2008년 4월 27일 일요일

4/23.4/25 HUMAN COMUTER INTERACTION

introduction to information technology
[4/23,4/25 -- Human-Computer Interaction--]

This class was related to Human-computer interaction called HCI. HCI is just part of computer science. However we didn’t look around HCI in it’s perspective, we did HCI in art, ethic perspective. Key point of it is that people often interact with media technologies as though the technologies were people. Then ironical thing was that HCI related to ethics. Moreover aesthetics and design do too. We looked around a history of HICI as tools. Surprisingly, we already studied them : Bush’s memex, Ivan Sutherland’s sketchpad, Engelbart’s mouse and GUI and word processing, Nelson’s hypertext, so on. World wide web using now is it, too. Interest thing is that initial generation of HCI concentrated only tools(mouse, key board…) as method based on industrial design. However we use and invent the method over it having a purpose.

Then, what is the purpose of tools of the HCI? Answer is that the devices announce human’s direction or indication to the computers.In except, many field including the Military, Universities, Government, Companies were interested in the HCI. Thus they fund it.Finally, HCI met the AI. However there was a question : Should the computer act like a person?. There were

two opinions. First, the agent similar to system of Amazon.com . It can do some things human does not command. The other hand, the direct manipulation can do only some things human does command. Then we should to consider to give some meaning or define(co-construction of meaning). We watched some movies of the HCI, after.We recalled the ELIZA. ELIZA answers our questions but they are not correct. However it is not fail. It is so human.Then, we can do Johnstone’s algorithms. First, point a person, and make him to say something. He will say “I can’t say something.”(shying). Then we should to say to him that “Ok, then can you guess the answer in my mind. Give me questions”(in fact, we have no idea). Then He will start to question and get out of pressure of talking. When we answer the his question, we will have some ruleAs a result, he will happy to know right answer and shout to it. What we draw on it?

Ethnomethodology simply means the study of the ways in which people make sense of their social world. Ethnomethodologists assume that social order is illusory. That is order of world is defined by my taste. It is far from mind of 1600s.HCI is from Films. Technology inspires films and film inspires new technology. The new technology develops the HCI, so we can anticipate developing of the HCI in the films. That is, Films are anticipating or inspiring HCI.

2008년 4월 12일 토요일

4/11 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

introduction to information technology
[4/11 -- Artificial Intelligence--]




This week's theme is Artificial Intelligence(A.I). Some years ago I have ever seen movie 'A.I.' . That movie made to be impressed me by a splendidly screen, and humanity. In some respect, that story is unimaginable. but it is very surprising sudy.

Artificial intelligence is a type of computer technology which is concerned with making machine work in an intelligent way. This class we learned Alan Turing. He is founder of computer science, artificial intelligence, mathematician. and so on. He made one game. That called "imitation game." The game is playing by 3 people. Man and woman stays in a room apart from the other. and one people perform another sex. than interrogator guess and determine person's sex. Can you guess it? That will be difficult than you think. We should judge by logical or context or flow conditions.

Marvin Minsky defined AI. That is the science of making machines do things that would require intelligence if done by human.

So Artificial intelligence need research areas. For example representation, languages, understanding, vision(computer vision system), robotics and so on. But researcher met a difficulty research. so AI couldn't cope with all. There are problems. but It is algorithm programming. So funding was stopted.

Planning as a technical problem is GPS. GPS is general problem solve. It is what is known in AI as a 'planner' It need that a full and accurate model of the " state of the world."

2008년 4월 4일 금요일

4/2 , 4/4 SOCIAL NETWORKS

introduction to information technology
[4/2 , 4/4 -- Social Networks-- ]


This time, we learn social networks. We live in a global village and society. So we need communicate other people and express my view. like this, In age of new media, we need social networks too. In fact new media technologies usually reinforce existing social networks or even work to isolate people. But when new media technologies facilitate new social networks.

