Update: The 2012 SI124 Student Viral Video Projects are available!
It seems as though technology is getting smarter all the time. How is this happening? Is it some mysterious secret military technolory or did it come from extra terrestrial aliens? Or perhaps is it simply a matter of studying human nature and patterns in data and writing software to extract the "intelligence".
How does Google decide what ads to put on the right side of this page? How does YouTube decide when to sell ads in a particular video the might go viral before it has a thousand views? How does Google know exactly what page to show you when you search for "2002 pontiac grand am broken windshield trim"?
... the iPad Steering Wheel Mount is much safer than other forms of in-car distraction. -- Charles Severance
This course explores how people, information and technology can be brought together to produce somthing that seems to be smart or seems to be thinking.