Coming soon: turn heat into electricity.

the camera is broken. 8^(

Loebner Prize

Scroll down this page to see links to online conversational "AI" programs.

Presentations and Debates

As you all know, you have some major projects coming up. If anyone wants help getting their debate together, please let me know, and I will try to come to your group meetings when you are practing for it.

Also, since your presentations and paper look like a lot of work, I would be more than happy to sit down with anyone and work out outlines or go through ideas for the presentation. 10 pages is a lot of information and most of you are probably totally freaked out by this-- if you gather information I will help you sort through it and give you my best suggestions on how to organize it and such.

I still have a good chunk of money to use at Rifkin for you guys, I can't keep taking the same people.... so nows the perfect time to take me up on some free food and get off to a good start on your projects :)

-Nicole

Wednesday

instead of movie questions, I'll remind you to find those photos for friday - Six men, six women that you feel strongly about. The photos should be of similar size. If you do not have photos, I will supply you with standard ESP cards.

Here is the CS 115 Vampire Lab

Presentation Schedule

This will wake you up!

Here is the Presentation Schedule for your term project.

CS 115 Lab

In class today we will first look at/discuss the FYF posters.

Then I will talk briefly about network bandwidth.

Then you will do this lab. Most of the links are not hot because the second time you run the test, your computer's cache may affect the results - so I want you to cut and paste and *deliberately* run the tests.

Debate Assignments

There are no people who possess or manifest real supernatural abilities. Those who claim to are either faking or fooling themselves.

The Debate will be help Nov 20th, one week from today.

10 AM FOR

Jim Helleher
Adam Szumski
Frank D'Angelo
Clint Fought

10 AM AGAINST

Hadizat Daudu
Ashli Rentzel
Josh Deivert

11 AM FOR

Wei Shang
Dave Blasko
Josh Levy

11 AM AGAINST

Brice Biruta
Soo Yeon Chang
Lauren Mannion
Adam Witinski


Any student from the first debate who would like a debate grade "do-over" may speak to one of the groups above and ask them if they may participate in the second debate.

The FYF Prophecies

I
    Under the ground a tremble was made
    as people kept admiring the sea
    none understood why the water did fade
    then seeing terror they began to flee

II
    the sky will cry
    waves of tears
    numerous people will die
    the rest will run in fear

III
    Sun, earth, sky enveloped in water
    life destroyed by a new wave
    prejudiced not against son or daughter
    the world drowned us all, freedom enslaved

IV
    One nice day in the sea
    a hunter swam with the rays
    not realizing how dangerous it could be
    the mistake caused the end of his days

V
    Once black, once platinum, now white
    one who is a gloved demon
    held a child in plain sight
    has the whole world scream

VI
    They think two stubs hit the floor
    as night fell footsteps were heard
    the deeds perceived were all that and much more
    the truth came out, the press went absurd

VII
    Words blur as he denies
    wagging finger firm
    but sullied blue addresses lies
    yet finishes out his term

VIII
    The girls to die, the men to mourn
    It was a shock
    to those who would not conform
    yet their love held firm like a rock

IX
    The wolf wrapped in chastise
    condemning the martyr fully
    two mountains will rise
    to overrule his ruling

X
    In the state of Virginia of the west
    an unlucky number gives proof
    a strange unknown winged pest
    gave heed of water rising above an auto roof

XI
    Flowing black skins of leather
    masking two lost souls
    sunny outside, inside stormy weather
    in their minds, fulfilling their roles

Can you identify any that you didn't write?

Our final exams

class @ MWF 10 AM -> exam Tuesday 12/12 10:30 AM
class @ MWF 11 AM -> exam Wednesday 12/13 8:00 AM

class @ MWF 1 PM -> exam Friday 12/15 8:00 AM
class @ MWF 2 PM -> exam Saturday 12/16 10:30 AM

Me Again...

So.... you all did a fantastic job voting for me... and i won!

Now I get to harass you again to vote for me on national level.... (in which the prize is wayyyy better)

I know that some of the costumes are definitly better than mine, and are homemade and whatnot, but I hope you still stick by your fellow FYF buddy and vote for me anyways :)

http://www.dailyjolt.com/contests/halloween/2006/castyourballot.html

-Nicole

11 AM Debate signup

There are no people who possess or manifest real supernatural abilities. Those who claim to are either faking or fooling themselves.

If you were not in the first debate, sign up below indicating which side you want to be on for the second debate.

Sign up by thursday, or your side will be assigned.

PRO argues for the proposition
CON argues against the proposition

at most, 4 people per side

10 AM Debate Signup

There are no people who possess or manifest real supernatural abilities. Those who claim to are either faking or fooling themselves.

If you were not in the first debate, sign up below indicating which side you want to be on for the second debate.

Sign up by thursday, or your side will be assigned.

PRO argues for the proposition
CON argues against the proposition

at most, 5 people per side

no movie questions.

study for friday's CS 115 exam!

Watch for monday

FYF Poster

I found this old rubrick for judging FYF posters. The scoring will probably be similar this year:
We'll all look at your preliminary designs on MONDAY!

Wow!

The professor behind that Bigfoot video we saw in class is really taking some heat!

In next week's movie, Cryptomnesia (Cryptonesia) is briefly mentioned. The wikipedia entry is quite interesting, especially when you look at its talk page: "This article... seems like 100% made up crap" someone writes. LOL. But at the very end of the entry the court case in which George Harrison was sued for plagiarism is discussed. (You may recall in CS 115 I played clips from both songs during my intellectual property lecture.)

Favor

Hey guys,

Totally off topic of any FYF or CS issue... but if you all could take a couple seconds and go to the Wilkes Daily Jolt website, they asked me to submit a picture of my Halloween costume and theres a voting on the best. If you could do me a favor and vote for me I would love you all... Heres the link to the site: http://wilkes.dailyjolt.com/

I'm #14 (Batgirl) and you just have to enter you name, wilkes email and number you want to vote for.
I figured asking an entire class to vote would get me somewhere, so I really appreciate it!!

Thanks!
Nicole

Wednesday - Is seeing believing?

Bermuda Triangle Mystery solved.

Face on Mars then and now. But also proof that is is artificial!

An article about finding the mars landers. Software bugs causing real problems.

Please read Chapter Five in our SM text and this old psychology experiment about eyewitness observation for discussion friday.

Here is today's CS 115 lab.