James S. Albus

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Dr. James Sacra Albus is a Senior NIST Fellow, Founder and former Chief of the Intelligent Systems Division of the Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

Dr. Albus is notable for his contributions to cerebellar robotics, development of a two-handed manipulator system known as the Robocrane (a crane-like variation on the Stewart platform idea) and for a novel economic concept known as Peoples' Capitalism. Peoples' Capitalism goes beyond similar ideas of Louis O. Kelso and answers the "how would we live without jobs" question so common in Molecular Nanotechnology discussions.

Albus's vision concerns: a world without poverty, a world of prosperity, a world of opportunity, a world without pollution, a world without war and includes a detailed plan for achievement of same.

While at NIST, Albus developed a theory for intelligent system design named the Reference Model Architecture, which is a hierarchical control system inspired by the Real-Time Control System.

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  • Engineering of Mind: An Introduction to the Science of Intelligent Systems (ISBN 0-471-43854-5).
  • Meystel, A and Albus, J. S., Intelligent Systems, John Wiley and Sons, 2002

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