Other Areas of Learning

Furse has also been working on other areas of human learning, including board games, computer programming, foreign languages, and music. Again, the same methodological approach has been taken to study a genuine human learning task from an educational area, and to largely look in detail at the text books used to teach the subject. Then, his students build complex computational models which attempt to be psychologically faithful to the real human learning task. Needless, to say much of this work is in its infancy, but one student, Graham Beven, has submitted his PhD on a system that is able to learn, in principle, any board game within a certain class of games, with little prior knowledge.

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