Quick teaching topic: self-driving cars

This presentation centers around videos of self-driving cars. I use it to illustrate the role of research and prototypes in product development, as an example of embedded computers -- the Internet of things -- and as an (unconventional) example of an expert system.

There are slides with notes and links to short videos.

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Prototypes precede products

PowerPoint presentation

Skills: none
Concepts: research versus product prototypes

The Web – vision, prototype and product

PowerPoint presentation
Prerequisite topic module

Skills: none
Concepts: history of the Web, Internet culture, the contributions of Vannevar Bush, JCR Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Tim Berners-Lee, evolution from concept to product