Symbolic vs. Connectionist

Marvin Minsky, in his paper, does not subscribe to extremist views. Instead, he argues that Artificial Intelligence must employ many approaches. Artificial Intelligence is not like circuit theory and electromagnetism. So why is there so much excitement about Neural Networks today, and how is this related to research on Artificial Intelligence and Learning Design?

What is Web 2.0? Ideas, technologies and implications for education.

At the end of 2006, Time magazine’s Person of the Year was ‘You’. On the cover of the magazine, underneath the title of the award, was a picture of a PC with a mirror in place of the screen, reflecting not only the face of the reader, but also the general feeling that 2006 was the year of the Web - a new, improved, 'second version', 'user generated' Web. But how accurate is our perception of so-called 'Web 2.0'?