction by Jasia Reichardt
  (1978, non-fiction, illustrated...Penguin Books, New York, US... history of robots)

• Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams: Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworlds by Mitchel Resnick
  (1994, non-fiction...MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, US)

• Artificial Life Lab by Rudy Rucker
  (1994, non-fiction, book/software)

• HAL's Legacy: 2001's Computer as Dream and Reality edited by David G.Stork
  (199?, non-fiction, anthology...MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, US... contains: Foreword by Arthur C.Clarke... online version available)

• Ada, The Enchantress of Numbers by Betty Alexandra Toole
  (1992, non-fiction...Strawberry Press, Mill Valley, California, US... annotated collection of Ada Lovelace's letters)
  "Daughter of Lord Byron, she's also been called 'The Queen of Engines'... Lady Ada provided the mathematics for Charles Babbage's analytical engine. This is true cybernetic history. Real steampunk!" --Henry W.Targowski.

• The Cybernetic Imagination in Science Fiction by Patricia S.Warrick
  (19??, non-fiction... scholarly look at robots in literature)

• The Human Use of Human Beings by Norbert Wiener
  (1950, non-fiction...Houghton Mifflin, Boston, US... Wiener coined the word 'cybernetics' in this ground-breaking book)

Rodney A.Brooks
(partial listing of his writings... microbots, mobots, construction robots, space migration)

• I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
  (1950, short stories, science fiction...
  "The stories in that book were based on my 'Three Laws of Robotics' which were first put into words in 1942." --Isaac Asimov.)

• Blood Music by Greg Bear
  (1985, novel, science fiction, cyberpunk, posthuman... cellular intelligence)

• R.U.R. -- Rossum's Universal Robots by Karel Çapek
  (19??, play, science fiction... Çapek coined the word 'robot' in 1921, and first used it in this stageplay)

• War in the Age of Intelligent Machines by Manuel De Landa
  (1991, fiction/non-fiction... future perspective on war)

• The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem
  (1975, science fiction)

• He, She and It by Marge Piercy
  (1991?, novel, science fiction... compares the golem myth with artificial intelligence)

• Software by Rudy Rucker
  (1982, novel, science fiction... book 1 'Bopper' trilogy)

• Wetware by Rudy Rucker
  (1988, novel, science fiction... book 2 'Bopper' trilogy)

• Freeware by Rudy Rucker
  (May 1997, novel, science fiction...Avon Books, New York, US, hbk... book 3 'Bopper' trilogy)

• Me by Thomas T.Thomas
  (1991, novel, science fiction...Baen Books, US, pbk... artificial intelligence, software evolution, identity)

Simple Rules Yield Complex Behavior: A 13-Minute Introduction
(1993, videocassette, 13 minutes... produced and directed by Linda Feferman... available from Sante Fe Institute... an introduction to the Tierra artificial life program authored by Thomas Ray)

ALife Garden
(ALife Cyber-Pet... artificial life... around 500 creatures... select a pet in the system)

Artificial Life
(exhibition of William Latham's 3D artwork)

Artificial Life Lab
(Rudy Rucker book with software...Waite Group Press publishing info)

Artificial Life Online
(information, software, FAQ, genetic algorithms, neural nets... located at Santa Fe Institute)

The Blind Watchmaker
(computer program by Richard Dawkins... illustrates the principles expressed in his book... unaware of an online presence...
"Creates line drawings on the computer screen that can be varied by changing any of nine parameters." --Sherry Turkle, in Life on the Screen , 1995.)

Depression 2.0
(psychoanalytical software... presents itself as a psychotherapst specializing in treating depression...
"Built around a theory easily modeled by a computer. This is a cognitive-behavioral theory of depression: People get depressed because of unrelenting self-criticism and unrealistic expectations about what their lives should be." --Sherry Turkle, in Life on the Screen , 1995.)

Marco's Maddening Artificial Life Page
("Links to the most interesting ALife sites")

MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
("A crucial hotbed of AI studies and projects. Includes links to work by Rodney A.Brooks, Pattie Maes, etc." --Henry W.Targowski.)

"The Quest for the Gnarl" by Rudy Rucker
(intro to Julgnarl... artificial life software)

Rodney A. Brooks' Personal Page
(Brooks is working with small semi-autonomous robots...
"It provides links to some of his projects; links to his scientific papers; links to his companies." --Billy1949e.)

Tierra Home Page
(artificial life software developed by the biologist Thomas Ray... generate a virtual computer with evolving machine code...
"Tierra has digital 'chromosomes' which are said to mate, mutate, and evolve... The kind of mythic fears and concerns formerly associated with AI may be beginning to be displaced onto artificial life. Rodney Brooks, for one, believes that Ray's organisms, even in a virtual machine, are potentially dangerous." --Sherry Turkle.)

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