Artificial Intelligence

by Hartsfield, Ross, and Webb

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• Games
  • Most Popular
    • Chess-- involves two players (man or computer) each possessing an initial force of a king, a queen, two bishops, two knights, two rooks and eight pawns. All of these are maneuvered following individual rules of movement. The objective is to checkmate the opposing king.
    • Checkers-- involves two players each using 12 pieces moving them across a checkered board or screen.
    • Othello-- old Japanese board game, much like chess and more complex than checkers. By playing this game on computors there is an attractive domain for experimenting with automatic learning methods.
• Robotics
  • Past
    • History-- Man has dreamed of robots for centries, many ancient myths told of mechnical beings coming to life. Such so called automata even appeared in medival churches. 18th century clockmakers became well known for mechanical figures they constructed. The invention of computors in the 1940s made robots as we know them possible. The first true robot , named SHAKEY, by its creators at Stanford Research Institute , was designed in late 1960s. By the mid 70s GM and MIT researchers expanded upon the motor driven arm to create the first industrial robots http://unr.edu/homepage/otto/CH16/robot.html

     

  • Present
    • Robots are used most often in industry and exploration, but at the present time engineers are trying to find away for humans and machines to interact with each other in more humanistic ways. This site shows proof of all the things going on with robotics. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/misc/mosaic/common/omega/Web/Groups/xavier/www/xavier.html
  • Future
    • The future is very bright for robotics. As long as there are jobs that are to time consuming, to dangerous or simply absurd for people to do robots will take over where human counterparts leave off. They will invade your veins and arteries, attacking infectious bacteria, destroy cancers too dangerous to operate on. They will give Scientist new insight into the habits of insects and possiblely restructure society itself. And of course they will continue to walk on other plantes, dive ocean trenches and assemble cars and trucks. They will do all these things without complaining and without paid holidays. Watch Out!

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• URLs
  • Artificial Intelligence--tutorial, interm., long, links, graphics
    • Comprehensive review of AI, topics covered are: modern theoretical antecedents, first successes in AI, microworlds, expert systems, and frames and scripts. http://www.geneseo.edu/~intd225/artint.html
  • Agents, Infobots, and Knowbots--index, basic, medium, links
    • Page has sections on: agents, messengers, InfoBots, KnowBots, and Interface agents. http://www.hypernews.org/~liberte/computing/agents.html
  • Computers: From the Past to the Present--tutorial, interm., medium, links, graphics
    • Comprehensive look at computers and computation from prehistoric time until the present. Topics included are: the difference engine, Alan Turing, the creation of Microsoft, the Web, and more. http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/groups/se/people/hoyle/Lecture/
  • Present Uses of Robotics--index, tutorial, medium, graphics, links
    • Present Uses of Robotics. As the computers of today grow more and more sophisticated, the uses of robotics will increase tremendously in the future. http://www.ashland.edu/~rdorn/robotics/uses.htm
  • Do You Know... when it was invented? --turorial, interm
    • Find out what year thing's were invented, from Crayon's to Cloning! Ninety years of inventions from year 1900 to 1990! http://www.yettie.com/douknow/

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