CS 4341 - Artificial Intelligence

Version: Fri Mar 29 13:01:09 EDT 2013

When/where: D term, 2013, MTRF, 3:00pm, AK 219 ==> AK 233

Web:   http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~dcb/courses/CS4341/2013/

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 methods will be investigated. Such topics include natural language understanding, computer vision, game playing, learning and planning.

Textbook:

Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig, Artificial Intelligence: a modern approach, (3rd Edition), Prentice Hall, 2010.

Information:

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

Projects:

• Projects Overview
• Project 0   (Evaluation criteria)
• 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
Note that some of this information may be out of date

• 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, tutorial, and references on Common Lisp {Lots of great information}
• P. Graham's LISP resources
  • LISP History
• 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}

• Intro to Scheme
• How to Design Programs: An Introduction to Computing and Programming
• Revised(4) Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme
• Teach Scheme
• Racket