Network is to know each other. We learned social networks as science, technology, popular culture and art. First as science, social network analysis is and interdisciplinary social science it concerned sociologists. buy physicist and mathematicians helping them by diagrams and mass balance data. Social network's history express a family trees. also in 1967, stanley milgram 's study show us that people thought might be able to reach the target whether directly or via a "friend of a friend" that six-degrees fo separation. and another study, Sometimes acquaintances are more valuable than friends (week relationship > strong relationship : sometimes)

If you connect separate networks you have bridging capital or bonding capital. bridging capital is connect each other. and bonding capital is the center of one group.
Social networks as art are friendster Map and global networks and so on. Social networks is dynamic relation. that grains and change. almost every day. many people want visualize social networks. so they express by variable method. map, diagrams graph and so on.

This class I leaned many method and social network's importance. Our society can definite networks.

2008년 3월 29일 토요일

3/26, 3/28 WWW

introduction to information technology
[3/26, 3/28 -- WWW -- ]


This week's new key point is "People make media and then media make people." People make up the media by some data, and media make people. 'media make people' means that people need to help for media in the recognition. It likes people and name 's connection. when we recognize the man, we need his name.
WWW can express three point. One is a collaboratively authored hypertext. Next is a standard. third, it is a vast. WWW is huge, big and wide thing. www is heterogeneous network of people and machines.
We learned ISO, IETF and RFC. ISO is international standards organization. It acts as a bridge between public and private sector. IETF is internet engineering task force. and RFC is request for comments. that is very good system. It can listen a suggestion.
Also we learn URL and HTML. URL is universal resource locator. It contain protocol(http, ftp, mailto), scheme(server, directory, file after), urn( in a specific name, a speciric resource). HTML is hypertext markup language. It is derived from sgml.
Last Dr.Yoon introduced "Nam Jun Paik'. I think his work of art's special feature is participation. In 1960s, he invent several special things. that would not think another people in those days. His art exist as art, technology, and some different form. I am impressed him.
This time is so difficult to understand text and the words. but I try to understand. When appear unknown word, I skip and read the rest. so I comprehend on the whole.

2008년 3월 22일 토요일

3/21 HYPERTEXT

introduction to information technology
[3/21 -- HYPERTEXT -- ]


Beginning class. we review last time. after we get a outline. and preview two key point.
Hypertext is a way of connecting piece of text so that you can go quickly and directly from one to another. This week's point is that. New media was made, but that do not replace old media, they displace them. for example, folder icon(We use in computer) has come from real folder(We filed some paper).

Like this media use some method to make a new media. One of them is hypertext. we can see many video and poem about hypertext media. that is different another poem. Tristan Tzara's recipe for composing a poem is cutting out the article and bring it back all together by automatic writing. also software artist are cutting up. Many "cut ups" have a some noise or another phenomenon. but sometimes it in natural course.

Another thing is computing of the 1960s. in 1960s standard computer was hollerith cards and paper printouts. and computer human interaction was very slow so, they want better, faster comprehension. after that engelbart's invite batch processing. in result to input and output is better. Engelbart's motivation is extending human intelligence.

H-LAM/T system is connect human knowledge(intelligence) and mechanical. it use connecting interface.

2008년 3월 15일 토요일

3/12, 3/14 INTRODUCTION

introduction to information technology
[3/12, 3/14 -- INTRODUCTION -- ]


This week we learned relationship that digital media technologies and people. and we discussion questions it. for example egg white(medium in art), the politics of cars. People paint that is media and the car was connect, separate something, that is media too. The result is technologies embody social, political, cultural, economic ad philosophical ideas and relationships.

And this week, we read the some assay. The first is "welcome to the present". like as science and technologies, we called "becomes known information" that fast improved, "reality" is further distance ourselves form it. because reality is experience and true fact. but we spend time, tool is more and more improved. Economic element can’t reach to increased slowly. that unexperience fact. When digital media technologies connect or separate people, they become media.

The second, this week's main reading is "As We May Think" by Vannevar Bush. When it follows, the memex was memorize big data. and retrieval informations. The key people/types of people bush white that is all people. scientists, men, girls, secretaries, calculators. and we said creative thinking. that is different think, maid new one from base thinking, or original thinking. and we said intyitive judgement. also that question, “what is the essential feature of the memex?" that answer is save the information and retrieval.

Yet I don't know digital media and I feel difficult this english calss. but I study this week. than I am interested this english class. I will study hard this semester. and I will frequently particepate this class.