AND GLADLY LEARN

". . .And gladly teche".

George Bernard Shaw remarked, "Those that can, do; those that can't, teach." More recently Sir Theodore Fox, long-time editor of the Lancet, added, "Those who can't teach like to talk about teaching, especially after dinner." Fortunately, the day is young. There are still a few hours of grace, and I shall speak of learning as well as teaching. Our venture, that of teaching psychiatry to medical...

Learn to Communicate and Communicate to Learn

Thinking of a computer as an educational tool emphasizes a solitary interaction between the learner and the computer. A tool is something that is applied to an object in order to change it, and this usually implies a single user working on a single object or project. While tools are an important aspect of an educational experience, the tool metaphor can isolate individual learners from each oth...

How to Learn/What to Learn

Abst rac t : This paper discusses the kind of in fo rmat ion that must be present in a computer program that models the l i n g u i s t i c development of a c h i l d . A three stage model is presented that character izes the development of a na tu ra l l a n guage parser in a c h i l d of ages one, one and a h a l f , and two. Some data from ch i ld ren of these ages is presented. General prob...

To Learn or Not do Learn

To Learn or Not to Learn ...

Multiagent systems in which agents interact with each other are now being proposed as a solution to many problems which can be grouped together under the \distributed problem solv-ing" umbrella. For such systems to work properly , it is necessary that agents learn from their environment and adapt their behaviour accordingly. In this paper we present a system which uses a combination of neuro{fu...