Designing Intelligence

This topic is not to be confused with the creationist anti-theory of intelligent design. 

It might be because I'm more aware than most people on this subject, but I continue to hear more about the introduction of intelligent systems into business infrastructures and applications.  Simple straightforward data applications are no longer enough to feed the demands for metadata and analytics. 

I just got my copy of the latest The MIT Press Computer Science & Intelligent Systems catalog.  To me this is like the Sears catalogs I remember when I was a child.  The MIT press inventory is full of new tomes on programming, the internet, and the usual computer science periodicals.  But the content for intelligent robotics and complex adaptive intelligent systems is very impressive.  Here are some of the books on the way to my house.