Why Can't We All Just Get Along?: How Science Can Enable A More Cooperative Future. - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Fry moved to Boston in 1973 to attend Berklee College of Music (the MIT of Jazz). Realizing his musical skills needed augmentation, he moved across the river to MIT (The Berklee of Computers). He's worked at BBN, IBM, MIT's Experimental Music Studio, Sloan (business) school & Media Lab and a host of start-ups. He's written languages for music composition (Computer Improvisation and Flavors Band), general purpose computing (Macintosh Common Lisp and Water) and decision support via reasoning (Justify). His latest language and development environment is to help makers describe processes for robots to make anything. In 2012, Fry presented his plan for cutting gasoline use and the accident death rate (30K per year in the USA alone) in half (while saving money) to the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, the US House of Representatives, and the United Nations. Their disregard for this plan and the subsequent deaths of 200K+ people in auto accidents in the USA since, exposes these organizations' disregard for your life. This state of affairs provided motivation for this book.

Henry Lieberman has been a manufacturer of fine intellectual property for the last 40 years. He is Research Scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL), and has been Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Media Lab, running the Software Agents Group. He is trying to make computers less stupid and frustrating than they are now, through the fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). He has contributed to information overload by authoring more than 120 scientific papers and three books (before this one). His research has impacted software on nearly every computer in the world. Nerds will be impressed that he invented real-time memory management, which made today's dynamic memory programming languages like Java, Python, and others possible. He is known for originating prototype object systems, found today in languages like Javascript. He has also been a pioneer in topics like programming by example and commonsense reasoning in AI. He has a BS in mathematics from MIT and an HDR (PhD-equivalent) from the University of Paris (Sorbonne), where he was also a Visiting Professor. He has long collaborated with Fry on programming environments, debugging, AI, and several startups.