Minsky's Society of Mind would be a good launching off point. Other than that particularly famous example, I would just check out any of the authors of the pape

Minsky's Society of Mind would be a good launching off point. Other than that particularly famous example, I would just check out any of the authors of the papers in that link. This class fulfills a communication requirement at MIT, so there are a one-page response/reflections due at each class. These reflections basically just ensure that you have a decent grasp at the main points of the paper, so that you would be ready for a seminar-style discussion in class. Genesis is pretty interesting. Here's a link to the details: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/genesis/ http://groups.csail.mit.edu/genesis/ But in short, it's an attempt to get computers to understand stories — and to discover what is the fundamental difference between the human mind and all other animals (spoiler alert: Winston's group believes it's the ability for humans to take two concepts and merge them into a new concept, indefinitely. AKA: creating "stories"). So the goal of Genesis is story-understanding.