"Expert System" Practicing Law?

A Wired.com story about an "Expert System" designed by Henry Iherjirika that received input from customers about income, debt, etc. and issued a complete set of bankruptcy filings for them. The short of it is that this system was deemed to be making too many decisions to be a tool, and instead was charged with giving legal advice without a license.

AI Cited for Unlicensed Practice of Law

Thinking Big: Robotics in the 21st Century

This is a video and transcript of an interview between WGBH's (Boston PBS) Lisa Mullins and James McLurkin, an engineer at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab discussing some of the issues, practical and theoretical, associated with A.I. development.

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Atomic Compilation

This video is a compilation of atomic bomb tests.

Atomic Test Compilation - Celebrity bloopers here

The Bomb Project

The Bomb Project is a website full of information about the bomb, nuclear accidents, atomic art, etc. This is a great resource for just about any topic having to do with the a-bomb. I set the link to the popular culture page. American, British, and Japanese films and television shows are listed on the page.

Atomic Films

I am looking at atomic culture through film and literature. This site has a number of different movie posters of atomic films.

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Blog Assignment II: Post 3 links related to your paper topic

Between now and next Thursday (April 10), find three links (to a relevant article, blog, video, etc.) that are related to your paper topic and post them on this blog. As you may rememember from our blog tutorial in January, www.archive.org is an excellent source for historical materials, including video clips.

Satellites, Cosmonauts, and Astronauts

U.S. Newsreel on Sputnik launch downplays Cold War angle and calls Sputnik "one of the great scientific feats of the age."

Here's a color video of several early Soviet launches, including Sputnik 1 and Sputnik 2 (Laika's mission).

Here's a video of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin's 1961 launch.

Ten months later, NASA launches John Glenn into orbit.

This video is a 1968 educational film (brought to you by Kodak) that profiles Robert Goddard and highlights contemporary model rocket clubs. (despite its posted title, there's nothing here about John Glenn).