Note: Where links require passwords below, it means the document
may not be openly posted due to copyright restrictions.
To follow link to download the file, see your email for the password.
Also, several of these documents are in the E-reserve on
Blackboard.
Week 1:
Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us, Rodney Brooks (2002) -- pp 12-21, pp 32-51. [NB: On p. 32, "1992" should in fact be "1982"]
(E-reserve for the COS116 on
Blackboard.)
Week 2:
Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us, Rodney Brooks (2002) -- pp 99-126.
(E-reserve for the COS116 on
Blackboard.)
"Computer Recreations: The cellular automaton offers a model of the world and a world unto itself", Brian Hayes, Scientific American, March 1984 [pdf], first 5 pages.
Conway's Game of Life [pdf]
and play it here or
here.
Week 3:
None.
Week 4:
"What is a computation?", Martin Davis [pdf]. (Note: error on page 247 omits step 3 -- see slide 11 of lecture 7 for the correct version.)
