CS 495   Special Topics:  ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Fall 1999,  Instructor: Jeffrey Horn
 

ANNOUNCEMENTS (Monday, Oct. 18, 1999)

General Announcements (for all students)

HOMEWORK 2, due next Monday (Oct. 25), see below

• HOMEWORK 1 DUE next Wednesday!! (unless you hand in Part 1, below, and get an automatic extension!)
• Come to the MAA Zonal Meeting, right here in West Science, this Fri. and Sat.  See here for info.
• Update to HW1:  The search engine in Java is working.  I am sure of it (Calder!).  Check it ou below.  Let's discuss in class today.
• Homework 0:  See below!  Due immediately!!
• Homework 1:

• Original Course Announcement
• Syllabus

POSSIBLE TOPICS

• AI as SEARCH
• Planning
• State Space Search
• Heuristic Search
• Adverserial Search
• STIMULUS-RESPONSE AGENTS
• Look-up tables
• Braitenberg Vehicles
• Classifier Systems
• Prisoners' Dilemma
• NEURAL NETWORKS
• ARTIFICIAL LIFE and EVOLUTION
• ROBOTICS
• AUTOMATED LOGIC (HAL)
• Knowledge bases and deduction engines
• Why HAL went insane:  brittleness
• Fuzzy logic, an answer to brittleness
• MACHINE LEARNING

• HOMEWORK  0:  Getting in touch
1. Due Wednesday, Sept. 15.
2. Subscribe to the Genetic Programming mailing list and read any interesting messages.  Instructions.
• (I encourage you to subscribe to any of the other AI lists on that page, but GP is the only one mandated!)
3. Send me your email address, to "jhorn@nmu.edu"
• HOMEWORK 1 (project 1):  Automated Planning as State Space Search (here)  (due end of Ocotober!  Nov. 1, which is a Monday)
• HOMEWORK 2:  Uniformed State Space Search (here) (due Monday, Oct. 25)
• HOMEWORK 3:  Stimulus-Response Agents  (here)  (due Monday, Nov. 8)
• HOMWORk 4:  (project 2):  Robots

TESTS AND QUIZES

FINAL

• There will be no final exam in this class. Instead, everyone MUST complete a final project, the topic of which is to be agreed upon by the halfway point of the semester, whenever that is!