Instructor

Chris Welty

Contents

Announcements/Messages

Textbooks

Background

Course Schedule and Projects

Grading Policy

Messages:

• 10/23: The Interactive C manual is online. See the readings section below.
• 9/20: The second homework has been assigned.
• 9/11: The drop-box is ready. Look for Ferry in the Computer Science zone, and mount the "AI" disk. In there is a drop-box for submissions of your assignments.
• 9/11: Here is an article on robotic life mentioned by someone in class
• 9/11: Homework 1 is ready, see below.

Schedule:

Week	Topic			Chapters	Assignment
9/5	Introduction: AI, LISP			AI 1	Homework 1
9/12	Part I:  Intelligent Agents	Deliberative Systems Intelligence as Search	LISP Loops, State Spaces	AI 7,8	Homework 2
9/19			Heuristics, Playing Games	AI 9	Project 1
9/26			Minimax	AI 12
10/3		Reactive Systems Emergent Intelligence	Stimulus-Response	AI 2	Homework 3
10/10			S-R Robots	SR1
10/17			Threshold Logic Units	AI 3	Project 2
10/24	Fall Break
10/31	Part II: Knowledge Representation	Logic-Based Systems Deterministic Behavior	Propositional Logic	AI 13,14
11/7			Predicate Logic	AI 15,16
11/14			Frames and Description Logics	AI 18; SR2	Project 3
11/21			Ontological Analysis	SR3
11/28		Soft Computing Systems Probabalistic Behavior	Probablilistic Reasoning	AI 19.1-19.2	Homework 5
12/4			Bayesian Networks	AI 19.3-19.8	Project 4
12/11

Textbooks:

Nilsson, Nils.Artificial Intelligence: A New Synthesis. Morgan Kaufman, 1998. [AI]

Graham, Paul.  ANSI Common LISP.  Prentic-Hall, 1996. [CL]

Supplemental Readings:

• Brooks, Rodney. Artificial Intelligence through Building Robots. MIT AI Lab Memo 899, May 1986. Available in PS. [SR1]
• Brachman, R., McGuinness, D., Patel-Schneider, P., Borgida, A. and Resnick, L. Living with CLASSIC: When and How to Use a KL-ONE-Like Language. Principles of Semantic Networks. Morgan Kaufman. Pp. 401-456. May, 1991. [SR2]
• Welty, Chris. The Ontological Nature of Subject Taxonomies. In N. Guarino, ed., Formal Ontology in Information Systems. IOS Press Frontiers in AI Applictions Series. Trento, Italy. June, 1998. Available in HTML and PS.[SR3]
• Steele, Guy. Common LISP: The language. Digital Press.
• The Interactive C Manual.

Grading:

 

60%:	Programming Projects
20%:	Homeworks
10%:	Participation
10%:	Quizzes

The homeworks are small problem sets designed to be completed in a very short time in the lab. Collaboration with other students  is expected. The projects will be major programming tasks, and collaboration on the Projects is permitted, however what you turn in must be your own work. Blatant copying will result in a zero grade. The late penalty for Projects is 20% per day, with the weekend counting for one day.

 
Class participation is not a guaranteed 15%. You must attend classes  and demonstrate you have done the reading by participation in class. In addition, my travel schedule this semester is quite busy. For days that I will be absent, I will assign a student to lead the class or lab. This student will be responsible for doing the reading the week before, and meeting with me to discuss the material and the strategy for presentation. Half the participation grade will be based on these presentations. Following such classes, a quiz will be administered to all students. Overall performance on the quizzes will count toward the evaluation of the student leader.

Academic accommodations are available for students with documented disabilities. Please schedule an appointment with the instructor early in the semester to discuss any accommodation that may be needed for the course. All accommodations must be approved through the Office of Disability and Support Services (ext. 7584) as indicated in their accommodation letter.