INF5020 - Autumn 2004

LECTURE PLAN AND HAND-OUTS, INF5020, FALL 2004

 

Lecturers:

?         M. Naci Akk?k (NAK) (nacia at ifi.uio.no)

?         Erek G?kt?rk (EG) (erek at ifi.uio.no)

 

NOTE that the plan may change on short notice. Do follow up.

NOTE that the course starts Friday 27-AUG-2004 (WEEK 35) and ends Friday 26-NOV-2004 (WEEK 48, last time).

NOTE that attendance to the first lecture is both obligatory and very advisable, since we?ll go through all that you need to do in the first lecture.

 

NOTE:

TBA stands for ?To Be Announced?, W1 and L1 stand for ?Week 1? and ?Lecture 1? respectively, and N/S stands for ?Notes and/or Slides?.

 

 

COURSE
WEEK
(calendar week)

TOPICS

LINKS TO HANDOUTS

and

SYLLABUS

LECTURER

W1

(35)

LECTURE

  • Introduction.
  • Computation.
  • Complexity.
  • Defining information.

 

NAK

W2

(36)

LECTURE

  • Data, Information, knowledge & wisdom.
  • Information, communication and language.
  • From computing to Information processing.

 

NAK

W3

(37)

LECTURE

  • Ontology.
  • Weber?s ontology for information systems (IS).
  • Ontology and Epistemology in philosophy and in IS.
  • Information representation, storage, processing and retrieval.

 

NAK

W4

(38)

LECTURE

  • The reasoning mind, its models and the universal language.
  • Classical categorization, typicality and fuzzy semantics.

 

NAK

W5

(39)

SEMINAR (student presentations & discussions)

THEME: THE ?REAL?

  • The physics of information.
  • Logic.

THEME: TWO MAJOR DIRECTIONS IN PHILOSOPHY

  • Ontology.

DON?T FORGET TO DELIVER ESSAY #1

Friday 24th Sep. 2004, before 16:00

  • Ch. 13
  • Ch. 20

 

EG

W6 BREAK

(40)

PLEASE DO WORK ON YOUR ESSAYS AND YOUR FINAL TERM PROJECT. NO COURSES/LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS.

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W7

(41)

SEMINAR (student presentations & discussions)

THEME: TWO MAJOR DIRECTIONS IN PHILOSOPHY (CONT?D)

?         Epistemology.

THEME: THE ?VIRTUAL?

?         Cybernetics.

?         Virtual reality.

 

 

?         URL, Principia Cybernetica Web

 

?         Ch. 14

?         Ch. 12

EG

W8

BREAK

(42)

PLEASE DO WORK ON YOUR ESSAYS AND YOUR FINAL TERM PROJECT. NO COURSES/LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS.

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W9

(43)

SEMINAR (student presentations & discussions)

THEME: THE ?ARTIFICIAL?

?         Artificial life.

?         On foundations of computing.

THEME: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)

?         What is AI?

DON?T FORGET TO DELIVER ESSAY #2

Friday 22nd Oct. 2004, before 16:00

?         Ch. 15

?         URL, B. C. Smith (U. of Oxford)

 

?         URL, on J. McCarthy?s Web-site

 EG

W10

(44)

SEMINAR (student presentations & discussions

THEME: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (CONT?D)

?         Philosophy of AI and its critique

THEME: AI AND THE MIND

?         Probability in AI.

?         Computationalism, connectionism and philosophy of mind.

 

 

?         Ch. 9

 

?         Ch. 21

?         Ch. 10

EG

W11

(45)

SEMINAR (student presentations & discussion),

THEME: MIND AND KNOWLEDGE

?         The identity theory of mind.

?         Information, content and knowledge

 

 

?         URL, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

?         Ch. 16 + Ch. 17

EG

W12

(46)

SEMINAR (student presentations & discussion),

THEME: INFORMATION IN PHILOSOPHY

  • The informational turn in philosophy.

THEME: DEFINING INFORMATION

  • 20th WCP #1: What is information?
  • 20th WCP #2: The relation-functional concept of the information



 

EG

W13

(47)

SEMINAR (student presentations & discussion),

THEME: COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE

  • An Introduction to System Science
  • Philosophy of Information Technology
  • Bootstrapping knowledge representations

DON?T FORGET TO DELIVER ESSAY #3

Friday 19th Nov. 2004, before 16:00

 

EG

W14

(48)

SEMINAR (student presentations & discussion),

THEME: PHILOSOPHY OF INFORMATION

  • Is a unified theory of information feasible?

 

LECTURE

  • Exam (term project) info, question, (hopefully) answers etc.

 

 

 

EG

EXAM PERIOD

EXAM PERIOD STARTS WEEK 49!

EXAM PERIOD: 1st DECEMBER 2004 ? 15th DECEMBER 2004.

 

REMEMBER TO DELIVER YOUR TERM PROJECT ON TIME!

DEADLINE: WEDNESDAY 15th Dec. 2004, BEFORE 16:00.

GOOD LUCK!