1. Which company offers the LISP machine considered “the most powerful symbolic processor available”?
a) LMI
b) Symbolics
c) Xerox
d) Texas Instruments
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2. What of the following is considered a pivotal event in the history of Artificial Intelligence?
a) 1949, Donald O, The organization of Behavior
b) 1950, Computing Machinery and Intelligence
c) 1956, Dartmouth University Conference Organized by John McCarthy
d) 1961, Computer and Computer Sense
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3. What are the two subfields of Natural language processing?
a) symbolic and numeric
b) time and motion
c) algorithmic and heuristic
d) understanding and generation
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4. A bidirectional feedback loop links computer modeling with _____________
a) artificial science
b) heuristic processing
c) human intelligence
d) cognitive science
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5. Which of the following have people traditionally done better than computers?
a) recognizing relative importance
b) finding similarities
c) resolving ambiguity
d) all of the mentioned
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6. In LISP, the function evaluates both and is _____________
a) set
b) setq
c) add
d) eva
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7. Which type of actuator generates a good deal of power but tends to be messy?
a) electric
b) hydraulic
c) pneumatic
d) both hydraulic & pneumatic
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8. Research scientists all over the world are taking steps towards building computers with circuits patterned after the complex interconnections existing among the human brain’s nerve cells. What name is given to such type of computers?
a) Intelligent computers
b) Supercomputers
c) Neural network computers
d) Smart computers
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9. The integrated circuit was invented by Jack Kilby of _____________
a) MIT
b) Texas Instruments
c) Xerox
d) All of the mentioned
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10. People overcome natural language problems by _____________
a) grouping attributes into frames
b) understanding ideas in context
c) identifying with familiar situations
d) both understanding ideas in context & identifying with familiar situations
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