| Week |
Dates |
Tuesday |
Friday |
| 1 |
Jan. 27 |
(no class)
|
Emergence and the Game of Life
|
| 2 |
Jan. 31 - Feb. 3 |
Reading discussion:
Dialogue: Prelude... Ant Fugue
Chapter X: Levels of Description, and Computer Systems
|
Ant colonies
|
| 3 |
Feb. 7 - 10 |
Reading discussion:
Chapter XI: Brains and Thoughts
|
Neural networks
|
| 4 |
Feb. 14 - 17 |
Reading discussion:
Dialogue: English French German Suite
Chapter XII: Minds and Thoughts
|
Language translation
|
| 5 |
Feb. 21 - 24 |
Reading discussion:
Dialogue: Aria with Diverse Variations
Chapter XIII: BlooP and FlooP and GlooP
|
BlooP and FlooP programming
|
| 6 |
Feb. 28 - Mar. 3 |
Reading discussion:
Dialogue: Air on G's String
Chapter XIV: On Formally Undecidable Propositions
|
The Halting problem in FlooP
|
| 7 |
Mar. 7 - 10 |
Introduction to Turing Machines
|
Universal Turing Machines
|
|
SPRING BREAK
|
| 8 |
Mar. 21 - 24 |
Reading discussion:
Dialogue: Birthday Cantatatata ...
Chapter XV: Jumping Out of the System
|
Levels of infinity
|
| 9 |
Mar. 28 - Mar. 31 |
Reading discussion:
Dialogue: Edifying Thoughts of a Tobacco Smoker
Chapter XVI: Self-Ref and Self-Rep
|
Genetic algorithms
|
| 10 |
Apr. 4 - 7 |
Reading discussion:
Dialogue: The Magnificrab, Indeed
Chapter XVII: Church, Turing, Tarski, and Others
|
The Turing Test and the Chinese Room
|
| 11 |
Apr. 11 - 14 |
Reading discussion:
Dialogue: SHRDLU, Toy of Man's Designing
Chapter XVIII: Artificial Intelligence: Retrospects
|
AI programs that use natural language
|
| 12 |
Apr. 18 - 21 |
Reading discussion:
Dialogue: Contrafactus
Chapter XIX: Artificial Intelligence: Prospects
|
AI programs that make analogies
|
| 13 |
Apr. 25 - Apr. 28 |
Reading discussion:
Dialogue: Sloth Canon
Chapter XX: Strange Loops, Or Tangled Hierarchies
|
AI programs that make music
|
| 14 |
May 2 - 5 |
Reading discussion and wrap-up:
Dialogue: Six-Part Ricercar
|
Conference project presentations |
| 15 |
May 9 |
Conference project presentations |
(no class) |