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1 Doing Research at UT (and in the Digital Age)

2 Powerful Online Resources OED online scoUT Google Scholar Let’s visit the UT Library web site: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/

3 The OED Let’s look up: robot silly blog Go to Research Tools, then Reference Sites.

4 Google Scholar Let’s look up Turing Test Moore’s Law Pygmalion In Google, scoUT, and Google Scholar.

5 scoUT Following Up the News http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/junk-dna-concept-debunked- by-new-analysis-of-human-genome/2012/09/05/cf296720-f772-11e1-8398- 0327ab83ab91_story.htmlhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/junk-dna-concept-debunked- by-new-analysis-of-human-genome/2012/09/05/cf296720-f772-11e1-8398- 0327ab83ab91_story.html http://news.yahoo.com/test-aims-better-detect-viral-infections-180243374.html

6 Making Google Smarter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmQl6VGvX-c The Knowledge Graph

7 What to Believe? Fact checking Bias Marketing Political

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9 Fact Checking www.google.com (Betsy Ross)www.google.com www.google.com (Thanksgiving)www.google.com For matters of fact, Wikipedia is almost always very good.

10 But Wikipedia Isn’t Always Right and Claims Get Passed On From Wikipedia article “Automaton”:From Wikipedia article And againagain The text of Pindar’s 7 th Olympic OdeThe text … to quote Pindar's seventh Olympic Ode:Pindar The animated figures stand Adorning every public street And seem to breathe in stone, or move their marble feet. From Wikipedia article “Automaton”:From Wikipedia article

11 Drive Thru Restaurants Query: Who invented the drive through window?

12 Drive Thru Restaurants Query: Who invented the drive through window? On October 4, 2009 I got this answer.this answer

13 Drive Thru Restaurants http://www.google.com/ Query: Who invented the drive through window? On October 4, 2009 I got this answer.this answer

14 Making Wikipedia Better http://www.technologyreview.com/web/23355/?a=f WikiTrust http://www.wikitrust.net/

15 Traveling the Web Save for chemotherapy http://www.snopes.com/

16 Traveling the Web Federal law allows only the Texas state flag to be flown at the same level as the national flag. http://www.snopes.com/

17 Evaluating Claims A robot, in order to be able to exhibit human-level intelligence will need to have 1 petabyte of memory and be able to compute 10 9 mips. Is this claim falsifiable? 1 petabyte = 1000 5 bytes or 1,000,000 gigabytes.

18 Evaluating Claims Robots are artifacts, and consciousness abhors an artifact; only something natural, born not manufactured, could exhibit genuine consciousness. Is this claim falsifiable? Source: http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/concrobt.htmhttp://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/concrobt.htm

19 Evaluating Claims ALPAC Report on Machine Translation, 1966 We do not have useful machine translation [and] there is no immediate or predictable prospect of useful machine translation. Let’s see where we are today: http://www.google.com/ http://www.google.com/

20 Evaluating Claims http://www.kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.html?main=memelist.html?m=1%23691 Forward to The Intelligent UniverseForward to The Intelligent Universe By Ray KurzweilRay Kurzweil The explosive nature of exponential growth means it may only take a quarter of a millennium to go from sending messages on horseback to saturating the matter and energy in our solar system with sublimely intelligent processes. The ongoing expansion of our future superintelligence will then require moving out into the rest of the universe, where we may engineer new universes. A new book by James Gardner tells that story.

21 Accuracy in the Age of Photoshop

22 Libraries in the Digital Age This:Or: ?

23 Remembering History The Wayback Machine: http://www.archive.org/web/web.php http://www.archive.org/web/web.php The Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org/about/about.php http://www.archive.org/about/about.php

24 Translations http://www.fln.vcu.edu/hoffmann/sand_e_pics.html E. T. Hoffmann, “The Sandman” Certainly you must all be uneasy that I have not written for so long - so very long. My mother, am sure, is angry, and Clara will believe that I am passing my time in dissipation, entirely forgetful of her fair, angelic image that is so deeply imprinted on my heart. http://gaslight.mtroyal.ca/sandman.htm I KNOW you are all very uneasy because I have not written for such a long, long time. Mother, to be sure, is angry, and Clara, I dare say, believes I am living here in riot and revelry, and quite forgetting my sweet angel, whose image is so deeply engraved upon my heart and mind.

25 Citations … until in 1978 when a man named Vernon Mountcastle published a paper titled, “…”.

26 Citations … until in 1978 when a man named Vernon Mountcastle published a paper titled, “…”. until the publication of “…” (Mountcastle 1978).

27 MLA Style http://www.mla.org/style_faq1

28 MLA Style A Guide: http://library.osu.edu/sites/guides/mlagd.phphttp://library.osu.edu/sites/guides/mlagd.php Tools: http://citationmachine.net/ http://www.easybib.com/cite/form/book


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