CS 4341 - Artificial Intelligence - A06

Version: Wed Aug 23 16:16:27 EDT 2006

When/where: MTRF, noon, AK 233 (note change of location)

Web:   http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~dcb/courses/CS4341/2006/

Instructor: Prof. David C. Brown

This course gives a broad survey of Artificial Intelligence. Several basic techniques such as search methods and knowledge representation are covered. Selected topics involving the applications of these tools will be investigated. Such topics include natural language understanding, scene understanding, game playing, learning and planning. Recommended background: CS 3431 and CS 3733.

Textbook:

Patrick Henry Winston
Artificial Intelligence (3rd Edition)
Addison Wesley, 1992.
(Paperback, Reprinted with corrections, May 1993)
ISBN: 0201533774
Available used from $27-$46 (e.g., Amazon)

Information:

• Vital Information   {Dates, grading, exams, late policy, etc.}
• Schedule
• Course Contents
• Course Outcomes

Projects:

• Projects Overview
• Project 1   (Evaluation criteria)
• Project 2   (Evaluation criteria)
• Project 3   (Evaluation criteria)

The Turing Test:

• Home Page of The Loebner Prize--"The First Turing Test"
• Eliza (The first "Chatterbot")
• How one Chatterbot works
• CAPTCHA--a simple Turing Test.

AI Resources

• Milestones in the Development of Artificial Intelligence
• AAAI AI Topics ***
• Interesting AI Demos and Projects
• What is Artificial Intelligence?, John McCarthy.
• AI: An Illustrative Overview, Aaron Sloman.
• Concepts of Logical AI, John McCarthy.
• Challenge Problems for Artificial Intelligence, AAAI-96.
• Online AI class notes
• Deep Blue
• Chinook: World Man-Machine Checkers Champion
• The University of Alberta GAMES Group
• NASA's Remote Agent Experiment

LISP (and some Scheme) Information

• Some hints on LISP/Scheme use at WPI
• Some LISP functions to start with
• LISP I/O hints
• Sample init.lsp file for some lisps
  
• Debugging!
• JHU Resources and references on Common Lisp {Lots of great information}
• P. Graham's LISP resources
  • LISP History
• Common Lisp Tutorial
• Free Trial download of Allegro CL 8.0 Express Edition for Windows
  • Allegro Common Lisp FAQ

• LISP FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
• Guy L. Steele Jr., Common Lisp: The Language
  (2nd edn), Digital Press, 1990. {Reference material}
• Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation {textbook}

• Revised(4) Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme
• Teach Scheme
  • Download Dr Scheme

Research Group

• WPI AI Research Group
  {Students in this course are encouraged to attend AIRG meetings}