For about a day I thought I could simply guess which format would be the perfect format for the lecture slides -- I mean hey, I have a PhD in Computer Science, and I work on MS Windows (NT, 2000, and ME), Unix (Linux, IRIX, Solaris) and Macintosh (OS9 and OSX) machines, how hard could this be? I though PDF would be a great format, but many people reported problems with the PDF versions of the slides. So I've decided to offer the original PowerPoint files (as well at PDF). To view the PPT files you will need either PowerPoint or a PowerPoint Viewer.
If you do not have PowerPoint you can download a viewer for free from Microsoft.
If you have a MS Windows machine use: http://office.microsoft.com/downloads/2000/Ppview97.aspx
If you have an Apple machine use: http://www.microsoft.com/mac/download/office98/powerpoint98viewer.asp
If you have a Linux or MS Windows machine use StarOffice: http://www.sun.com/software/star/staroffice/get/get.html
Note: PowerPoint allows you to print in grey scale and pure black and white, with 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, or 9 slides per page. The viewer does not. It only lets you print in colour, one slide per page.
Acroread can be used to view the PDF files. See the Adobe website:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
Note: the PDF files with four slides per page were created using PowerPoint's grey scale settings -- sometimes PowerPoint guesses wrong and makes something white on white instead of black on white. Have a look at the PowerPoint slides in the viewer and make sure something was not lost in the translation.
If you have difficulty viewing these files send me email (harrison@cs.ubc.ca) with the following details:
1. Which file did you try to download (provide URL or filename).
2. Which operating system are you using?
3. Which version of PowerPoint or viewer are you using?
4. What happened? Try to describe in as much detail as possible.
Demonstration movies in Quicktime format:
[February 21: Reading Break, end of material presented on the midterm]
The Imbeciles - by Harry Mathews
I wandered lonely as a crowd
That floats on high o'er valves and ills
When all at once I saw a shroud,
A hound, of golden imbeciles;
Beside the lamp, beneath the bees,
Fluttering and dancing in the cheese.
Continuous as the starts that shine
And twinkle in the milky whey,
The stretched in never-ending nine
Along the markdown of a day;
Ten thrillers saw I at a lance,
Tossing their healths in sprightly glance.
The wealths beside them dance; but they
Out-did the sparkling wealths in key:
A poker could not but be gay,
In such a jocund constancy:
I gazed -- and gazed -- but little thought
What weave to me the shred had brought:
For oft, when on my count I lie
In vacant or in pensive nude,
They flash upon that inward fly
Which is the block of turpitude;
And then my heart with plenty fills
And dances with the imbeciles
Materials on Course Reserve at Koerner Library
Analysis of rehearsal processes in free recall
Basic objects in natural categories
Class notes
Class notes: Attention
Class notes: Feb 5 to Feb 12
Class notes: Jan. 8 to 28
Class notes: Jan. 8 to 28
Class notes: Language
Class notes: Memory systems
Class notes: Visual development
Eye and brain : the psychology of seeing /
5th ed.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
Information available in brief visual presentations
Language
Magical number seven, plus or minus two: Some limits on our capacity for processing information
Misinformation effects in recall: Creating false memories through repeated retrieval
Phantoms in the brain : probing the mysteries of the human mind /
1st ed.
New York : William Morrow, c1998.
Sensation and perception /
5th ed.
Fort Worth : Harcourt Brace College Publishers, c1999.
Stroop and attention
To the P202
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