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10M
MON, Nov. 04
    ---------- Part III -- Your Intelligent Agent ----------

  • IN CLASS
    1. A "writing moment" (from a Pocket Style Manual)
      • (15) Revise run-on sentences
      • (16) Check for common ESL problems

    2. Your Agent Design - Part I (due Wed., Nov. 13)
      based on the readings over the next two weeks

    3. Discussion of Norman's and Negroponte's vision of "agents"
    4. What will we need to consider if we really try to build an agent?
    5. What does it mean to "falsely anthropomorphize"?
    6. Is Negroponte's analogy of a "digital butler" accurate?
10W
WED, Nov. 06
  • IN LAB (csLab)
    • DEMOS of your agent ...

    • Natural Language Processing - Part I
    • ELIZA

11M
MON, Nov. 11

  • IN CLASS
    1. A "writing moment" (from a Pocket Style Manual)
      • (17) The comma
      • (18) The semicolon and the colon

    2. TO PREPARE FOR TODAY
      1. Read and take notes of Harel's chapters 1 & 2 (from Computers Ltd. - what computers really can't do. There are lots of details here. Take your time as you read and take good notes (see bibliography).
        • Harel's chapter 1 - recipe's, algorithms, software
        • programming languages, compilers, software development environments
        • Harel's chapter 2 - computers can not solve all types of problems, really!
        • The Turing Test. (see Links).
        • It's not that what computing is doing and will do isn't exciting, it is. Limits are sometimes hard but necessary to face, in computing as in much of life.
11W
WED, Nov. 13
  • DUE: Agent Design: Part I

  • IN LAB (csLab)
    • Natural Language Processing - Part II

12M
MON, Nov. 18

  • IN CLASS
    1. A "writing moment" (from a Pocket Style Manual)
      • (19) The apostrophe
      • (20) Quotation marks

    2. Discussion of Ball et al.'s views
    3. What is the Persona Project at Microsoft?
    4. What is the status of this work today?
12W
WED, Nov. 20
  • IN LAB (Mars Arts Center, Language Lab)
    • PureVoice - recording your own voice; using that audio with your Bot

13M
MON, Nov. 25

  • TO PREPARE FOR TODAY
    1. Q5 is due. Read, take notes, and generate one question (and answer) from chapter 7 of Harel's Computers Ltd. (see bibliography).
    2. Think long and hard; ask and answer ONE good question.

  • IN CLASS
    1. A "writing moment" (from a Pocket Style Manual)
      • (21) Other marks
      • (22) Capitalization

    2. Harel continues to remind us of what computers can not do.
    3. The Turing Test, Big Oh, the halting problem revisited
    4. What are the take home messages for you on this matter?
13W
WED, Nov. 27
  • THANKSGIVING DAY BREAK

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