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6.803 - We talked about Minsky’s K-lines paper… and in passing, Winston mentioned a conversation he had had with 3 20-something young women all of whom had graduated from Ivy league schools. The question he had posed to them was “What are you looking for in a man?” and their answers, were… 1) Money 2) Power and 3) Personal Hygiene. The context of this presentation was the concept of a spider-diagram (several axes, e.g. one for Money, Power and Personal Hyigene, then dots on those axes — then fill in the polygon area and use the area to compare various candidates).

6.033 - Arrived a bit late, but fortunately the material covered was stuff I have already seen… how locks operate and the concept of atomicity.

6.UAT - A guest talk by AI researcher Randall Davis, regarding smart paper that understands the drawings made upon it; he also covered the concept of multi-modal communication: for example, if something is difficult to draw, then a human could simply say what he or she wants to see, the computer would draw it — the concept is that we can draw stuff that’s difficult to describe, vocalize stuff that’s difficult to draw, and gesture to communicate stuff that’s not easy to draw nor vocalize.

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