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. >> -------------- next part -------------- >> HTML attachment scrubbed and removed >> _______________________________________________ >> SWI-Prolog mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.iai.uni-bonn.de/mailman/listinfo.cgi/swi-prolog > >_______________________________________________ >SWI-Prolog mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.iai.uni-bonn.de/mailman/listinfo.cgi/swi-prolog -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed _______________________________________________ SWI-Prolog mailing list [email protected] https://lists.iai.uni-bonn.de/mailman/listinfo.cgi/swi-prolog