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From: rao@parichaalak.eas.asu.edu (Subbarao Kambhampati)
Subject: Re: Explaining AI to 12 year olds
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Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 15:15:44 GMT
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>Chris Reisbeck suggests a robot putting on a jacket as an exercise
>for getting students to think about how much ambiguity is involved in
>everyday tasks
>

A similar idea with a twist is used by the local WISE (women in
science and engineering) group when they get highschool girls to come
and spend a couple of days at ASU getting exposure to engineering in
summer. At the end of the 2 days, they have an "icecream social" where
the students need to write a "program" for making an icecream sunday
and one of the organizers will "execute the program" with hilarious
effect. 


Rao
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