Cognitive Science

Test 3

Answer the following questions by no later than 1 p.m. thursday May 15. Of course, you may turn it in before then. Use the URLs provided and any other materials you find.

1. What is a BEAM robot? (see http://sst.lanl.gov/robot/) How does their effort contribute to the development of robotics, artificial life, and to cognitive science.

2. Discuss cryptography. Talk about ciphers and codes. Finally, relate why cryptography is important to cognitive science. Use the following URLs:

http://ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au/CS/student-info/cs1/Lecture_notes/milieu/Miscellaneous/cryptography.html

http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/newfaq/

3. How would you improve the Web-based teaching of this course? Be specific to this course! Use the following URLs:

http://www.wayne.edu/wtt/benefits.html

http://www.wayne.edu/wtt/disadv.html

http://www.edu.yorku.ca/~rowston/article.html

http://www.ola.edu.au/paper4.htm

http://edfu.lis.uiuc.edu/review/summer1996/mcfarland.html (especially Appendix A)

4. To test your practical knowledge of knowledge discovery, provide a list of no more than 10 URLs that you discovered, your grade will be based on the quality (judged by me) of the URLs you find. You may choose from any ONE of the following topics. Also, briefly describe the discovery strategy you used to find the URLs you list (search terms used, combinations of search terms, discovery of unrealized search terms during your search, use of intelligent agents, etc.). Terms:

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