During the second world war computers had been built to crack codes (Colossus, in Britain) and calculate artillery firing tables (ENIAC, in America).
We don't, for example, even know whether the basic unit of computational currency in the brain is digital (e.g., a set of zeroes and ones, like in virtually all modern computers) or analog (like the continuously moving second hand in an old-fashioned clock, an approach that was commonly used in some pre-Second World War computers).
Resources / Materials: -pens/pencils -paper -student journals -copies of "Democrats Play the Loyal Opposition" (one per student) -resources about World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the Gulf War (computers with Internet access, periodicals, library resources, etc).
The space-war computer game is widely regarded as the ultimate challenge for AI programs due to its complexity and rapid pace.
Despite the success of Lego's Star Wars computer game, he is not interested in licensed toys, saying they get in the way of imaginative play.
There are notable exceptions, of course, like the long line of successful Star Wars computer games that culminated in last year's stunning Star Wars Episode I Racers, distributed by Lucas Arts.
When he and his best friend recently played a Star Wars computer game that required players to take on the role of Princess Leia, they laughed uncomfortably, as if partaking in something they'd best keep secret.
Turing's paper of 1936 ('On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem') was required reading for members of von Neumann's post-war computer project at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University (letter from Julian Bigelow to Copeland, 2002; see also Copeland [2004], p. 23).
Ms. Pao herself went on to add: "I grew up in Maplewood, New Jersey, raised by enginerds on 'Star Wars,' computers and books.
I grew up in Maplewood, New Jersey, raised by enginerds on Star Wars, computers and books.
