Showing posts with label robots. Show all posts
Showing posts with label robots. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Brains vs Computers

Computer vs Brain

Who wins??!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlUK69Wsk6g

Future of Robots

Do you think that Computers will ever 'Catch Up' to the human brain? Do you think they are better than us in some ways already? What do you think the dangers are if computers continue to develop? (Think about movies like I, Robot or Terminator or AI).

Post responses on your blogs. This could be in the form of a paragraph, or a short story that shows what it would be like if computers were advanced enough to interact with humans.

Thursday, September 6, 2012

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Computer vs Brain

Who wins??!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlUK69Wsk6g

Future of Robots

Do you think that Computers will ever 'Catch Up' to the human brain? Do you think they are better than us in some ways already? What do you think the dangers are if computers continue to develop? (Think about movies like I, Robot or Terminator or AI).

Post responses on your blogs. This could be in the form of a paragraph, or a short story that shows what it would be like if computers were advanced enough to interact with humans.

Friday, January 13, 2012

ITGS Exam

Topics to review for the ITGS exam (January 27th):

1. Online fraud
- "phishing"
- how do banks protect their customers?
2. Mulitmedia
- in the news and/or classroom
3.  Weather
- model vs simulation
- preventing/predicting natural disasters
4. Robots in the Health industry
- battlefield
- hospital

Check out the comments on this post for some useful research articles. You should also spend a lot of time checking out the ITGS Collaborative Vocabulary to have ideas of some of the terms you can use. Finally, check out the List of ITGS Abbreviations so you know what some of the terms on the test mean.

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

4 Topics to Study

Find some articles on the following topics and analyze them with the ITGS triangle. Try to use as many words from the Vocabulary List as you can!

 

Bank Fraud/Security/Authentication/Online Finance/ATMs

Multimedia in the news and in the classroom

Weather sensors, simulations

Robots in the military and medicine

Monday, November 28, 2011

Time to think about Time


 

Okay, this is not exactly ITGS-related, but I thought you'd be interested in this article. Have a read:

 

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2011/09/01/ten-things-everyone-should-know-about-time/

 

Also, take a look at this link for an interesting article on Robot Prison Guards!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15893772