CSP Materials
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29 Oct 2013 - 00:12
CNN Money: Reading Description: This article from CNN summarizes various viewpoints on how quantum computing will revolutionize our lives in the not too distant future. University of Virginia physicist Stuart Wolf
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29 Oct 2013 - 00:07
Wired: Reading Description: A look at Alan Turing's life and contributions to Computer Science.
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29 Oct 2013 - 00:03
Scientific American: Reading Description: Hans Robinson, assistant professor of physics at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, explains how quantum computing works. The Bloch sphere is a representation of a qubit...
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28 Oct 2013 - 23:52
NY Times: Reading Description: This op-ed article from the New York Times discusses the future and limits of artificial intelligence, and some of the potential pitfalls of ever advancing artificial intelligence. ...
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28 Oct 2013 - 23:48
Brian Harvey's Notes: Reading Description: This text from UC Berkeley Professor Brian Harvey discusses the development and current state of the field of artificial intelligence. It notes two main approaches to AI: top down, using symbolic...
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28 Oct 2013 - 23:45
Computers Solve Checkers: Reading Description: This article from Scientific American documents Jonathan Schaeffer's decades long quest to solve the game of checkers. Image: © ISTOCKPHOTO/CHRISTOPHER O DRISCOLL
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28 Oct 2013 - 23:40
IBM's Watson: Reading Description: This article from the New York Times discusses the story behind IBM's new Jeopardy-playing supercomputer, and why natural language processing is such a hard problem in computer science ...
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28 Oct 2013 - 23:36
NOVA: VIDEO Description: The Great Robot Race is a documentary about the DARPA Grand Challenge in which autonomous vehicles participate in a 100+ mile race across the Mojave desert: "Twenty-three bizarre looking vehicles line up at the...
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28 Oct 2013 - 21:39
Blown To Bits: Reading Description: Chapter from Blown to Bits on the Federal Communications Commission's regulation and censorship of the public airwaves.
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28 Oct 2013 - 21:36
Blown To Bits: Reading Description: This chapter from Blown to Bits discusses regulation on the Internet: Where should regulation occur? Who gets to decide which content is okay? The chapter emphasizes the importance and difficulty of...
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