MAS.962
Common Sense Reasoning for Interactive Applications
Spring 2010 · Special Topics: New Textiles
This project-based course will explore the future of textiles, focusing particularly on blending rich crafting traditions with new technologies. Topics will include textile-based electronics, textile fabrication, algorithmic pattern design, and composites. We will experiment with a wide range of fibers, yarns, and fabrics including traditional materials like wool and cotton as well as metal fibers and yarns, fusible plastics, papers, and resins. We will also explore techniques like felting, laser cutting, CNC knitting, digital printing, and CNC embroidery. Students will complete weekly hands-on assignments and a final project. WARNING NOTICE: An activity described in this course is potentially hazardous and requires a high level of safety training, special facilities and equipment, and supervision by appropriate individuals. You bear the sole responsibility, liability, and risk for the implementation of such safety procedures and measures. MIT shall have no responsibility, liability, or risk for the content or implementation of any of the material presented. [Legal Notice](/terms/)
Readings
- Kadolph, S. J., and A. L. Langford. Textiles . 10th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2007. ISBN: 9780131187696.
Fall 2006
Topics
- Introduction to Common Sense for Interactive Applications
- Common Sense in Languages and Cultures
- Applications Survey: Recommendation, Games
- Educational Applications
- Applications Survey: Inferring User Goals (Goose, Roadie, Creo/Miro/Adeo, etc.)
- No Meeting
- Tutorial on Commonsense Tools: OMCS, ConceptNet, EventNet, etc.
- Related Work (Cyc, ThoughtTreasure, Semantic Web, Conventional KR, etc.)
- Common Sense Inference
- Project Workshop & Critique
- Improving Knowledge Collection and Knowledge Quality
- Applications Survey: Affect, Personality, Viewpoints (Empathy Buddy, WWTT, Aesthetiscope, etc.)
- Project Workshop & Critique (cont.)
- Final Project Presentations
Readings
- Minsky, Marvin. “Commonsense-based Interfaces.” Communications of the ACM 43, no. 8 (2000): 66-73.
- Chung, Hyemin. “GlobalMind - Bridging the Gap Between Different Cultures and Languages with Common-sense Computing.” MIT MS Thesis. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, August 2006.
- Musa, Rami, Madleina Scheidegger, Andrea Kulas, and Yoan Anguilet. “GloBuddy, a Dynamic Broad Context Phrase Book.” In Modeling and Using Context (Proceedings of the 4th International and Interdisciplinary Conference, CONTEXT 2003, Stanford, CA, USA, June 23-25, 2003). Edited by Patrick Blackburn, Chiara Ghidini, Roy M. Turner, and Fausto Giunchiglia. New York, NY: Springer, 2003, pp. 467-474. ISBN: 9783540403807.
- Chung, J., R. Kern, and H. Lieberman. “Topic Spotting Common Sense Translation Assistant.” In CHI ‘05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems . New York, NY: ACM Press, 2005, pp. 1280-1283. ISBN: 9781581139983.
- Lieberman, Henry, Alexander Faaborg, José Espinosa, and Tom Stocky. “Common Sense on the Go: Giving Mobile Applications an Understanding of Everyday Life.” British Telecom Technology Journal 22, no. 4 (2004): 241-252.
- Lieberman, Henry, and Sybil Shearin. “Intelligent Profiling by Example.” In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces . New York, NY: ACM Press, 2001, pp. 145-151. ISBN: 1581133251.
- Anacleto, J. C., A. F. P. De Carvalho, V. P. A. Neris, M. S. Godoi, S. Zem-Mascarenhas, and A. Talarico Neto. “How Can Common Sense Support Instructors with Distance Education?” In XVII Simpósio Brasileiro de Informática na Educação . Brasília, Brazil: SBIE, 2006, pp. 217-226. ISBN: 8576690942.
- Marcus, A. “Culture Class vs. Culture Clash.” Interactions 9, no. 3 (2002): 25-28.
- Matocha, J., T. Camp, and R. Hooper. “Extended Analogy: An Alternative Lecture Method.” SIGCSE Bulletin 30, no. 1 (1998): 262-266.
- Faaborg, A., and H. Lieberman. “A Goal-oriented Web Browser.” In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems . Edited by R. Grinter, T. Rodden, P. Aoki, E. Cutrell, R. Jeffries, and G. Olson. New York, NY: ACM Press, 2006, pp. 751-760. ISBN: 1595933727.
- Liu, Hugo, Henry Lieberman, and Ted Selker. “Goose: A Goal-oriented Search Engine with Commonsense.” In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems . New York, NY: Springer-Verlag, 2003, pp. 253-263. ISBN: 9783540437376.
- Lieberman, H., and H. Liu. “Adaptive Linking between Text and Photos Using Common Sense Reasoning.” In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems . Edited by P. D. Bra, P. Brusilovsky, and R. Conejo. Lecture Notes In Computer Science 2347 (2002): 2-11.
- Stocky, T., A. Faaborg, and H. Lieberman. “A Commonsense Approach to Predictive Text Entry.” In CHI ‘04 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems . New York, NY: ACM Press, 2004, pp. 1163-1166. ISBN: 1581137036.
