2008년 4월 26일 토요일

Summary of last class 6

Wednesday - Friday (04.23- 04.25)

"Human-computer interaction"

This week we learn about human-computer interaction.
Key point is people often interact with media technologies as though the technologies were people.Here are many related pints: ethics, aesthetics& teleology,designand here are some questions.
Questions of ethics-Should we treat technologies as people or people as technologies?-Should we only treat others who are like us eith care and respect? or, should we also extend our care and respect to others who are radically different?-What makes believe someone or something is alive, thinking, or simply the same as us?
Questions of aesthetics& teleology-Do objects, technologies and natural phenomena have goals and intentions?-Or, do they just look like they have goals and intentions?DesignIf we view objects, technologies and natural phenomenon as if they do, in fact, have goals and intentions, then we will design like an artificial intelligence researcher.On the other hand, if we view objects, technologies and natural phenomenon as if the just look like they have goals and intentions, then we will design like a tool builder for human "users" or "operators" of our toolsTo tell the truth I'm not thinking about questions. but maby I'm thinking questions and write the answer.
This time was so exciting because saw many video files. I like it!

2008년 4월 13일 일요일

Summary of last class 5

Friday (04.11)

"Artificial Intelligence"

Today, I learned about 'A.I(artificial intelligence)'. It is the science and engineering of making intelligent machines, especially intelligent computer programs. It is related to the similar task of using computers to understand human intelligence, but AI does not have to confine itself to methods that are biologically observable. So when did AI research start? A. After WWII, a number of people independently started to work on intelligent machines.
The English mathematician Alan Turing may have been the first. He gave a lecture on it in 1947. He also may have been the first to decide that AI was best researched by programming computers rather than by building machines. By the late 1950s, there were many researchers on AI, and most of them were basing their work on programming computers. And I learned what is the Turing test, too.
A. Alan Turing's 1950 article Computing Machinery and Intelligence Tur50 discussed conditions for considering a machine to be intelligent. He argued that if the machine could successfully pretend to be human to a knowledgeable observer then you certainly should consider it intelligent. This test would satisfy most people but not all philosophers. The observer could interact with the machine and a human by teletype (to avoid requiring that the machine imitate the appearance or voice of the person), and the human would try to persuade the observer that it was human and the machine would try to fool the observer.

I Think. The ultimate effort is to make computer programs that can solve problems and achieve goals in the world as well as humans. However, many people involved in particular research areas are much less ambitious.

2008년 4월 5일 토요일

Summary of last class 4

Wednesday - Friday (04.02- 04.04)

"Social Network"

In this week's main idea was 'Social Network'. And it means a social structure made of nodes (which are generally individuals or organizations) that are tied by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as friends, dislike, conflict, trade, sexual relations airline routes. The resulting structures are usally intricate.
Social networks as science, physicians and mathematicians have made a huge contribution in understanding networks by using diagrams. And the network will affect me, every individual. Social capital is the central of the network and it is very important. If we don’t have it, we won’t have structure and we would e all scattered. Actually, there would be no networks.
But the oter side, Social networks as art, people at first time drew it by hands, but these days, people use computers to draw them as it is getting more complicated and it looks neat. Art is contributing in how to show the diagrams. This was little hard than last week. To be frankly, I didn't listen carefully but also this week's terminology was little hard to me. But I'll go through it, to study englidh more harder and listen carefully. Thank you.