I've heard that but since I'm computer illiterate I don't know how it all works. But since I'm on Prodigy tonight I'm learning a lot through my typist Peter.
Learning by doing peer-to-peer teaching and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.
When David Marr at MIT moved into computer vision he generated a lot of excitement but he hit up against the problem of knowledge representation he had no good representations for knowledge in his vision systems.
While many hackers have the knowledge skills and tools to attack computer systems they generally lack the motivation to cause violence or severe economic or social harm.
When AI approximates Machine Intelligence then many online and computer-run RPGs will move towards actual RPG activity. Nonetheless that will not replace the experience of 'being there ' any more than seeing a theatrical motion picture can replace the stage play.
All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane the automobile the computer - says little about his intelligence but speaks volumes about his laziness.
It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants crowded together around the Hill blackening the ground that you begin to see the whole beast and now you observe it thinking planning calculating. It is an intelligence a kind of live computer with crawling bits for its wits.
A young imagination is bold likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to well imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur that the computer mouse is a hotrod that the box is a cave that the rawhide is a torch... or a baton... or something.
My computer beat me at checkers but I sure beat it at kickboxing.
They pick all of us out and then they decide they computerize decide if they like it or don't like it and then they go home and then they come back again because they're not sure what they saw.
When I started editing on my home computer I said to myself 'Well I could be at home studying for a class or I could be at home editing a video.'
The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We're just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people - as remarkable as the telephone.
I have a computer screen near my seat where I monitor the overall health of the vehicle and pick up any problems that might be occurring early on or once we see any kind of a malfunction or anything unusual that's happening we can look at the data and figure out what that is.
If you're too embarrassed and want to hide behind your computer screen that's what this is for. It's about building confidence and that's what U by Kotex does. Girls owning their bodies and health.
In my second year in graduate school I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
I met Woz when I was 13 at a friend's garage. He was about 18. He was like the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends because we shared an interest in computer and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.
The computer is your passport not only to the future but to knowing what's going around you.