CSE 471/598, CBS 598 Spring 2005

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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 - 77981 CSE598 - 80843 CBS598 - 52558

Class Room and Hours:

• BYAC210, TTh, 1:40 - 2:55pm

Office Hours:     TTH 3:00 - 4:00pm , BYE 566     Other times: by appointment only

TA and His Office Hours:     Mr. Surendra Singhi, surendra@asu.edu     MW 12:15 – 1:15pm, BYE 214

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Text Book:  Artificial Intelligence - A Modern Approach by Russel and Norvig

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 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
• Learning from Observation, Knowledge in Learning
• Planning, Planning and Acting
• Uncertainty, 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: 12/14/04
Last updated: 1/26/05

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Academic Integrity and Student Conduct

Start-of-semester CSE-course survey

  Please complete the above on-line survey for the course as soon as possible

Counselor Training Center - The First Step to Well Being

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If you have comments or suggestions, email me at hliu@asu.edu