Acknowledgements


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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. 


Claus Hilgetag (Unversity of Hamburg, Germany)
Gully Burns (Chan Zuckerburg Initiative, CA, USA).
Igancio Solis (formerly at University of Santa Cruz, CA, USA).
J. Andrew Derbyshire (National Institutes of Health, Baltimore MD, USA).
Mike Roe (Department of computing science and Technology, University of Cambridge, UK).
David Flitney (formerly at Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, UK).
Malcolm Beattie (Computer Services, University of Oxford, UK).
Peter Rounce (formerly at Department of Computer Science, UCL, UK).
Dom Layfield (formerly at MIT, Boston MA, USA)
Peter Kyberd (University of Derby, UK)
Sean Taffler (formerly at Oxford Orthapeadic Engineering Centre, Oxford, UK)
Neil Davis (formerly at Sheffield University, Sheffield, UK).
Mark Boddington (formerly at Oxford University, UK).
Lee Ward (formerly at US Department of Energy).
Jawhr Bammi (formerly at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA).
Amnon Barak (Hebrew University of Jurusalem).
Mike Cooke (formerly at Laser-Scan, Cambridge, UK).



Philosophically, PUPS/P3 applications have much in common with biological systems and therefore, I must express a debt of gratitude to Richard Dawkins formerly (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

Mark O'Neill
Newcastle, October 2023



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