HL/SL Artificial intelligence Task 31/10/2008

Make short notes from the link below and the answer the online quiz in the computerconfluence site

https://ict-patana.wikispaces.com/AI+and+Expert+Systems#toc0



http://wps.prenhall.com/bp_beekman_tomtech_8/58/14910/3817124.cw/index.html

AI activities

Try out the following activities. Eliza and ALICe

http://www-ai.ijs.si/eliza/eliza.html



http://www.pandorabots.com/pandora/talk?botid=f5d922d97e345aa1



Turing Test Page

http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/~asaygin/tt/ttest.html

http://www.weblab.org/press/031899nytimes.htm

http://www.macrovu.com/CCTGeneralInfo.html

http://www.psych.utoronto.ca/users/reingold/courses/ai/turing.html

http://www.stanford.edu/group/SHR/4-2/text/dialogues.html

http://library.thinkquest.org/05aug/01158/turingTest.html

N&Q Case study task 24/10/2008

Task 1 (30 minutes)
1) Having looked at the types of networks, research for the at least five security threats that any investment company was involved in through their computer networks.
a) What was the name of the investment company
b) Describe the security threat encountered
c) what was the solution by the company to address the threats.

Each student will be given a chance to share their findings.

Task 2 (Wireless Technologies)
a) What is wireless computer communication?
b) Describe the different wireless technologies
c) What are the advantages and disadvantages of using each wireless technology?
d) Describe briefly how Investment Companies such as N&Q can utilize the wireless technologies.

Task 3 (PDA and Mobile Computing)
a) What is a PDA?
b) Name the different types of PDA stating their features, and operating system they used
c)Name some functions of PDA.
d) How does a PDA work?
e) How can PDA's be used in N&Q investment company?

SL and HL Tasks for 3/10/2008

Go through all the researched work on robotics in the following wiki spaces.
http://itgs.wikispaces.com/Robotics

N&Q Case study task 3/10/2008 (HL students Only)

In order to tackle N&Q investment, we will need to understand the IT systems that can support such investments. (each individual student will be assigned to present any area at random)

Our class research will be on types of networks;
LAN
a) What is LAN?
b) State some facts about LAN?
c) What are the limitations of LAN?

WAN
a) What is WAN?
b) State some facts about WAN?
c) What are the limitations of WAN?
d) Compare WAN and LAN


Other Types of Networks
Describe briefly the other types of networks

1. PAN
2. SAN
3. CAN
4. MAN
5. WWAN

Identify at least five security threats to computer networks?