IHSS-1140 Minds & Machines
All Sections
Thursday Night Lectures
Fall 2018
On thursday nights all sections come together and listen to a lecture and/or watch a movie or video pertaining to the material as discussed that week or the next week.
A note on laptops: You are allowed to use your laptop for taking notes ... and for taking notes only! Watching videos, playing games, surfing, messaging, Facebooking, Twittering, or any other form of laptop use that does not pertain directly to the material presented is rude and distracts the people sitting behind you. Of course, the same goes for your phones or other devices.
| Date | Topic | Guest Speaker/Video/Movie | Presentation |
| 8/30 | No Lecture | ||
| 9/6 | Real Minds and Machines |
Movie: The Matrix | What is Real? |
| 9/13 | Conscious Minds and Machines | Video: Secrets of the Mind | Brains and Consciousness |
| 9/20 | Logical Minds and Machines |
Guest Speaker: Selmer Bringsjord |
"Why RPI Undergrads are Smarter then Princeton Undergrads — If Things Go Well Tonight." |
| 9/27 | Free Minds and Machines |
Free Will | |
| 10/4 | Distinct Minds and Machines |
Video: Tuvix | Personal Identity |
| 10/11 | Artificial Minds and Machines |
Video: Data on Trial | The Turing Test |
| 10/18 | Brilliant Minds and Machines |
Movie: Codebreaker | |
| 10/25 | Interactive Minds and Machines |
Guest Speaker: ? | |
| 11/1 | Cathy O'Neill | ||
| 11/8 | |||
| 11/15 | Musical Minds and Machines | Guest Speaker: Mary Simoni? | Enhanced Minds |
| 11/22 | Thanksgiving! (no class) | ||
| 11/29 | ? Minds and Machines | Guest Speaker: Selmer Bringsjord? | |
| 12/6 | Lego Robots Round-up!!!! |