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From: Lynn A Stein <las@ai.mit.edu>
To: 6.096-students@ai.mit.edu
Subject: 6.096 Assignment 0


			      6.096 Fall 96
			       Assignment 0

This assignment is formally due in class on Tuesday, 10 September, but we
would appreciate it if you would turn it in (by emailing it to
6.096-staff@ai.mit.edu) by 5pm on Monday, 9 September.

Part A.

Be sure to read through the 6.096 general information handout, and in
particular the collaboration policy.  For this assignment, you may discuss
the project in as much detail as you like with your classmates, but you
should do the writeup on your own.  You may also get comments from other
students on your writeup before turning it in, if you wish.  Please
include the names of anyone with whom you collaborate, in any way, on this
assignment, and indicte the nature of the collaboration.

Part B.

Pretend that you are corresponding by email with a Martian pen pal.
(Alternately, pretend you're corresponding with your 6.096 professor,
which can often feel the same.)  Pick some artifact -- an everyday object
-- and describe it to your pen pal.  Remember that Martians (and
Professors) know very little about life on Earth, so you should make your
description fairly detailed and specific.  The description should run
approximately one paragraph, and in no circumstances should it exceed one
page.  (Martians have notoriously short attention spans.)

Part C.

Now pick a process: something that you (or other people) DO.  Write a
similarly detailed description of this process for your Martian pen pal.
Again, use about a paragraph and no more than a page.

Part D.

Send these two descriptions, together with the information listed below,
to 6.096-staff@ai.mit.edu by electronic mail by 5pm on Monday, 9
September.  The lab assistants will be able to help you do this as a part
of the in-class laboratory session from 2-5pm on Monday in E53-220.

Additional information to include:  
      your name as the registrar knows it
      your name as you wish us to use it (if different)
      your email address
      your campus (or off-campus) address
      your local phone number
      the names of anyone with whom you collaborated on this assignment
