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The
PUPS/P3
system has been developed by Mark O'Neill,
and many people have contributed ideas (and/or code) over the last decade
which have all contributed to it's current beta release status. If I've
left anyone out, I humbly apologise.
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Claus Hilgetag (Free University of Bremen)
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Gully Burns (University of Southern California, CA, USA).
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Igancio Solis (University of Santa Cruz, CA, USA).
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J. Andrew Derbyshire (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD, USA).
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Mike Roe (Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK).
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David Flitney (formerly at Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, UK).
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Malcolm Beattie (Computer Services, University of Oxford, UK).
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Peter Rounce (Department of Computer Science, UCL, UK).
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Dom Layfield (formerly at MIT, Boston MA, USA)
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Peter Kyberd (University of New Brunswick, Canada)
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Sean Taffler (formerly at Oxford Orthapeadic Engineering Centre, Oxford, UK)
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Neil Davis (Sheffield University, Sheffield, UK).
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Mark Boddington (formerly at Oxford University, UK).
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Lee Ward (US Department of Energy).
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Philosophically,
PUPS/P3
applications have much in common with biological systems and therefore, I must express
a debt of gratitude to
Richard Dawkins
(Simoni Professor of the Understanding of Science,
University of Oxford) for both showing me the way, and laying down a challenge in
his book, The Blind Watchmaker.
The design of
PUPS
was also heavily influenced by
Victor Serebriakoffs
books: Brain. (1975)
and The Future of Intelligence (1987).
which taught me much about the nature and operation of homeostats.
References
Serebriakoff 1975: Serebriakov V, Brain, Davis-Poynter, London, ISBN 0-7067-0105-4
Sebriakoff 1987: Serebriakov V, The future of intelligence: biological and artificial,
Pantheon, New York, ISBN 0-9408-1302-5
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Mark O'Neill
Newcastle, December 2007.
PUPS/P3 (c) Mark A.O'Neill 2007
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