Announcements

Welcome to PGSS 2007!

You probably want to look at the Syllabus and Resources items in the menu on the left, as well as the Lecture notes there.
(I could have linked them to this text, but you might as well start using the menu now.)

Also, be sure to look at the Textbook link, for any mistakes discovered in the textbook!

If anyone wants to talk with me one-on-one, send me email.

Thu Jun 28: I have fixed the Comment Box. I believe the whole PGSS CS website is now up-to-date. Let me know if anything doesn't seem to be working.

Mon Jul 9: Assignment 2 is now available. (You will know enough about Playing Games and the Internet before the end of the week to do this assignment.)

Tue Jul 10: As someone has already noticed, the FishNet server that your program will talk to over the net is up and ready.
Contact me (by email) or the TAs if it's ever down. The TAs are easier to find outside of normal business hours.

Thu Jul 12: This is the first year that no one brought up Al Gore when I mentioned the Internet! For the record, he actually never claimed to have invented the internet, and what he did say was true!

Fri Jul 13: The solution for Assignment 1 has been released (see "solutions" to the left).

Tue Jul 17: For those of you interested, there is info available on the web about the DigiComp plastic computer I brought to class.
Also, I realized I mis-spoke about the core memory plane I showed. It is a 4k-bit core plane (not 1k as I said) from a CDC computer; there are also pictures of it on the web that show how it was used to build a core memory.
There's also a good description of Charles Babbage's mechanical computer.

Fri Jul 20: We're working on the FishNet Tournament...

Mon 23 Jul: If you recall the Playing Games lecture, I mentioned that it might be possible to prove that there's a guaranteed solution to chess, like tic-tac-toe. Well, just now, checkers has been solved, according to an article in Science Magazine. Checkers is simpler than chess, but pretty tough to solve, as the article makes clear. Chess is next, maybe...