Introduction

29 August - Introduction Course Website

5 September - History, Hype & Reality Computer History Museum - AI & Robotics Kaplan - AI: What Everyone Needs to Know - ch. 1-3

12 September - AI & Communication Turing - Computing Machinery & Intelligence Gunkel - Communication & AI PBS - The Chinese Room (video)

19 September - Basic Concepts & Terminology Kaplan - AI: What Everyone Needs to Know - ch. 4 & 8 Steiner - Algorithms Are Taking Over (video) Garrett - A World Run on Algorithms? Howard - Machine Learning (video) Maker Exercise #1 - Algorithms

Applications

26 September - Machine Translation Weaver Memo Poibeau - Machine Translation (1-89) Gunkel - Machine Translation Maker Exercise #2 - Machine Translation

3 October - Natural Language Processing Weizenbaum - Contextual Understanding by Computers Gunkel - Natural Language Processing RadioLab - Talking to Machines

10 October - Chatbots PandoraBot QuickStart PandoraBot Tutorial Maker Exercise #3 - Chatbot Competition

17 October - Computational Creativity Gunkel - Computational Creativity Colton & Wiggins - Computational Creativity Amper (video) & Taryn Southern - Break Free Sunspring (video) NPR - Cooking with Watson (video) Maker Exercise #4 - TemplateNLG

24 October - Social Robots Gunkel - Social Robots Jibo - Promotional Video Breazeal - Personal Robots (video) Jibo Demo

Social Opportunities & Challenges

31 October - Social Issues Kaplan - AI: What Everyone Needs to Know - ch. 6 & 7 Halpern - How Robots are Taking Over McAfee - Are Droids Taking Our Jobs? (video) PBS - Will Your Job Be Done by a Machine?

7 Novmeber - Ethics, Law and Policy Crawford & Whittaker - AI Now Initiative (video) / (transcript) Knight - The Dark Secret at the Heart of AI Gunkel - Mind the Gap

14 November - Conference No Class Meeting

21 November - Thanksgiving No Class Meeting

28 November - Machine Question & Robot Rights PBS Ideas - When Will We Worry about the Well Being of Robots? (video) The Machine Question, ch. 1 & 2

Course Conclusion

5 December - Robot Apocalypse Maker Exercise #5 - How To Survive the Robot Apocalypse? Course Evaluation Final Exam Study Guide

12 December (6pm) Final Examination