SCXT 350
Exam #1 Review
Disclaimer: I have attempted to be comprehensive in the following,
but important items may have been omitted by mistake. If you see such
an omission, please let me know, but you are responsible for all of
the lecture material to date.
The first hour exam will be held on Friday, Sept. 22. It will
cover
- Copeland, chapters 1 - 3
- The Turing paper
- Lisp (to the extent covered in the homework)
- Course notes (see part01.ppt)
- Video (to be seen Monday and Wednesday)
Be able to
- Discuss Descartes opinion on the idea of intelligent machines,
and how Turing responds to it.
- Give a description of artificial intelligence, and describe
(via Copeland and the video to be shown Monday and Wednesday) some
of the efforts in the discipline.
- Give a description of the Turing Test, Turing's argument, his
description of a "universal computer", and his response to some
concerns (of his own invention). Paper and chapter 3.
- Give a description of what a computer is, how it works, what
it can do (notes).
- Give a description of an algorithm, and say how algorithms may
relate to cognitive science. (Turing-Church hypothesis, basic
CogSci assumption).
- Very basic Lisp (only to the extent in the homework
assignment). What is the relation between a Lisp routine and an
algorithm?
There may be more, but I think that's it. If you have any questions,
please ask.