EWS425
Winter, 2003

In Lab Assignment, March 5, 2003


Topic Web Site
The Women of ENIAC http://www.gecdsb.on.ca/d&g/women/women.htm
A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence http://www.generation5.org/aihistory.shtml
History of Robotics and Robots http://www.geocities.com/Eureka/7331/hrorobot.htm
Deep Blue http://www.research.ibm.com/deepblue/home/may11/story_1.html
MIT's Kismet the Sociable Robot http://www-caes.mit.edu/mvp/html/kismet.html
Difficulties for women in AI http://www.mills.edu/ACAD_INFO/MCS/SPERTUS/ Gender/ieee/sectionstar3_1.html

Questions:
  1. What was ENIAC? What contributions did women make to this project? Who were the key women?
  2. What is AI?
  3. Who or what were: ELIZA, Shakey, Aaron, Deep Blue?
  4. Why is Kismet unique?
  5. What are some of the problems for women in the AI field?