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Computer Science 550 - Artificial Intelligence

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Essay Paper Info

CS 550 Artificial Intelligence I
Paper Information
Read 3 articles on a topic
Write 6-8 page essay
- Two-thirds summarize articles
- One-third discuss and contextualize against current research and own ideas
We will discuss in class how to select your source material, which you MUST have approved by the instructor to receive a grade on your paper.

Paper details and how it will be graded

  • typed
  • single-space
  • 1" margins
  • bibliography page (Not included in page count)
Approximate point breakdown
Quality and effort - 10%
Content - 40%
  1. paper responds to assignment
  2. focuses on central idea or thesis
  3. thesis supported by evidence (material chosen for review)
Organization - 25%
  1. paper has an introduction, development, and conclusion
  2. paragraphs coherent and focused on a single idea
  3. paragraphs relate to central thesis
  4. transitions between paragraphs support the reader in following the thesis
Mechanics - 15%
  1. sentence structure
  2. word usage
  3. punctuation
  4. spelling
Style - 10%
  1. sentences varied and not awkward
  2. language uninflated
  3. language appropriate for formal paper (no slang, contractions, etc.)

Example Journals Used

  • Analysis and comparisons of new AI-related products (try PC AI magazine)
  • Bayesian networks
  • Nonmonotic logics or temporal logics
  • Schank's Scripts
  • John Searle's Chinese Room argument
  • Natural language processing
  • Expert systems
  • Gaming and game theory
  • AI in education
  • AI Assisted Composition and Publishing (see Microsoft)
  • The Church-Turing Thesis
  • Prolog as an AI Language
  • Robotics
  • Computational linguistics
  • Marvin Minsky
  • Herbert Simon
  • Complex Adaptive Systems
  • Noam Chomsky
  • Alan Turing
  • Kurt Godel and the Incompleteness Theorem
  • David Hilbert's "Program"
  • The Turing Test
  • Intelligence Measures (IQ tests, Iowa tests, etc.)
  • Cognitive Architectures
  • Genetic algorithms on specific problems
  • Neural networks on specific problems
  • Descartes and the mind-body problem
  • Wittgenstein's philosophy
  • AM/Eurisko by D. Lenat
  • The Copycat family of architectures
  • Analogy-making programs
  • Artificial Life programs

..and the list goes on... (and may be updated)

Week 1

Mon - Aug 31

Topic: Policies, administration & overview. Playing Mancala
Read: Preface, Ch. 1 LISP-optional Wilensky
Event: Mancala Project Exercise Set 1

Wed - Sep 2

Topic: Intelligence measures and defining features. Physical Symbol System Hypothesis. Brittleness and Turing test
Read: Ch. 1 LISP-optional Wilensky
Event: Exercise Set 2


Week 2

Mon - Sep 7

LABOR DAY

Wed - Sep 9

Topic: Chinese room thought experiment. History of AI and application areas. Representational techniques and languages
Read: Ch. 2 LISP-optional Wilensky
Event: N/A

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Week 3

Mon - Sep 14

Topic: Introduction to LISP
Read: LISP Links
Event: Exercise 3

Wed - Sep 16

Topic: Propositional and predicate logic as representation language + Inference rules and algorithms
Read: Ch 2, 3
Event: Mancala project: definition and template posted


Week 4

Mon - Sep 21

Topic: Unification algorithm and example
Read: Ch 3
Event:

Wed - Sep 23

Topic: Graph theory & state space search
Read: Ch 3
Event:


Week 5

Mon - Sep 28

Topic: Data-driven and goal-driven reasoning (Forward and backward chaining)
Read: Ch 3
Event:

Wed - Sep 30

Topic: Backtracking (BFS & DFS)
Read: Ch 3
Event: Exercise 4


Week 6

Mon - Oct 5

Topic: Heuristic search (best-first) + The nature of heuristics
Read: Ch 4
Event:

Wed - Oct 7

Topic: Evaluating heuristics + The A* algorithm + Trade-offs and beam search
Read: Ch 4
Event: Mancala Project: spread-stones function DUE by email by midnight, Sun. 10/11


Week 7

Mon - Oct 12

Topic: Game-playing techniques + Minimax and more discussion of heuristics
Read: Ch 4
Event: Mancala Project: Pruning search code

Wed - Oct 14

Topic: Alpha-beta pruning search
Read: Ch 4
Event:


Week 8

Mon - Oct 19

Topic: Exam Review
Read: Exam Review Posted
Event:

Wed - Oct 21

Topic: EXAM
Read:
Event:


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