CSE 471/598, CBS 598 Spring 2006

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Course Description: http://www.asu.edu/aad/catalogs/courses

Prerequisites: CSE 240 Intro to Programming Languages CSE 310 Data Structures and Algorithms

Line numbers: CSE471 - 51181 CSE598 - 03873 CBS598 - 75383

Class Room and Hours:

• BYAC270, MW 04:40 – 05:55pm

Office Hours:     MW 4:00 - 4:30pm and 6:00 – 6:30pm , BYE 566     Other times: by appointment only

TA and His Office Hours:     Mr. Trevor Lei Tang, l.tang@asu.edu    T: 4:30 – 5:30pm; Th 3:10 – 4:10pm or by appointment, BYE 214

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Text Book:  Artificial Intelligence - A Modern Approach by Russel and Norvig, 2^nd Edition

A good reference book on Lisp: ANSI Common Lisp by Paul Graham, Prentice Hall

Reading Assignments, Homework,  Projects, and Mid-Term Exams (to be updated):

• 4-5 homeworks (20%)
• 2-3 projects (30%)
• 2 exams (25%, 25%)
• Class participation, Lisp assignment, Quizzes (extra points, 10%)

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Slides (under regular modification and improvement):

• Introduction, Intelligent Agents, Problem Solving, Informed Search
• Logical Agents & First-Order Logic, Inference, Uncertainty
• Learning from Observation, Statistical Learning Methods, Knowledge in Learning
• Planning, Planning and Acting
• Probabilistic Reasoning, Making Decision

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Useful Links

• The text book's home page
• AI Alert from AAAI,
• ACM TechNews Onlin, Current Issue, Game Over
• What is AI by John McCarthy
• Interactive session on Lisp and others by Surendra Singhi 3/29/05
• Some good links of Lisp Tutorials, and how to run Lisp on general.asu.edu
• Free Lisp Software, and etc.
• A brief refresher for Lisp and a sample file
• Some interesting links suggested by students 
• recommended by Sheldon Chapman  - Read and be fascinated with your own mind. Something i thought everyone might find interesting:

"Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe."

o Torrey Stevens - AI mailing list
o Andrew Lasak - Robot Vacuum Cleaners
o Aleks Yasnogorodskiy - Deep Fritz (Final Score: 4-4)
o Daniele "Esaurito" Pagano - Performance of Lisp
o Daniele "Esaurito" Pagano - SHRDLU resurrection (a NLP program of the block world) 
o recommended by a friend - The Evolution of a Programmer

• Ryan Weddle - The two towers -AI in Animation
• Danele pagano  - AI Light Bulb

Created: 12/31/05
Last updated:

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