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Week 2 September 11: Discuss Turing, 1950.
September 13: Discuss Searle, 1980 (here is another version). Searle's Anticipated Responses. Blank's definition of intelligence.
Week 3 September 18: Discuss Reflections on Searle's Chinese Room, and The Turing Test: A Coffeehouse Conversation (both from "The Mind's I"). Notes.
September 20: Discuss "Representation and Computation", Chapter 1 of textbook. Notes.
Week 4 September 25: Discuss "Logic", Chapter 2 of textbook. Notes: Bayes Theorem, Prolog (tutorial, introduction, samples). Project #1. Due Oct 2.
September 27: Logic, continued. Discuss Chapter 2, Mind Readings.
Week 5 October 2: Finish up logic. Turn in Project #1 at beginning of class.
October 4: Comments on Prolog. Rules, Chapter 3, textbook: Rules. [Chapter 3, readings will be delayed till later].
Week 6 October 9: Chapter 4, readings: Rules of language (Pinker).
October 11: Chapter 5, textbook: Analogies.
Week 7 No classes, Fall Break!!
Week 8
October 23: Chapter 6, readings: Structure Mapping in Analogy and Similarity (Genter and Markman). Email reaction to dblank. On-line responses.
October 25: Blank's thesis
Week 9 October 30: Blank's thesis; Exam Review
November 1: Midterm Exam. Rules: when you get a block of 1.5 hours, sit down with your notes and books and THEN click on the following link. When you read the questions, your time has begun. Spend about 30 minutes on each question. Do the exam sometime between NOW and Midnight Sunday. Here is the exam.
I, Stephanie the robot on Halloween.
Week 10 November 6: Chapter 6, textbook.
November 8: Chapter 7, readings. See also: The Symbol Grounding Problem, by Steven Harnad; a workshop on Anchoring; categorical perception
Week 11 November 13: Trial: Symbolic v. Non-symbolic.
November 15: Chapter 7, textbook. See Con-x for hints on a neural network project.
Week 12 November 20: Project Proposal Due. Chapter 8, readings. Con-x discussion.
November 22: NO CLASS, HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!
Week 13 November 27: Chapter 9, textbook. Illusions
November 29: TBA
Week 14 December 4: Chapter 11, readings.
December 6: Chapter 11, textbook.
December 11: Chapter 13, readings, and Chapter 12, textbook.
December 13: Review.
