| Text: | Artificial Intelligence,
A Knowledge-Based Approach
Morris W. Firebaugh Boyd & Fraser |
| Topics: | The course will explore
the question of the possibility of machine intelligence. We will look at
what it means for a machine to exhibit intelligence. We will talk about
the Turing test and Church's thesis. The course will look at LISP and Prolog,
two programming languages used in AI research. Topics to be covered will
include basic search techniques, game playing, automated reasoning, problem
solving, expert systems, machine learning, and neural networks.
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| Grade: | The grade will be computed
as follows: two exams worth 20% each, a final exam worth 30%, and several
programming assignments and a large project worth 30%.
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| Office hours: | Monday and Wednesday, 1:00 - 2:30; and by appointment |