This evolving schedule specifies what students are expected to have read in preparation for each class period. The schedule may be revised at any time to adjust to the pace of the class. Revisit daily to stay up to date on your assignments.
The readings are supposed to have been completed before the class meets on the specified dates.
Some materials will be made available here as hyperlinks, others will be on the Moodle course site, so be sure to visit both.
| Date | Topics | Readings Due | Assignments Due | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01/17/2017 | Introduction | Robert Epstein, "The empty brain" Gary Marcus, "Face it, your brain is a computer" | [1] [2] | |
| 01/19/2017 | Technological determinism | Start reading Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | Journal 1 1/20/2017 | |
| 01/24/2017 | "Expo: The Chicago World's Fair" | Anson Rabinbach, The Human Motor - Intro, Chapter 1 | ||
| 01/26/2017 | Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court; Anson Rabinbach, The Human Motor - Chapter 2 | Journal 2 1/20/2017 | ||
| 01/31/2017 | Anson Rabinbach, The Human Motor - Chapters 5, 6 Start reading Stephen Crane's Red Badge of Courage | |||
| 02/01/2017 | ||||
| 02/07/2017 | ||||
| 02/09/2017 | Stephen Crane's Red Badge of Courage | Paper 1 | ||
| 02/14/2017 | Ethics | Readings on Moodle | [1] | |
| 02/16/2017 | Science Fiction | Isaac Asimov, The Bicentennial Man Start reading Isaac Asimov's The Caves of Steel | Journal 02/17/2017 | |
| 02/21/2017 | The "Slave Code" Machine Metaethics | Readings on Moodle | [1] | |
| 02/23/2017 | Isaac Asimov's The Caves of Steel | |||
| 02/28/2017 | Automation and Robotics | Readings on Moodle | Journal 02/28/2017 | |
| 03/02/2017 | Machines that "think" | Isaac Asimov: All the Troubles of the World and The Last Question | ||
| 03/07/2017 | Discussion of AMC's Humans | Start reading Samuel Delany's Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand | ||
| 03/09/2017 | Paper 2 03/10/2017 | |||
| 03/14/2017 | SPRING RECESS | |||
| 03/16/2017 | SPRING RECESS | |||
| 03/21/2017 | Review (semiotic square) Book analysis Information Retrieval | Samuel Delany's Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand | Toward a GI | |
| 03/23/2017 | ||||
| 03/28/2017 | Modeling and Understanding Memory | Start reading Kazuo Ishiguro's The Buried Giant | Memory | |
| 03/29/2017 | Movie at 7:00pm Campus Theater | A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), Steven Spielberg | ||
| 03/30/2017 | Project Workshop | Posters | ||
| 04/04/2017 | Discussion of Christopher Nolan's Memento | |||
| Discussion of Christopher Nolan's Memento | ||||
| 04/06/2017 | ||||
| 04/11/2017 | In-class poster presentations | Kazuo Ishiguro's The Buried Giant | ||
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| 04/25/2017 | ||||
| 04/27/2017 |