| Week | Dates | Topics | Readings and Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sept. 3-5 | Introduction to Scheme and Recursion | LS Chapters 1-3; GEB handout |
| 2 | Sept. 10-12 | Simple Recursion | LS Chapters 4-6 |
| 3 | Sept. 17-19 | Structural Recursion | Last day to add: Monday 9/16 LS Chapters 7-8 |
| 4 | Sept. 24-26 | Data Abstraction | CA Chapters 1-2, section 3.3 |
| 5 | Oct. 1 | Higher-Order Procedures | CA Chapter 5 |
| Oct. 3 | EXAM 1: Thursday, 7-9pm in Millikan 211 | ||
| 6 | Oct. 8-10 | The Turing Test Input/Output; Sequential Execution |
CA Chapter 6 Computing Machinery and Intelligence (Turing) A Coffeehouse Conversation on the Turing Test (Hofstadter) |
| 7 | Oct. 15-17 | Natural Language Query System | CA Chapter 7 |
| 8 | Oct. 22 | F A L L B R E A K | |
| Oct. 24 | Turing Machines and Computability Scheme Vectors |
Last day to P/NC or drop: Thursday 10/24 |
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| 9 | Oct. 29-31 | Universal Turing Machines | Proof or Consequences (Casti) |
| 10 | Nov. 5-7 | Physical Symbol Systems The Chinese Room |
Computer Science as Empirical Inquiry (Newell and
Simon) Minds, Brains, and Programs (Searle) |
| 11 | Nov. 12 | Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming | A Conversation with Einstein's Brain (Hofstadter) |
| Nov. 14 | EXAM 2 | ||
| 12 | Nov. 19-21 | Object-Oriented Programming Neural Network Models of Memory |
The Appeal of Parallel Distributed Processing (McClelland, Rumelhart, Hinton) |
| 13 | Nov. 26 | Neural Network Models of Learning Introduction to Robotics |
Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology (Braitenberg) |
| Nov. 28 | T H A N K S G I V I N G B R E A K | ||
| 14 | Dec. 3-5 | Braitenberg Vehicles Embodied Cognition |
Intelligence Without Representation (Brooks) |
| 15 | Dec. 10 | Subsumption Architecture | |
| FINAL EXAM: Thursday, December 19, 9:00 AM | |||