Why War Games is the one and only full length

major motion picture that you will watch this year

and why it is academically relevant.

Please don’t fire me Dr. Noto ;)

WAR GAMES

Old Technology Before the days of Wifi, High Speed

Internet, fiber optics. Dialing in on a telephone line. 80’s

Passwords - Guessing A well chosen password is un-hackable. If only numbers are used then each

digit multiplies the number of combinations by a factor of 10

If you add lower case letters then each digit has a factor of 36 (10 + 26)

If all ASCII printable characters are used then each digit has a factor of 95 (10 + 26 + 26 + 43)

Passwords - Guessing So a password of length 10 would

equal 95 ^ 10 which would equal 59,873,693,923,837,890,625 possibilities.

So even if a computer would be able to guess 1 million times a second then it would take 1,898,582 years to go through all possibilities.

And that assumes that no one changes the password or blocks the user!

Passwords – Human Intelligence School Password – written down on a

piece of paper Wopper Password – the name of the

son of the man who designed the computer

Artificial Intelligence Intelligence - abstract thought, understanding, self-

awareness, communication, reasoning, learning, having emotional knowledge, retaining, planning, and problem solving

A computer is a machine and what ever analytical thought it displays is a preprogramed algorithm.

The Holy Grail in AI is to be able to design a computer to learn.

A lot is still not understood about how our brain operates. Regions are used for certain purposes, some of the chemical mechanics are known, but as of now it is not known if and how humans have original thought.

Ethics and Technology Can a computer be trusted to make

life and death decisions? Any more so than a human?

Can a computer understand death? Tic Tac Toe Drones End of Life Care Surveillance

Games Shall we play a game? What is the difference between a

game and life?