CSP Materials

31. The First Church of Robotics
(Resource book)
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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30. Brian Harvey's AI notes
(Resource book)
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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29. Computers Solve Checkers—It's a Draw
(Resource book)
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. What is IBM's Watson
(Resource book)
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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27. The Great Robot Race (NOVA)
(Resource book)
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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26. Blown To Bits: Chapter 8
(Resource book)
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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25. Blown To Bits: Chapter 7
(Resource book)
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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22. Blown to Bits: Chapter 5
(Resource book)
28 Oct 2013 - 21:24
Blown To Bits: Chapter 5  Description: Chapter from Blown to Bits on encryption and cryptography.    
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23. Blown to Bits: Chapter 6
(Resource book)
28 Oct 2013 - 21:25
Blown To Bits: Chapter 6  Description: Chapter from Blown to Bits about copyright and intellectual property on the Internet. Discusses file sharing, digital rights management, and related topics.    
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20. Blown to Bits: Chapter 4
(Resource book)
28 Oct 2013 - 21:20
  Blown To Bits: Reading  Description: Chapter from Blown to Bits on search engines as a guide through the unorganized mass of information presented by the internet.    
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