Chapter 1 Introduction

1 CHAPTER 1 : Introduction

CHAPTER 1 Introduction 1 . 1 PERCEPTUAL COMPUTING

CWW is a methodology in which the objects of computation are words and propositions drawn from a natural language. [It is] inspired by the remarkable human capability to perform a wide variety of physical and mental tasks without any measurements and any computations. CWW may have an important bearing on how humans . . . make perception-based rational decisions in an environment of imprecision,...

Chapter – 1 Introduction and Preliminaries

Chapter 1 Algorithm Animation Introduction

An algorithm animation (AA) visualizes the behavior of an algorithm by producing an abstraction of both the data and the operations of the algorithm. Initially it maps the current state of the algorithm into an image, which then is animated based on the operations between two succeeding states in the algorithm execution. Animating an algorithm allows for better understanding of the inner workin...

Chapter 1 Metareasoning: An introduction

Philosophers and cognitive scientists of many persuasions have long wondered what is unique to human intelligence. Although a number of ideas have been proposed, a common differentiator appears to be a pervasive capacity for thinking about ourselves in terms of who we are, how others see us, and in terms of where we have been and where we want to go. As humans, we continually think about oursel...