For Nov 20:

 -read -- and be ready to discuss (and take a brief quiz on) --
chapters 4-6 of Winfield's Robotics book

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For Nov 15:

 -read -- and be ready to discuss --
chapters 1-3 of Winfield's Robotics book

 -NOTE: your 4th reports are due by midnight SUNDAY Nov 18

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For Nov 13:

 -read -- and be ready to discuss (and take a brief quiz on) --
chapters 6-8 of the Searle book

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For Nov 8:

 -read -- and be ready to discuss --
chapters 4-5 of the Searle book

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For Nov 6:

 -read -- and be ready to discuss --
chapters 1-3 of the Searle book

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For Oct 23:

 -read -- and be ready to discuss (and take a brief quiz on) --
http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/fall2012/cmsc828d/spinelli.pdf

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For Oct 2:

(AMENDED! Now to page 194!)
 -read -- and be ready to discuss (and take a brief quiz on) --
  the first "half" (up to the middle of page 194) of
http://crl.ucsd.edu/~elman/Papers/fsit.pdf

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For Sept 25:

 -read -- and be ready to discuss (and take a brief quiz on) --
http://mind.ucsd.edu/syllabi/00-01/phil235/a_readings/perry_indexical.html

 -look at the NEW report-list and choose a topic for your NEXT report,
due as a pdf email attachment by midnight Sunday Sept 30.

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For Sept 18:

 -read -- and be ready to discuss (and take a brief quiz on) --
http://aclweb.org/anthology-new/P/P12/P12-1067.pdf

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For Sept 11:

 -read -- and be ready to discuss --
http://web.archive.org/web/20071210043312/http://members.aol.com/NeoNoetics/MindsBrainsPrograms.html

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For Sept 6:

 -read -- and be ready to discuss --
http://orium.homelinux.org/paper/turingai.pdf

 -look at the report-list (online) and start to choose a report topic
as soon as you can (send email, first-choosers get their first
choices); this report will be due (in pdf format, by email) no later
than Sunday, Sept 16.

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For Sept 4: 

 -read "Programs with common sense."
  http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/mcc59.html

 -read "Sources of, and exploiting, inconsistency: preliminary report."
  http://www.cs.umd.edu/~perlis/pubs/sources.pdf

 -join the PIAZZA group for this class at
  https://piazza.com/class#fall2012/cmsc828
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