Check the Blackboard site section "Course Materials" if a link to the material is not available here.
Week 1:
- Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us, Rodney Brooks (2002) -- pp 12-21, pp 32-51. [NB: On p. 32, "1992" should in fact be "1982"]
- Pseudocode reference Week 2:
- Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us, Rodney Brooks (2002) -- pp 99-126
- "Computer Recreations: The cellular automaton offers a model of the world and a world unto itself", Brian Hayes, Scientific American, March 1984 Week 3:
- Markoff, J. (2011, February 16). Computer Wins on ‘Jeopardy!’: Trivial, It’s Not. New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com.
- Segal, D. (2011, February 12). The Dirty Little Secrets of Search New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com.
Week 4:
- "What is a Computation?", Martin Davis, Mathematics Today, Lynn Arthur Steen ed., Vintage Books (Random House), 1980 Week 5:
- Sample Midterm from 2010
- Sample Midterm from 2008
- Mathematical Recreations: The Ultimate in Anty-Particles, Ian Stewart, Scientific American, July 1994
- The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing, Martin Davis (2000) -- p ? [Boole's version of Clarke's proof of the existence of God] Week 6:
- Worthington, L. Boolean Logic Worthington Biochem. Retrieved from http://www.worthington-biochem.com/. Week 7:
- None Week 8:
- "Computer Recreations: On the finite-state machine, a minimal model of mousetraps, ribosomes, and the human soul", Brian Hayes, Scientific American, December 1983 Week 9:
- Worthington, L. Sequential Circuits Worthington Biochem. Retrieved from http://www.worthington-biochem.com/.
- "Building Computer Circuits", G. Michael Schneider & Judith Gersting, Invitation to Computer Science, Fourth Edition: C++ Version, Course Technology; 4 edition (February 3, 2006) Week 10:
- None Week 11:
- Evan, R., "The Zombie Hunters" [here]. Retrieved from http://www.newyorker.com/.
- Bruce S., "The Storm Worm" [here]. Retrieved from http://www.schneier.com/.
- Gordon M., "Cramming more components onto integrated circuits" [here]. Retrieved from ftp://download.intel.com/.
- Bing G., "The End of Moore's Law: A Love Story" [here]. Retrieved from http://techcrunch.com/.
- (Supplementary) William B., "Israeli Test on Worm Called Crucial in Iran Nuclear Delay" [here]. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/.
- (Supplementary) Wikipedia, "Storm botnet" [here]. Retrieved from http://www.wikipedia.org/. Week 12:
- "Is the Brain's Mind a Computer Program", John R. Searle [blackboard]
- "A Guided Tour through Searle's Paper" [blackboard]
- "Turing's Test, Brian Hayes" [blackboard]
- (Part 2)
What is Artificial Intelligence? (Jack Copeland)
- (Part 3)
What is Artificial Intelligence? (Jack Copeland)
- (Part 13)
What is Artificial Intelligence? (Jack Copeland)
- (Part 14)
What is Artificial Intelligence? (Jack Copeland)
Other:
- Sample Lab Review Qs
- COS116 Final Review Slides:pdf/pptx
