CS 534 Cisco Spring 2013 - Showcase Schedule

Computer Science Department

CS534 Artificial Intelligence
Showcase Presentations Schedule - Cisco Spring 2013

PROF. CAROLINA RUIZ

WARNING: Changes to this schedule may be made during the course period.

April 9th:
- Jeff Martin
  - Topic: NASA Remote Agent
  - Jeff's presentation slides
  - Other useful materials and links:
    - NASA Remote Agent Webpage
    - NASA's and Jet Propulsion Laboratory's paper: "Design of the Remote Agent Experiment for Spacecraft Autonomy". By D.E. Bernard, G.A. Dorais, C. Fry et al. Proceedings of the IEEE Aerospace Conference 1999.
- Mike Sandman
  - Topic: Soul Calibur AI
  - Mike' presentation slides
  - Other useful materials and links:
    - 8wayrun.com
April 16th:
- James Process
  - Topic: Pousse
  - James' presentation slides
  - Other useful materials and links:
    - Definition of the game Pousse
    - MIT's Cilk Pousse
- Samuel Erb
- Jay Lubomirski
  - Topic: Electronic essay graders
  - Jay's presentation slides
  - Other useful materials and links:
    - Winerip, M. (2012) "Facing a Robo-Grader? Just Keep Obfuscating Mellifluously" New York Times, April 22, 2012.
    - Ramineni, C. et al. (2012) "Evaluation of the e-rater® Scoring Engine for the GRE® Issue and Argument Prompts". Educational Testing Service (ETS) Research Report ETS RR.12-02.
    - Kolowich, S. (2012). "A Win for the Robo-Readers". Inside Higher Ed.
    - Shermis, M. et al. (2012). "Contrasting State-of-the-Art Automated Scoring of Essays: Analysis".
    - Dikli, S. (2006). "An Overview of Automated Scoring of Essays". Journal of Technology, Learning, and Assessment, 5(1).
April 23rd:
- Andrew Foltan
  - Topic: Neural Networks: ASAP and 20Q
  - Andy's presentation slides
  - Other useful materials and links:
- Alex Gutowski
  - Topic: A modern approach to the Turing Test
  - Alex's presentation slides
  - Other useful materials and links:
- Adam Veres
  - Topic: Mastering Chess
  - Alex's presentation slides
  - Other useful materials and links:
    - IBM's Deep Blue.
    - André Schulz. "The Last Man vs Machine?". Chess News.
    - Susan Polgar. "Important Official Rules of the Kramnik versus Fritz match". Chess Daily News and Information.
    - Levy, David; Newborn, Monty (1991), How Computers Play Chess, Computer Science Press, ISBN 0-7167-8121-2
    - Digital computers applied to games'. n.d. AMT's contribution to 'Faster than thought', ed. B.V. Bowden, London 1953. Published by Pitman Publishing. TS with MS corrections. R.S. 1953b
    - Victor L. Allis. "Searching for Solutions in Games and Artificial Intelligence" (1994).
    - SSDF. Swedish Chess Computer Association.
    - Klint Finley. "Did a Computer Bug Help Deep Blue Beat Kasparov". Wired.com.
May 7th :
- Andrew Sawchuk
  - Topic: AI in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  - Andrew's presentation slides
  - Other useful materials and links:
- Alex Misstear
  - Topic: Spam Filtering
  - Alex's presentation slides
  - Other useful materials and links:
May 14th :
- Jacqui DeLorie
  - Topic: Never-Ending Language Learning (NELL)
  - Jacqui's presentation slides
  - Other useful materials and links:
- Eddie Lai
May 21st:
- Dan Li
  - Topic: Artificial Intelligence in Real Time Strategy Games
  - Dan's presentation slides
  - Other useful materials and links:
- Mike Sanchez
  - Topic: IBM DeepQA
  - Mike's presentation slides
  - Other useful materials and links:
- Adam Brockett
  - Topic: SLAM: Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
  - Adam's presentation slides
  - Other useful materials and links:
    - Sebastian Thrun's "Probabilistic Robotics" book. See slides.
    - Set of videos showing examples of naive map making vs. SLAM techniques.