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26 Cards in this Set
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Agent |
An entity that percieves and acts |
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algorithim |
A set of percise instruction for solving a problem or attaining a goal |
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analytic engine |
an early computer invented by charles Babbage that was to be a general programmable computing machine to add subtract multiply and divide |
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Artificial entity |
an entity produced by man not occuring naturally |
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Artificial intelligence |
the study of modeling human mental functions by computers |
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Behavior based AI |
An approach in robotics that focuses on robots that are able to exhibit complex appearing behaviors despite little internal variable state to model its current enviornment, mostly gradually correcting its actions via motor sensory links |
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Bottom up experiment |
an approach in modeling intelligence in which the starting point of processing is sensory stimuli rather than a master design or higher level knowledge |
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Central processing unit CPU |
brains of the computer where most of the calculations take place |
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Computation |
the act of mathmatical calculation in a computer |
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Difference engine |
An automatic mechanical calculator designed to tabulate polynomial functions, by using a small set of polynomial differences |
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embodied cognition |
Holds that all aspects of the mind rely on the interaction of the body with its environment |
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ENIAC |
First electronic general purpose computer capable of solving a large class of numerical problems |
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Finite state machines |
A computing machine that by means of a finite number of symbols instructions and states of memmory preforms a sequence of steps to achive its results. It is at any moment during its functioning in one of finite set of states in which part of the computation has been preformed and the result restored |
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Formal operations |
Developmental stage in which we are capable of reasoning abstract situations |
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Functionalism |
the view that mental states are defined by their functional relations or the role they play and not by any particular kind of physical realization |
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general purpose programmable computing machine |
which would add subtract multiply and divide |
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Mathmatical tables |
lists of numbers showing the results of calcualtion with varying arguments |
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Memory |
the faculty of the mind where it rembers and stores information |
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polymath |
a person of wide range of learning and knowledge |
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Processor |
machine that processes information |
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program |
coded instructions for the automatic performance of a particular task |
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Punch card |
A typical program deck that would consist of cards containing the program code followed by a card containing the data |
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Turing machine |
Alan Turings hypothetical machine with an infinite tape from which it reads to or which it writes. the machine is at any given time in a particular state and is able on reading a symbol on the tape to determine succesive changes in its state. Such a machine would by means of algorithims be able to preform any computational process that can be preformed |
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Turing test |
Devised by alan turing the turing test is a game in which an interrigator asks questions of both a human being and a programmed computer simulating a human being to determine whether the computer is adequately simulating the human mind. If the interrogator cannot tell the difference between them the simulation is deemed succesful |
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universal machine |
A machine that carries out any program it is equipped to read. the main principles and future applications of the universal machine were formulated by alan turing. In effect the combination of a modern day computer and the programs it can read constitutes a universal machine |
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Von Neumann architecture |
advances in computers from breakingciphers to guiding and building bombs |
