A Computer/Cognitive scientist's perspective
- Everyone can program!
- Programming is a literacy skill
- "Open source" is how programs will be written
- It allows many to program together
- Computational tools must be accessible to "the public"
- Artificial intelligence
- Building machines that seem smart
- Inference: putting facts together to reach conclusions
- Context: bounding knowledge's relevance
- The Web seems smart!
- Cultural, learning, evolution
- Genes pass on our heritage
- "dual inheritance": So does culture!
- Scientists learn, add to our intellectual heritage
- Teachers insure it is passed along
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Created by rik@cogsci.ucsd.edu 4/12/08