Overview Page

Web Readings

• Timeline of Events Related to Computing (PDF Docutment)
• Chess, Deep Blue, Kasparov and Intelligence
  • Mean Chess-Playing Computer Tears at Meaning of Thought, By Bruce Weber, February 19, 1996
  • Conventional Wisdom Says Machines Cannot Think By George Johnson, May 9, 1997
  • IBM Chess Machine Beats Humanity's Champ By Bruce Weber, May 12, 1997
  • Computer in the News: Kasparov's Inscrutable Conqueror By Robert D. McFadden, May 12, 1997
• Minsky, M. L. Why People Think Computers Can't. AI Magazine, 1982, 4, 3-15

• Some History
• Depiction of the Space of Possible Theories
• Levels Hypothesis
  • Tic Tac Toe Example
  • Tic Tac Toe and Homomorphisms
  • Tic Tac Toe and Associated Combinatory Spaces
  • A Tinkertoy computer that plays tic-tac-toe by A. K. Dewdney

Text Readings

• Chapter 1. What is Artificial Intelligence?
• Skim Appendix

Assignments

• Problem and use of Logic
• Levels Essay Question