Note:Where links require passwords below, it means the document
may not be openly posted due to copyright restrictions.
The password was given on the first day of lecture, is posted on the
Blackboard page for
this class, and should have come to you in email on February 7.
Week 1:
Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us,
Rodney Brooks (2002) --
pp 12-21 and
pp 32-51.
[NB: On p. 32, "1992" should in fact be "1982".]
Week 2:
Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us,
Rodney Brooks (2002) --
pp 99-126.
"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.
Week 3:
None.
Week 4:
"What is a computation?", Martin Davis [pdf]. (Note: error on page 247 omits step 3 -- see slide 12 of
lecture 7 for the correct version.)
