CS 495   Special Topics:  ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Fall 1999,  Instructor: Jeffrey Horn
 

ANNOUNCEMENTS (Friday, Nov. 19, 1999)

General Announcements (for all students)

Added Homework 3, the S-R vehicle homework FINALLY!  Due Wed. after break.  Pencil and paper so try to take it with you and work on it over break, but it is all though exercises.

Friday (Nov. 12) class will be in Lecture Hall C (in other words, attend the guest lecture by Dr. Monticino, on "Optimal Search" at 3:00).  This talk sounds relevent to our work in class.  So be there and take notes!  Quiz on Monday!  (see the general announcements link above for more info on speaker)

• Robot Movie in class on Wed., Nov. 10 at 3:00pm in classroom. Don't miss this one!  (quiz on Monday)
• HOMEWORK 2, due next Monday (Oct. 25), see below
• HOMEWORK 1 DUE next Wednesday!! (unless you hand in Part 1, below, and get an automatic extension!)
• Come to the MAA Zonal Meeting, right here in West Science, this Fri. and Sat.  See here for info.
• Update to HW1:  The search engine in Java is working.  I am sure of it (Calder!).  Check it ou below.  Let's discuss in class today.
• Homework 0:  See below!  Due immediately!!
• Homework 1:

• Original Course Announcement
• Syllabus

POSSIBLE TOPICS

• AI as SEARCH
• Planning
• State Space Search
• Heuristic Search
• Adverserial Search
• STIMULUS-RESPONSE AGENTS
• Look-up tables
• Braitenberg Vehicles
• Classifier Systems
• Prisoners' Dilemma
• NEURAL NETWORKS
• ARTIFICIAL LIFE and EVOLUTION
• ROBOTICS
• AUTOMATED LOGIC (HAL)
• Knowledge bases and deduction engines
• Why HAL went insane:  brittleness
• Fuzzy logic, an answer to brittleness
• MACHINE LEARNING

• HOMEWORK  0:  Getting in touch
1. Due Wednesday, Sept. 15.
2. Subscribe to the Genetic Programming mailing list and read any interesting messages.  Instructions.
• (I encourage you to subscribe to any of the other AI lists on that page, but GP is the only one mandated!)
3. Send me your email address, to "jhorn@nmu.edu"
• HOMEWORK 1 (project 1):  Automated Planning as State Space Search (here)  (due end of Ocotober!  Nov. 1, which is a Monday)
• HOMEWORK 2:  Uniformed State Space Search (here) (due Monday, Oct. 25)
• HOMEWORK 3:  Stimulus-Response Agents  (here) (due Wednesday, Dec. 1)
• HOMEWORK 4:  (project 2):  Robots

GRADING

• Grading will be as follows
• (10%)      Homework 1, part 1 (the written part of your state space search)
• (15%)      Homework 2
• (15%)      Homework 3
• (30%)      BIG Project, choose:
• HW 4 (robot), or
• part 2 of HW 1 (state space search PROGRAM), or
• something you proposed and I agreed to!
• (10%)      Demonstration of your BIG project, to be held in lieu of our final exam
• (Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2pm - 3:50 in WS  ???)
• (10%)       LITTLE Project  (same choices as for big project, but of course, a different choice!)
• (10%)       Instructor's discretion

FINAL

• There will be no final exam in this class. Instead, everyone MUST complete a final project, the topic of which is to be agreed upon by the halfway point of the semester, whenever that is!
• FINAL DEMONSTRATION