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These are the books/articles I have translated/am translating into Traditional
Chinese (in reverse chronological order). Please let me know
if you find any good books which are worth translating. Thanks.
How the Mind Works
Author: Steven
Pinker
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company
(Jan 1, 1999)
ISBN: 0393318486
Taiwan Publisher: Commercial
Press Taiwan
Published on: January
2006
Abstract: Why do fools
fall in love? Why does a man's annual salary, on average, increase
$600 with each inch of his height? When a crack dealer guns down a
rival, how is he just like Alexander Hamilton, whose face is on the
ten-dollar bill? How do optical illusions function as windows on the
human soul? Cheerful, cheeky, occasionally outrageous MIT psychologist
Steven Pinker answers all of the above and more in his marvelously
fun, awesomely informative survey of modern brain science (abridged
from Amazon.com).
Robot: Mere Machine to Transcendent Mind
Author: Hans
Moravec
Publisher: Oxford University Press
(May 2000)
ISBN: 0195136306
Taiwan Publisher: Commercial
Press Taiwan
Published on: May
2004
Abstract: This is science
fiction without the fiction - and more mind-bending than anything you
ever saw on Star Trek. Moravec, a professor of robotics at Carnegie
Mellon University, envisions a not-too-distant future in which robots
of superhuman intelligence have picked up the evolutionary baton from
their human creators and headed out into space to colonize the universe.
This isn't anything that a million sci-fi paperbacks haven't already
envisioned. The difference lies in Moravec's practical-minded mapping
of the technological, economic, and social steps that could lead to
that vision (abridged from Amazon.com).
