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Exercise
A. Fill in the blanks.
1. ………………………. was an American Computer Scientist and Cognitive Scientist.
2. ………………………. was the joint winner of 1994 ACM Turing Award.
3. ………………………. developed the first semantic web.
4. Perceptrons was written by ………………………. .
5. Alan Turing published a ground breaking seminal paper “Computing Machinery and Intelligence”
on the topic of ………………………. .
B. State whether the following statements are true or false.
1. John McCarthy created the Turing test. ……….……
2. Alan Turing was a brilliant British Mathematician, Biologist and Computer Scientist. ……….……
3. IBM company hit a milestone with the development of Deep Blue. ……….……
4. Marvin Minsky wrote the book ‘Perceptrons’. ……….……
5. Ross Quillian’s work “SYNTHEX” is not widely accredited in the field of AI. ……….……
C. Answer the given questions.
1. Explain the Turing test.
2. Who developed the first semantic web?
3. Who developed the LISP programming language?
4. Write a short note about Edward Feigenbaum.
5. What was the objective of Deep Blue?
Deep Thinking Critical Thinking
Try to imagine a world when AI was not visualised. As a computer scientist what do you think would
be the factor that would lead to the invention of such an advanced idea?
Lab Creativity
1. Now that you have learn about various pioneers who have contributed to the field of AI,
prepare a PowerPoint presentation about the same and discuss it with your teacher.
2. Search the web and find out about the application of Turing test and write your findings
in MS Word document and share with the class.
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