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Hans Moravec (U.S.) is known for his work on robotics, and writings on the impact of technology. Among other work, Moravec has developed techniques in machine vision for determining the region of interest in a scene. It should be noted that other ROI techniques exist, including the patents of Sherman de Forest (U.S.), and the machine vision / image processing articles by Sobel.
In his book "Mind Children" Moravec outlines Moore's law and predictions about the future of artificial life. Moravec outlines a timeline (http://www.transhumanist.com/volume1/moravec.htm) and a scenario (http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/project.archive/general.articles/1993/Robot93.html) in this regard, which basically supports Isaac Asimov's literature, in that the robots will evolve into a new series of artificial species, starting (http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/project.archive/robot.papers/2004/Predictions.html) around 2030-2040.
Moravec is a proponent of superhumanism.
External links
His homepage can be found at http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/.
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