Author: annamritz

Organizational Links

Organizational Links

Reading: “Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework” by Douglas Engelbart.  Excepted from Summary Report AFOSR-3233 under Contract AF 49(638)-1024, SRI Project 3578 for Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Stanford Research Institute, October 1962. (Full reprint here). In these excerpts, Engelbart attempts to capture the complexity of human problems and his framework for “augmenting human intellect” […]

The vision of machine learning, from 1950

The vision of machine learning, from 1950

Reading: “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” by Alan Turing. Mind: A Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy 59(236):433-360. October 1950. (one reprint is here by a quick Google search). Computer scientist majors will learn about the famous Turing Machine in any introductory Theory of Computation class.  They might get a cursory mention of the “Imitation Game,” the subject of […]

We have the data – now what?

We have the data – now what?

This is the first post for a New Media Seminar that I am participating in at Virginia Tech.  The main site for this seminar includes comments on weekly readings.  Seminar Twitter Hashtag: #vtnmss15. Reading: “As We May Think” by Vannevar Bush, Atlantic Monthly, 176(1):101-108. (July 1945). Many of the passages in Vannevar Bush’s article As We […]

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