Week of November 9 - 13, 2015

Monday:
Informatics Part II due at beginning of class.  

Continue with discussion of Robotics and AI: 

• "Smartest Machine on Earth" (NOVA episode) (52:14)
• Introducing Spot (2:15) 
• Sebastian Thrun - Google's Driverless Car (4:14)
• Robots that Learn from People (3:43)
• A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors (1:43)
• RoboBees - Design Poses Intriguing Engineering Challenge (2:20)
• MIT's Nexi MDS Robot - First Test of Expression (1:12)
• Robot Baby Learns How to Express Human Emotion (2:01)
• "The Future of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence" (Andrew Ng, a machine learning expert from Stanford) (16:26)
• Humans Need Not Apply (15:00)
• How to Survive A Robot Uprising (4:02)
• AI vs AI, Two Chatbots Talking to Each Other (1:24)

Tuesday:

Review any questions before the midterm.

Complete videos, discussion of Robotics/AI
Hand out "Soldering is Easy" - read for Thursday

Wednesday:

(Group 2 current events:

P1: Zachary K, Michael, Emily, Juliet, Varoon, Noel, Eesha, Elena, Alex
P2: Jess, Reese, Karly, Ian, Katharine, Mayuri, Deven, Arianna, Stacy)

Midterm exam

Thursday:

Hand out computer hardware vocabulary worksheet - due Tuesday

Hand out Cartoon Guide to Computers - read p 47 - 65 for Tuesday.

Introduce Soldering: How To Solder video, in-class worksheet

Discuss basic electronics - circuits, resistors, capacitors, LEDs, transistors
Hardware basics - input, output, storage, processing worksheet in class

Begin discussing history of computers - Jacquard, Babbage
Video: Babbage's Difference Engine

Friday:

Soldering lab - build a blinky thing (technically it's called a multivibrator circuit. . . )