- Mueller, E. T. “A Calendar with Common Sense.” In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces . New York, NY: ACM Press, 2000, pp.198-201. ISBN: 9781581131345.
- Liu, H., and P. Singh. “ConceptNet - A Practical Commonsense Reasoning Tool-Kit.” BT Technology Journal 22, no. 4 (2004): 211-226.
- Singh, P., and W. Williams. “LifeNet: A Propositional Model of Ordinary Human Activity.” In Proceedings of the Workshop on Distributed and Collaborative Knowledge Capture at K-CAP 2003 . New York, NY: ACM Press, 2003. ISBN: 1581135831.
- Espinosa, Jose, and Henry Lieberman. “EventNet: Inferring Temporal Relations between Commonsense Events.” In Proceedings of the 4th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence . Edited by Alexander Gelbukh, Álvaro de Albornoz, and Hugo Terashima-Marín. New York, NY: Springer-Verlag, 2005. ISBN: 9783540298960.
- Eslick, I., and H. Liu. “Langutils: A Natural Language Toolkit for Common Lisp.” In Proceedings of the International Lisp Conference (ILC'2005), 2005.
- Lenat, D. B. “CYC: A Large-scale Investment in Knowledge Infrastructure.” Communications of the ACM 38, no. 11 (1995): 33-38.
- Mueller, E.T. “ThoughtTreasure: A Natural Language/Commonsense Platform.” 1998.
- Davis, R., H. Shrobe, and P. Szolovits. “What Is a Knowledge Representation?” AI Magazine 14, no. 1 (1993): 17-33.
- Mueller, Erik. Commonsense Reasoning . San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2006. ISBN: 9780123693884.
- Cohen, William. “WHIRL: A Word-based Information Representation Language.” Artificial Intelligence 118, no. 1-2 (2000): 163-196.
- Choose something from this conference: 2005 Symposium on Formalization of Commonsense Reasoning, Corfu, Greece, May 2005.
- Vanderwende, Lucy. “Volunteers Created the Web.” In Knowledge Collection from Volunteer Contributors: Papers from the 2005 Spring Symposium . Edited by Timothy Chklovski, Pedro Domingos, Henry Lieberman, Rada Mihalcea, and Push Singh. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press, 2005, pp. 84-90. ISBN: 9781577352297.
- Liu, H., H. Lieberman, and T. Selker. “A Model of Textual Affect Sensing Using Real-world Knowledge.” In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces . New York, NY: ACM Press, 2003, pp. 125-132. ISBN: 9781581135862.
- Mueller, Erik T., and Dyer, Michael G. “Towards a Computational Theory of Human Daydreaming.” In Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society . Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1986, pp. 120-129. ISBN: 9780898599428.
- Binsted, K., and G. Ritchie. “An Implemented Model of Punning Riddles.” In Proceedings of the Twelfth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence . Vol. 1. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press, 1994, pp. 633-638. ISBN: 9780262611022.
- Liu, Hugo, and Pattie Maes. “The Aesthetiscope: Visualizing Aesthetic Readings of Text in Color Space.” In Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference . Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press, 2005, pp. 74-79. ISBN: 9781577352341.
Spring 2003 · The Nature of Constructionist Learning
Topics
- Registration
- Constructionism - Deep Dive
- S. Papert - Foundational Work
- S. Papert - Foundational Work (cont.)
- J. Piaget
- L. S. Vygotsky, A. N. Leont’ev, and A. R. Luria
- J. Dewey
- Lave and Wegner, Rogoff, Collins, Brown and Duguid
- I. Illich, P. Freire, E. Fromm and A. Falbel
- Research Tools and Methodology
- Documentation, Reflection, and Evaluation
- Diversity in Learning
- Communities of Learners
- Final Project and Paper Presentations (I)
- Final Project and Paper Presentations (II)
Readings
- WEEK #: 1 · TOPICS: Registration · READINGS: The course description, reading list, and requirements.
- Duckworth, E. “The Having of Wonderful Ideas.” Harvard Educational Review 42, no. 2 (May 1972): 217-231.
- WEEK #: 3 · TOPICS: S. Papert - Foundational Work · READINGS: Papert, S. Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas . New York: Basic Books. 1980.
- Papert, S. Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas . New York: Basic Books. 1980.
- Papert, S. “The Conservation of Piaget: The Computer as Grist to the Constructivist Mill”. In Constructivism in the Computer Age . NY: Lawrence Erlbaum. 1988.
- Duckworth, E. The Having of Wonderful Ideas and Other Essays on Teaching and Learning . New York: Teachers College Press. 1996.
- Gruber, H. E., and J. J. Voneche. “Introduction.” In The Essential Piaget . New York: Basic Books, 1977. pp. xvi-xliv.
- Cole, M., and J. V. Wertsch. “Beyond the individual-social antinomy in discussions of Piaget and Vygotsky.” Human-Development . 39, no. 5 (Sep-Oct 1996): 250-256.
- Lave, J., and E. Wenger. Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation. NY: Cambridge University Press. 1991.
