For anyone interested in artificial intelligence, the grand master’s defeat rang like a bell. Newsweek called the match “The Brain’s Last Stand”; another headline dubbed Kasparov “the defender of humanity.” If AI could beat the world’s sharpest chess mind, it seemed that computers would...
What is the history of open source software? The idea of making source code freely available originated in 1983 from an ideological movement informally founded by Richard Stallman, a programmer at MIT. Stallman believed that software should be accessible to programmers so they could modify it as...
My child's experience is not unique. Developmental psychologist Susan Engel notes that curiosity —defined as“spontaneous(自发的) investigation and eagerness for new information”—drops dramatically in children by the fourth grade.In Wonder: Childhood and...
What is the history of AI? The term “artificial intelligence” wascoined in 1956by computer scientist John McCarthy for a workshop at Dartmouth. But he wasn’t the first to write about the concepts we now describe as AI. Alan Turing introduced the concept of the “imitation game” in a...
用谷歌搜索的结果来开启这本书也许是最为后人类主义的姿态。正如我在2008年夏天所写的那样,如果你在谷歌上搜索“人文主义”(humanism),会得到384万条结果;而搜索“后人类主义”(posthumanism)只能得到将近6.02万条(人文主义显然还好好地存活着,尽管有人说它已经消亡了)。粗略一看你就会发现,尽管在数量上有着差别,...
What is the history of AI? The concept of inanimate objects endowed with intelligence has been around since ancient times. The Greek god Hephaestus was depicted in myths as forging robot-like servants out of gold, while engineers in ancient Egypt built statues of gods that could move, animated...
The plan was for McCarthy and a small group of fellow researchers, a who’s-who of postwar US mathematicians and computer scientists—or “John McCarthy and the boys,” as Harry Law, a researcher who studies the history of AI at the University of Cambridge and ethics and policy at Google...
Correction to: Perspective Chapter: MOOC – A Decade Later! What Is the Current Situation in Teacher Education? Advertisement Abstract The growth of distance education, even if in emergency modalities such as those compelled by the pandemic context in which we live in the last 3 years, seems to...
History and Virtual Heritage);萨宾(Sabin,2007)的《失落的战役:重建古代世界的重大冲突》(Lost Battles:Reconstructing the Great Clashes of the Ancient World)以及查普曼(Chapman, 2016)的《数字游戏作为历史:视频游戏如何再现过去并为历史实践提供渠道》(Digital Games as History: How Videogames Represent the ...
根据文中MOOC is short for Massive(大量的) Open Online Course.可知慕课MOOCs是在线网络课程的缩写,故选B。 根据文中You can be anywhere in the world to take it.可知这里的open意为:来自世界各地的学者们都可免费参加课程学习,故选A。 根据文中And all you need is a computer and the Internet.可知...