CSE 471/598, CBS 598 Spring 2008

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Course Description: https://www.asu.edu/go/classsearch/

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

Line numbers: CSE471 - 25080 CSE598 - 32037 CBS598 - 14348

Class Room and Hours:

• BYAC150, MW 04:40 – 05:55pm

Office Hours:     MW 1:30 - 2:30pm, BYE 566     Other times: by appointment only

TA and His Office Hours:     Mr. Shankara Subramanya, Shankara.Subramanya at asu.edu     TTh: 3:00 - 4:00pm or by appointment, BYE 415

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

We will consider options of programming languages for projects. A good reference book on Lisp: ANSI Common Lisp by Paul Graham, Prentice Hall

Reading Assignments, Homework, Projects, and Mid-Term Exams (Details at myASU):

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

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Slides (tentative, under modification):

• Introduction, Intelligent Agents, Problem Solving, Informed Search, Adversarial 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 (an 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: 12/30/07
Last updated: 1/09/08

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