Preliminaries

• How was last Thursday's lecture?
• Presentations
  • Sign up for presentation slot.
  • Since the presentations will be "online," all will be given in the LMF.

Readings

• For last week (Semantics): Deane 1995 (3), Fillmore 1991 (5), Velardi (18).
• For next week: Gonnet 1984 (7), Shannon and Weaver 1949 (14), Zipf 1935 (20).

Homeworks

• Into the home stretch!
• PERL: This Thursday!
• Encoding: LaTeX demo (both Unix and Mac) on Thursday. More week after next when we do encoding.
• Statistics: Will be ready by Thursday. It will be short.

Upcoming events

• Digital libraries and collaboration, Robert Wilensky (EECS). 4/16 5-7 2050 LSB
• This looks like it might be interesting (from the database point of view) Hierarchical representations of very large data sets for analysis and visualization. Bernd Hamann (Co-Director Center for Image Processing and Integrated Computing
  Department of Computer Science University of California, Davis)
  [April 11, 1997 306 Soda Hall 4-5pm]

Philosophical background

• Intro to cognitive science
• Can computers think?
• The Chinese room: Strong vs. Weak AI
• Consciousness: Searle
• Understanding language may require a body: Turing

History and Prior Art in Artificial Intelligence

• STUDENT
• ELIZA
• Expert Systems
• semantic networks
• SHRDLU

State of the Art

• HAL 9000: Hal, where are you?
• CYC: Ready for takeoff?
• "Finding Naked People" (Forseyth and Fleck)
• "Yellow Flowers": Wilensky