418 Are the Androids Dreaming Yet?
U
Ultimate Question of Life the Universe and Everything 238
ultraviolet light 100 Uncanny Valley 75 uncertainty 318 understanding xiii, 53
meaning of 56
of computers 71 Unicode 129, 203 United States Army’s Ballistic Research
Laboratory 223
Universal Turing Machine 246 universe
anthropic principle 322
complexity and chaos 173
determined 207
deterministic 175
end of 140 University of Alberta 119 University of Arizona 119, 122, 282 University of Calgary 251 University of California 280 University of Maryland 33 University of Massachusetts 280 University of Montreal 117 University of Moscow 258 University of Otago 33 University of Santa Cruz 7 University of Vienna 202 urban legend 11 US Supreme Court 28
Vv
van Gogh, Vincent 142 variable initialization 250 vertical abstraction 267 Visco, Frank L 396 vision 109
vision intelligence 29 visual agnosia 12 Volkswagen Polo 312 von Neumann, John 223 Vorderman, Carol 30
WwW
Wallas, Graham 1, 301 Wang 308
War and Peace 129 Watson computer 8, 207
Watson Research Laboratory 5 wave interference 320 wavelength 102 weather predicting 168, 172 Wechsler Test 27 Weizenbaum, Joseph 25 West, Mae 78 Whitehead, Alfred North 195 Who Wants to be a Millionaire? 347 Wikipedia 8, 129, 231 Wilder, Billy 128 Wiles, Andrew xi, 75, 242, 248, 251, 254, 259, 261, 351 Wiles Paradox 247 William of Occam 68 Winchester Drives 306 Wise, Michael 335 Wolfram, Stephen 173, 246, 352 Woods, Tiger 116 WordPress 237 World War I (First World War) 211, 337 World War II (Second World War) 17, 218, 337 code breakers 211 Wozniak, Steve 10, 68 Wright, Stephen 274 WYSIWYG 237
X XPRIZE 238, 367 X-ray 69, 100
damage from 104 slicing technique 102 wavelength 102
Y Yellow Pages 308
Z
Zar, Jerrold H 139
Zeitgeist 86
Zeno machine 280
Zeno’s paradox 154 Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory 156 zigzag method 182
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