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School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences

First Year School Course -- CG019

COGNITIVE MODELLING

Seminar Week 1: Summer Term 2002

Steve Torrance and Benedict du Boulay

The aims of this seminar are

• to go over the main points of the first lecture and lab class of the course;
• to provide students with an opportunity to ask any questions about the structure and organization of the course; and
• to discuss some basic issues concerning artificial intelligence, cognitive science and the computer-based approaches to cognitive modelling studied in this course.

You should read ``A Personal View of Artificial Intelligence'', by Aaron Sloman - the Foreword to [SHH$^+$89]. Come prepared to discuss the strengths and limitations of the ``Design for an Intelligent System'' given there (pp. xxv ff).

You should also read sections 3.1 to 3.6 of Ch. 3, ``Stored Knowledge'', by Steve Torrance, in the same volume. This will provide a useful introduction to the Blocks World exercise to be taken in the Lab Class in week 2.

Bibliography

SHH$^+$89

Mike Sharples, David Hogg, Chris Hutchison, Steve Torrance, and David Young.
Computers and thought: a practical introduction to Artificial Intelligence.
Bradford Books/MIT Press, Cambridge MA, 1989.
QZ 1250 Com.