COSC 159
FUNDAMENTALS OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Syllabus
Spring, 1998
Instructor: Dr. Michael Slattery
Office: CU 309
Phone: 288-6595
Email: mikes (a) mscs.mu.edu

Office hours: Mon 2-3PM, Wed 1-2PM, and Thurs 11-12AM. Please feel free to set up an appointment with me if these times are inconvenient.

Text: Dean, Allen, and Aloimonos, Artificial Intelligence: Theory and Practice

Website: www.mscs.mu.edu/~mikes/159/

Grading:

  • 10% in-class exam on Fri, Feb 13
  • 10% in-class exam on Wed, Mar 25
  • 20% 2 hour final exam on Mon, May 4 at 1:00PM
  • 60% Homework - programming and writing

    There will be some written assignments on material in the book and some programming assignments.

    In general, a grade of B will be given for papers which satisfy the assignment nicely. The grades of A and AB are reserved for outstanding solutions which display extra effort. Late assignments will receive a lower grade than they would if received on time.

    Approximate order of topics:

  • Introduction/History of AI (Chapter 1)
  • Lisp (Chapter 2)
  • Search (Chapter 4)
  • Heuristics
  • Game Playing
  • Reasoning (Chapter 3)
  • Formal Logic
  • Automated Theorem Proving
  • Learning (Chapter 5)
  • Version Spaces
  • Neural Nets
  • Prolog/Expert Systems
  • Planning (Chapter 7)
  • Natural Language (Chapter 10)
    • Comments: Outside reading may help you to understand various topics better. Appropriate information can be found in the references provided in the text as well as current journal articles.

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