Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Understanding Instruction Books and Programs [PDF]

"Understanding Instruction Books and Programs"
is a PDF of the paper presented at Worldcomp06 (ICAI'06]- Las Vegas.

http://www.urbanmarket.com/csi2000/pub/Worldcomp06/Understanding%20Instruction%20Books%20and%20Programs.pdf

The paper takes the form of a dialog between two ‘super-observers’ SO1 and SO2 discussing a modified Chinese Room experiment to conduct an examination of seldom-discussed artifacts, the instruction manual and/or the computer program in the room.

The following is the set of slides used during the presentation:

http://www.urbanmarket.com/csi2000/pub/Worldcomp06/Understanding%20Instruction%20Manuals%20and%20Programs_files/frame.htm

This was a powerpoint presentation. Some slides have animation and require you to click on the slide to see the animation.