A ThinkQuest ’06 entry

Manufactured Minds

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There are people and organizations for whom we are grateful to for their contributions to the production of this website.

AlanTuring.net: For giving us permission to use a photograph of Alan Turing, from their website.

University of Southern California: For the usage of a graphic from their website (reproduced with permission).

Ray Kurzweil: For giving us permission to republish some of the poems found on his Cybernetic Poetry website.

Dr. Rich Wallace, A.L.I.C.E. AI Foundation, Inc. For giving us permission to use the illustration of ALICE, the chatbot.

John McCarthy: For giving us permission to use a photograph of himself, from his personal website.

WebTruck.org: For giving us permission to use a photo of an Aibo from their website.

The University of Texas at Austin: We would like to thank Dr. Peter Stone (and as well as Nyleva Corley and Guy Kingsbery) for allowing us to link to their video on the Robocup.

Bob Mottram: For the usage of an animated gif image that shows how a computer can detect object at different distances, from his website.

Chris Veness: For allowing us to use his Javascript implementation of the SHA-1 hashing algorithm.

Cornell Robocup: For generously giving us permission to use photos of their RoboCup robots and link to the video of a RoboCup match from their website.

Hank Morgan, from SciNetPhotos, who kindly gave us permission to use some paintings of AARON.

IBM Exploratory Computer Vision Group: For giving us permission to use a video from their website that shows how a human hand is tracked by an AI system.

Stock.xchng: Stock.xchng is a free stock photo exchange site. We wish to thank them for the use of some of their images on our website - Photo #519008 (by David Hartman), Photo #410035 (by Meghan Anderson-Colangelo).

Benjamin Lim: For offering Chris and Patrick valuable advice in some of the problems they faced when using Macromedia Flash.

Others: During the development of this website, we approached many other people to gain their insights and feedback on the website. We really appreciate their ideas and it indeed made a difference.