What is the term used for describing the judgmental or commonsense part of problem solving?
A. Heuristic
B. Critical
C. Value based
D. Analytical
E. None of the above
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What stage of the manufacturing process has been described as "the mapping of function onto form"?
A. Design
B. Distribution
C. project management
D. field service
E. None of the above
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Which kind of planning consists of successive representations of different levels of a plan?
A. hierarchical planning
B. non-hierarchical planning
C. All of the above
D. project planning
E. None of the above
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What was originally called the "imitation game" by its creator?
A. The Turing Test
B. LISP
C. The Logic Theorist
D. Cybernetics
E. None of the above
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Decision support programs are designed to help managers make:
A. budget projections
B. visual presentations
C. business decisions
D. vacation schedules
E. None of the above
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PROLOG is an AI programming language which solves problems with a form of symbolic logic known as predicate calculus. It was developed in 1972 at the University of Marseilles by a team of specialists. Can you name the person who headed this team?
A. Alain Colmerauer
B. Nicklaus Wirth
C. Seymour Papert
D. John McCarthy
E. None of the above
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Programming a robot by physically moving it through the trajectory you want it to follow is called:
A. contact sensing control
B. continuous-path control
C. robot vision control
D. pick-and-place control
E. None of the above
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To invoke the LISP system, you must enter
A. AI
B. LISP
C. CL (Common Lisp)
D. both b and c
E. None of the above
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DEC advertises that it helped to create "the world's first expert system routinely used in an industrial environment," called XCON or:
A. PDP-11
B. Rl
C. VAX
D. MAGNOM
E. None of the above
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Prior to the invention of time sharing, the prevalent method of computer access was:
A. batch processing
B. telecommunication
C. remote access
D. All of the above
E. None of the above
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Seymour Papert of the MIT AI lab created a programming environment for children called:
A. BASIC
B. LOGO
C. MYCIN
D. FORTRAN
E. None of the above
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The Strategic Computing Program is a project of the:
A. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
B. National Science Foundation
C. Jet Propulsion Laboratory
D. All of the above
E. None of the above
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The original LISP machines produced by both LMI and Symbolics were based on research performed at:
A. CMU
B. MIT
C. Stanford University
D. RAMD
E. None of the above
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In LISP, the addition 3 + 2 is entered as
A. 3 + 2
B. 3 add 2
C. 3 + 2 =
D. (+ 3 2)
E. None of the above
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Weak AI is
A. the embodiment of human intellectual capabilities within a computer.
B. a set of computer programs that produce output that would be considered to reflect intelligence if it were generated by humans.
C. the study of mental faculties through the use of mental models implemented on a computer.
D. All of the above
E. None of the above
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In LISP, the function assigns the symbol x to y is
A. (setq y x)
B. (set y = 'x')
C. (setq y = 'x')
D. (setq y 'x')
E. None of the above
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In LISP, the function returns t if <object> is a CONS cell and nil otherwise:
A. (cons)
B. (consp)
C. (eq)
D. (cous =)
E. None of the above
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In a rule-based system, procedural domain knowledge is in the form of:
A. production rules
B. rule interpreters
C. meta-rules
D. control rules
E. None of the above
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If a robot can alter its own trajectory in response to external conditions, it is considered to be:
A. intelligent
B. mobile
C. open loop
D. non-servo
E. None of the above
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One of the leading American robotics centers is the Robotics Institute located at:
A. CMU
B. MIT
C. RAND
D. SRI
E. None of the above
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