DIGI102-18S1 (C) Semester One 2018

Computers, Artificial Intelligence, and the Information Society

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 19 February 2018
End Date: Sunday, 24 June 2018
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 2 March 2018
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 18 May 2018

Description

Our art, culture, politics, society, and economy are powered by computing machines. This course will provide an outline history of computing from the 1930s to the present day, and offers students an introduction to the foundations of computing and information processing, as well as to the corporations who sell us our devices and software, and to moral, philosophical and ethical issues fundamental to information, information-processing, and the information society. The course also examines Artificial Intelligence: what is AI and can it be achieved? How could you tell whether a computer has a mind? Is the human brain in fact a computer? In addition, some specifically Maori computing initiatives will be described and placed in their philosophical context.

Learning Outcomes

University Graduate Attributes

This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:

Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award

Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.

Restrictions

Equivalent Courses

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Jack Copeland

Lecturer

Michael Grimshaw

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Learning Journal 15% 1 brief entry per week. Due each week by midnight Friday.
Blog 16 Mar 2018 15% 500 words
Essay 11 May 2018 40% 1200 words
Class test 30 May 2018 30% 5pm - 6.15pm (75 mins)

Textbooks / Resources

(*Image: "Honda Asimo" by Zoohouse, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.)

Course links

Library portal
Philosophy Essay Writing Guide (available to all enrolled Philosophy students)

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $746.00

International fee $3,038.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

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