Contents

• Introduction - Computation and computers
• What's in a computer?
• Machine code
• The fetch-decode-obey cycle
• Stored programs
• Hardware versus software
• Functionalism
• Two games
  • The 15 game
  • A word game
  • Equivalence between games
• Weak and strong AI
• Functional architecture
• The development of programming languages
• AI languages
• List processing and Lisp
• Logic programming
• The trend to declarative languages
• Interpretation versus compilation
• Virtual machines and levels of description
• About this document ...

AI lecture 6

Jocelyn Ireson-Paine