Human and Computer can talk?

Computers use 0 and 1 -the binary system which is based on truth table- to execute whatever the user types out. To make it more clear there are some process like complier to interpreter to computer language computers can understand. Actually I am not the expert in this part, but it really has. the KEYBOARD is a medium to make people and computer can communicate each other. i mean keyboard is one of the result of HCI, the study how human interact with computer. It is often regarded as the intersection of computer science, design and several other fields of study. Interaction between users and computers occurs at the interface, which includes both software and hardware.Because human-computer interaction studies a human and a machine in conjunction, it draws from supporting knowledge on both the machine and the human side. On the machine side, techniques in computer graphics, operating systems, programming languages are relevant. On the human side, communication theory, linguistics,and human performance are relevant. And, of course, engineering and design methods are relevant.

Long years ago, looking at the history of HCI as tools people like
–Vannevar Bush: memex
–Doug Engelbart: mouse, GUI, word processing, etc.
–Ted Nelson: hypertext
–Alan Kay: object-oriented programming, laptops

are focused on implements: tools.

Here I have a silly question that which one came first, the egg or the chicken? you would not want to answer that. Then what do you think of this sentence that people often interact with media technologies as though the technologies were people. That is true, though. Some movies inspire people to have better ergonomical technologes, so with develped technology, people can make practical science fiction films.

The last thing, do you know what Ethnomethodology means? According to the ppt simply it means the study of the ways in which people make sense of their social world. Nowdays Ethnomethodology is a fairly recent sociological perspective, founded by the American sociologist Harold Garfinkel in the early 1960s. And Ethnomethodologists assume that social order is illusory. This clss was pretty hard to have a fully understanding, because of lots of confusing concepts and scientific terms. But good thing is, pro.Yoon revises what we've learned in korean before the class is dismissed. Thank you.^^

What is think?

Have you thought about what think is? Does that mean judge, consider or estimate? Then, if computers consider things, solve problems, or make decisions in a particular way, can we say computers THINK? This concept is artificial intelligence so called AI. Alan Turing is the founder of computer science -artificial intelligence-, though he was a gay man. I think my professer Yoon was generous with homosexuality. I also know some people who are gays, i agree they are kind, but i have some bad idea about homosexuality. That is my opinion. Anyway, he was one of the great genius, but he suicided when he was 42 because of his homosexuality.
He created “imitation game" which computer roles of the woman, and a client guess who is a real woman. If the computer could trick the client, does that mean computer can think? That was his basic idea of AI. Also he made the first computer, universal machine, to use Breaking of U-boat Enigma in 1936. Finaly they did won the second world war.

Here, what Marvin Minsky defined artificial intelligence in 1963 is the science of making machines do things that would require intelligence as if done by humans. One example of AI is Hanoi Tower Problem-planning as a technical problem. but people think computer never can be smarter than human being, because computers can make plan as programed, if it get a unexpected situation, not programed, it will show us error message. Computer can not solve problems in real world.
Next class is no class for preparing my first mid-term exam. mid-term exam in honored system.
Here some expected questions which i have to study.

1.When do digital media technologies become media?
2.What do technologies embody today?
3.What are the laptop computer’s politics? Write down at least three.
4.Computers can take many different material forms. What are those examples? (the innovators and their theory title and machine name)
5.What is memex?
6.What are new media and old media? Write down as coupled forms.
7.What is the relationship between new media and old media?
8.What are two common computer technologies of the 1960s?
9.What are Douglas Engelbart’s inventions?
10.What is WWW? (3 definitions in the class)
11.What is Stanley Milgram’s proposition in social network?
12.Explain two major social capitals.
13.Which social capital can the global school of media be? Then, why?
14.What was Google’s page rank algorithms for popular web pages?
15.What is ‘Turing Test (imitation game)’?
16.What is ‘artificial intelligence’ by Marvin Minsky?
17.What are research areas in artificial intelligence?
18.What is ‘GPS(General Problem Solver)’?
19.What is ‘Frame Problem’?
20.What is ‘micro-talespin’?
21.What is ‘FRUMP’?
22.What is ‘ELIZA’?
23.What is ‘Huge Harry’?
24.Is David (Haley Joel Osment in the film A.I.) a human? Why? or Why not?

Thank you.^^

Do you have a internet friend?

A couple of years ago, cyworld was boomed very much. Everybody has their own blog and visited their friend's blogs. I was one of them who found it interesting. what do you think it makes people crazy about it? I think it was so fun for them to make relatives in the web. Also without spending lots of time, they could see their friends in the web. Cyworld ,New media technology, reinforced existing social networks, but also worked to isolate people. You may know what i mean.
Here, when you do cyworld, you probably visited your friend's friend's blog, forthemore friend's friend's friend's blog as well. There was a funny experiment by Stanley Milgram in 1967 “The Small World Problem”. the thing is that he sent 60 letters to his friends in some area and asked to forward the letter to the wife of someone living at a specified location where is far from his friend's ,who was asked, area. His friends was also asked only pass the letters by hand. The funny thing is that most time, the letter was delivered in six steps. It is called “six-degrees of separation”. Is that funny?

Okay, Let's talk about Amazon, onlive shopping website. My professor Yoon bought several books there. i think those was related to his studying - I mean some specific field. After that Amazon recommanded he buy some books which is relatived in that field, too. That was amazing How amazon knows Dr.Yoon's interesting and could recommand some books.
Amazon gathered his information like his intersing and what he has bought. They used recommender systems; amazon.com’s feature: “People who bought this book also bought the others".
Another example of gathering information is a Google search engine. when you type out Bush to search some information about it, Google search engine just do not show us some websites hyperlinked to Bush. it connect us to webpages considered popular. What makes it possible is Google’s Page Rank algorithm gives more weight to popular webpages. Very smart.
Think about that if you are a manager of some company, you would want to know whole system of the company, not detail part of it. In the same way, there is a cybergeography like a map visualizing networks. It could be helpful for them who are interested in knowing whole pattern in networks. Thank you for the lecture. ^^