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From: push@mit.edu (Pushpinder Singh)
Subject: Re: Minsky's new article (was: Roger Penro
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In article <39menf$8c0@cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu>, hpm@cs.cmu.edu wrote:

> Sean Matthews (sean@mpi-sb.mpg.de) wrote:
> > Anyway, Scientific American is not Analog magazine; it is supposed to
> > be a *bit* more conservative, and this means not publishing what is
> > indistinguishable from science fiction (right down to frontspiece
> > picture of anthropomorphic robot looking down gently and comfortingly
> > into eyes of trusting, and wonderfilled girl).
> 
> That robot is a prototype version of the latest robot from Rod Brooks'
> labs, COG.  COG is controlled by a supercomputer implementing
> heirarchies of reflexive behaviors making the robot able to, among
> other things, track external visual and auditory objects, by
> implementing psychological theories of visual and auditory perception.
> The "girl" is Lynn Stein, who is co-principal investigator of the
> project.  Your characterization of her is grossly insulting.

Actually the woman is Cynthia Ferrell, one of Rod Brooks' most senior
graduate students.  Otherwise, though, you're right -- Matthews'
characterization of her is grossly insulting.

-push
