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Visual features of intermediate complexity and their use in classification, by Shimon Ullman, Michel Vidal-Naquet, and Erez Sali

WRT: 1.0 hours

Assignment

On a total of one side of one sheet of paper, using 10 pt type or larger, with standard interline spacing and margins, respond to all the following.

You have a nightmare in which you have just landed a job as a reporter for Popular Psychology. Your boss has commanded that you do a telephone interview with Ullman for the next issue, but you learn that he is inconveniently located at the Weizmann Institute in Israel. Eventually, you get through to him, but as Shabbas is about to start, he declines to answer your questions. Instead, he asks you to draft up how you think he would respond to your questions. He will use your draft as a starting point for framing his own answers once Shabbas is over.

• Produce the requested interview, focusing on the intermediate complexity paper.
• Be sure to cover V-S-N and contributions.
• Be sure to ask if his motivation was science-oriented or application-oriented.
• Ask him how he would handle faces in profile.

When you think you are finished, go back over your report to be sure that you have provided a few interesting, specific details.

For guidance on interviews, you might look at a 2050 interview with Sarah Winston, former President of the United States.