Re: Muahh haa haaa....

Igor Wojnicki <[email protected]>
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That's funny (not) coincidence. 

My wife is a psychologist. When I showed her a Prolog code explaining what it does she was suprised when I told her that it is not usual way computers are programmed.

It seems that knowledge-based approach is far easier to understand to non-programers. 

Igor

Derek Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
>Ha!….
> 
>Back in the day when I worked in a Psychology dept… (as an electronic
>engineer doing AI to create artificial vision for self-driving vehicles
>[how's that for a mixture! :-) ] - hey - what goes around comes around
>huh - Google car anyone? )
>
>Back in that day, … we taught the cog sci psych students UNIX as their
>first OS and Quintus Prolog as their 1st language to do speech analysis
>(the dept was big on linguistics too.)
>
>Anyway - glad to hear that that's happening there - and being
>prodcutive. 
>
>In the vision lab we also used Common Lisp (am I allowed to say those
>words here ;-) ? ) to do robotic arm control for pick'n'place tasks and
>scene analysis. 
>
>Ah - reminiscing….!
>
>Kind regards
>
>Derek.
>
>On Jan 10, 2014, at 12:29 PM, Anne Ogborn <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Dr Lee Sebastiani at Marywood College has a cognitive science course.
>> She's teaching Prolog as part of the course...
>> most of the students are psych or art history majors and most have
>never programmed before.
>> 
>> So all these students are getting prolog as a first language.
>> One pair of students wrote an expert system to select TV shows based
>on hacking up the old
>> AMZI 'birds' tutorial. This isn't bad considering it's the first
>program they've ever written!
>> 
>> Further, they've got a Finch robot. Making the finch run about from
>SWI seems like a great intro to programming.
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