- Brown, J. S., A. Collins, and P. Duguid. “Situated Cognition and the Culture of Learning.” Educational Researcher 18, no. 1 (1989): 32-42.
- Rogoff, Barbara. “Developing Understanding of the Idea of Communities of Learners.” Mind, Culture, and Activity 1, no. 4 (1994): 209-229.
- Falbel, A. “Preface,” “Introduction,” “Conclusion,” and “Looking Back at Friskolen 70.” In Friskolen 70: An Ethnographically Informed Inquiry Into the Social Context of Learning . Cambridge, MA: MIT Media Laboratory Doctoral Dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1989.
- Ackermann, E. “From Decontextualized to Situated Knowledge: Revisiting Piaget’s Water-Level Experiment.” E&L Memo 5 (1990).
- Papert, S. “Beyond the Cognitive: The Other Face of Mathematics.” Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Plenary Lectures. 1986.
- Wilensky, U. “Abstract Meditations on the Concrete and Concrete Implications for Mathematics Education.” In Constructionism . Edited by I. Harel and S. Papert. Norwood, MA: Ablex Publishing. 1990.
- Shaw, A. Chapters 1 and 2 in Social Constructionism and the Inner City: Designing Environments for Social Development and Urban Renewal . Cambridge, MA: MIT Media Laboratory Doctoral Dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1995.
Fall 2002 · Special Topics in Media Technology: Computational Semantics
Topics
- Overview I
- Overview II
- Relational Networks I
- Relational Networks II
- Term Project / Paper Proposals Due.
- External Grounding I
- External Grounding II
- Integration I
- Theory-Theory I
- Theory-Theory II
- Integration II
- A Step Back
- Project / Paper Presentations
Readings
- Reading #: 2
- Quillian, M. “Semantic Memory.” Semantic Information Processing . Edited by M. Minsky. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1968, pp. 216-270.
- Harnad, S. “The Symbol Grounding Problem.” Physica D 42 (1990): 335-346.
- Reading #: 3
- Miller, G. “Nouns in WordNet.” _WordNet: An Electronic Lexical Database._Edited by C. Fellbaum. MIT Press, 1998.
- Minsky, M. “A framework for representing knowledge.” Mind Design . Edited by J. Haugeland. MIT Press, 1975/1981.
- Reading #: 4
- Pustejovsky, J. “Type construction and the logic of concepts.” The language of word meaning. Edited by P. Bouillon, and F. Busa. Cambridge University Press, 2001.
- Reading #: 6
- Cantwell, Smith Brian. On the Origin of Objects . MIT Press. Excerpts.
- Brooks, R. A. “Intelligence Without Representation.” Artificial Intelligence Journal 47 (1991): 139–159.
- Reading #: 7
- Gardenfors, P. Conceptual Spaces . MIT Press, 2000. Excerpts.
- Roy, D. “Learning Visually Grounded Words and Syntax of Natural Spoken Language.” Evolution of Communication. 4(1) (2001/2002) .
- Reading #: 8
- Goldstone, R. L., and Rogosky, B. J. “Using relations within conceptual systems to translate across conceptual systems.” Cognition 83(3) (2002) : 295-320.
- Reading #: 9
- Hayes, P. “The Second Naive Physics Manifesto_._” Formal Theories of the Common Sense World (Vol. 1). Edited by J. R. Hobbs, and R. C. Moore. Norwood, N. J.: Ablex Publishing Company, 1985.
- Gopnik, A. “The Scientist as Child.” Philosophy of Science 63(4) (1996): 485-514.
- Reading #: 10
- Allen, J. “Natural language understanding.” Benjamin Cummings (1994). Excerpts.
- Reading #: 11
- Jackendoff, R. (2002). “Semantics as a Mentalistic Enterprise,” (Chap. 8) “Reference and Truth,” (Chap. 9), and “Lexical Semantics.” (Chap. 11) in Foundations of Language.
- Reading #: 12
- Putnam, H. “The meaning of ‘meaning.’” Mind, language, and reality: Philosophical papers, vol. 2 . Edited by H. Putnam. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975.
Fall 1997 · Digital Typography
Topics
- Introduction
- Lecture: History of Typography 1
- Assignment 1 Review
- Lecture: History of Typography 2
- Assignment 2 Review
- Lecture: Typography and Me
- Assignment 3 Review
- Lecture: Difficult Typography
- Assignment 4 Review
- Designer Talk: Ori Kometani: MIT Press Design
- Assignment 5 Review
- Lecture: Representing Form
- Assignment 6 Review
- Designer Talk: Matthew Carter: Typographic Traditions
- Assignment 7 Review
- Lecture: Kinetic Typography
- Design Activity 1
- Lecture: Dynamic Typography (D. Small, Visiting Lecturer)
- Assignment 8 Review
- Designer Talk: Suguru Ishizaki: Webcastable Typography
- Assignment 9 Review
- Review of Assignment 1 to Assignment 9
- Creating a Tool
- Assignment 10 Review
- Exhibition Meeting
- MAS.962 Exhibition
Readings
- Bringhurst, Robert. The Elements of Typographic Style. Vancouver, BC: Hartley and Marks Publishers, 2002. ISBN: 9780881791327.
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