JINS 319 Schedule

JINS 319 Class Schedule

August

Mon 17	Wed 19	Fri 21 Intro to course expectations Intro to each other
Mon 24 Interdisciplinarity What your discipline says about thinking	Wed 26 Topic: The Human Mind Reading: Pinker Ch 1 (outline due) Assignment: Short Paper 1 assigned	Fri 28 Topic: Models of Minds Reading: Pinker Ch 2 (outline due)
Mon 31 Watch Pinker video	Wed Sep 2 Topic: Descartes and the Science of the Mind Leader: Dr. Garvey	Fri Sep 4 Topic: Mind Design Leader: Dr. Garvey Reading: Mind Design by John Haugeland(ab)

September

Mon 7 No CLASS due to Labor Day Holiday	Wed 9 Topic: Reading in the Brain Leader: Dr. Garvey Reading: Reading in the Brain chapter summaries and figures by Stanislas Dehaene(Expect a short quiz)	Fri 11 Assignment: Short Paper 1 draft due Assignment: Peer Review assigned Hands on example: try out some fun programs Meet in VH 1232 Computer Classroom Try having a conversation with A.L.I.C.E. a recent Loebner Prize winner. Or Mitsuku the most recent Loebner contest winner. Look at more information on the Loebner Prize Try translating sentences at Google's translation site Play 20 questions against a really smart neural network. Explore Chinook a very smart checkers playing program.
Mon 14 Topic: Turing Test Leader: Dr. Garvey Reading: Computing Machinery and Intelligence by Alan Turing (ab)	Wed 16 Topic: Turing Test continued Leader: Dr. Garvey Assignment: Peer Reviews due Reading: Feigenbaum (When you access this link from a Truman IP address, you should see a Full Text PDF link. Click on it to access the paper.) (ab)	Fri 18 Topic: Turing Test continued Leader: Dr. Garvey Reading: The Rules, Kurzweil position, Kapor position and Kurzweil's final response. (no ab) Assignment: Short Paper 1 final due Assignment: Short Paper 2 assigned
Mon 21 Topic: Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Hands on example: sorting Leader: Dr. Garvey	Wed 23 Topic: Minsky on Frames Leader: Dr. Garvey Reading: Minsky's Frame System Theory by Marvin Minsky (ab or questions) The longer techreport version is also available.	Fri 25 Topic: Lenat/CYC on Common Sense Reading: Commonsense Reasoning and Commonsense Knowledge in Artificial Intelligence by Davis and Marcus (must come from a Truman IP address) Student Leaders: Gens and Malmstrom
Mon 28 Topic: Damasio on Emotions in humans Student Leaders: Ward and Clark	Wed 30 Topic: Picard on Emotions in computers Leader: Dr. Garvey Reading: Picard online tech report (ab)	Fri Oct 2 Assignment: Short Paper 2 due Topic: Boden on Creativity Student Leaders: Nguyen and Shadowens

October

Mon 5 Topic: Searle on Philosophical Objections to classic AI Leader: Dr. Garvey Reading: Minds, Brains and Programs by John Searle (no ab) (notice the change here) Assignment: Short Paper 3 assigned Assignment: Research paper topic & bibliography out	Wed 7 Topic: Pfeifer & Scheier on Other Objections to classic AI Student Leader: Price and Gershman	Fri 9 Hands on examples from Mind Hacks Meet in VH 1232 Computer Classroom Explore your blindspot Theology of the Stroop Effect about fast versus slow processing in the brain. Explore the effects of shadows on our perception of movement. This is a bigger version of essentially the same movie. More demos are available from Kersten Lab. More cool shadow and luminance examples. Various Motion effect demonstrations. An example of motion after-effect with text.
Mon 12 Topic: Clark on Biological Constraints Leader: Dr. Garvey	Wed 14 Topic: Johnson on Embodied Intelligence Student Leaders: Bengtson and Ruedi	Fri 16 Mid-term Break No class
Mon 19 Assignment: Research paper topic & bibliography due Assignment: Short Paper 3 due Topic: Evolutionary Computation Leader: Dr. Garvey Online tutorial that we will look at.	Wed 21 Topic: Connectionism Student Leaders: Todd and Marshall	Fri 23 Topic: Connectionism and Artificial Life Self-replicating robots Leader: Dr. Garvey
Mon 26 Topic: Conway's Game of Life Student Leaders: Bergt and Lovera	Wed 28 Topic: Kurzweil on the Singularity Student Leaders: Walsh and Derry	Fri 30 Topic: van Gelder on Dynamical Systems Student Leader: Kartje and Talerico

November

Mon 2 Topic: Consciousness Student Leaders: Rahe and Powers	Wed 4 Topic: Consciousness Student Leaders: Jennings and McElveen	Fri 6 Emotionally-aware robots: Kismet Student Leaders: Mills, Leighton and Lally
Mon 9 Assignment: Research paper draft due	Wed 11 Student Research Presentations Presenters: Gens, Derry, Talerico, Marshall, Leighton	Fri 13 Student Research Presentations Presenters: Lovera, Powers, Gershman, Bergt, Jennings
Mon 16 Student Research Presentations Presenters: Bengtson, Ruedi, McElveen, Mills, Clark	Wed 18 Student Research Presentations Presenters: Kartje, Walsh, Rahe, Nguyen, Lally	Fri 20 Student Research Presentations Presenters: Malmstrom, Todd, Shadowens, Ward, Price
Mon 23 No class: Thanksgiving Break	Wed 25 No class: Thanksgiving Break	Fri 27 No class: Thanksgiving Break
Mon 30 Topic: Agent-Based Modeling and NetLogo NetLogo Web Leader: Dr. Garvey	Wed Dec 2 Behavior-based Robotics Leader: Dr. Garvey MIT Cog Project Behavior-based robotics tutorial	Fri Dec 4 Last day of class Final version of research paper due

December

Mon 7

Tue 8

Short meeting during Final time: 1:30pm

Wed 9

Thur 10

Fri 11