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COMPSCI 557: ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE
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Spring 2001
M W 5:30pm - 6:45pm
MG 139
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Amit Jain
Textbook
Artificial Intelligence by Patrick Henry Winston. (3rd Edition,
Addison Wesley, 1993)
Topics and Notes
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Background: Chapter 1 (The Intelligent Computer), Chapter
2 (Semantic Nets and Description Matching)
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Search: Chapter 4 (Nets and Basic Search), Chapter 5 (Nets
and Optimal Search), Chapter 6 (Trees and Adversarial Search).
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Natural Language Understanding: Chapter 28 (Expressing Language
Constraints), Chapter 29 (Responding to Questions and Commands).
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Rules and Rule Chaining. Chapter 7 and 8.
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Genetic Algorithms: Chapter 25 (Learning by Simulating Evolution)
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Neural Networks: Chapters 22, 23, and 24.
Grading
Programming Projects: 600 points (60%).
Class Presentation: 100 points (10%).
Midterm Examination (4th April,
5:30pm-6:45pm): 150 points (15%).
Final Examination (7th May, 5:40-7:40pm) 150 points (15%).
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Homeworks
Programming Assignments
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Program 1 (due date 2/7/01 by 9pm) (30 points)
(The
original article on ELIZA. A sample response
file: response.data. Corresponding
keywords.
A skeleton program in Java can be found on onyx in the directory ~amit/cs557/lab)
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Program 2 (Tournament
date 3/21/2001, final due date 4/2/2001) (100 points). (Results: Postscript, PDF)
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Program 3 (due date:
4/17/2001 by 9pm) (60 points)
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Program 4 (Postscript, PDF) (due date:
4/30/2001 by class time) (50 points)
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