When and where was Hans Moravec born?
Hans Peter Moravec was born on the 30th of November 1948 in Kautzen, Austria. He began his higher education at Loyola College in Montreal before transferring to Acadia University.
Hans Peter Moravec was born on the 30th of November 1948 in Kautzen, Austria. He began his higher education at Loyola College in Montreal before transferring to Acadia University.
Hans Moravec completed his PhD at Stanford University in 1980 with a dissertation centered on the Stanford Cart. This television-equipped robot could navigate cluttered obstacle courses while being remotely controlled by a large computer system.
Hans Moravec has served as an adjunct professor at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh since 2005. He previously joined this institute in 1980 as a research scientist and later became a research professor in 1995.
Hans Moravec estimated that human brains operate at approximately ten quadrillion instructions per second. He projected that computers matching human speed would cost around 1000 USD by the mid-2020s based on 1997 dollar values adjusted for inflation.
The book Mind Children published in 1988 outlined a timeline where robots evolve into new artificial species starting between 2030 and 2040. Moravec introduced what became known as the neural substitution argument seven years before David Chalmers wrote about similar ideas.