COSC 387: Artificial Intelligence

Class Time:	TR 4:15–5:30 PM
Classroom:	WGR 206
Instructor:	Mark Maloof
Office:	325 St. Mary's Hall
Mailbox:	329A St. Mary's Hall
Office Hours:	None for 24–25 academic year. (or by appointment)

Syllabus

• Course Description
• Schedule
• Course Policies

Assignments and Grading

• Programming Projects (50%)
  • Project 1 (assigned Wed, 9/8, due Wed, 9/29) 4 points
  • Project 2 (assigned Tue, 9/28, due Tue, 10/12) 7 points
  • Project 3 (assigned Tue, 10/12, due Tue, 11/9) 13 points
  • Project 4 (assigned Tue, 11/9, due Wed, 11/24) 13 points
  • Project 5 (assigned Wed, 11/24, due Thu, 12/9) 13 points
• Midterm Exam, distributed Thu, 10/14, due Thu, 10/21 (20%)
• Final Exam, distributed Thu, 12/9, due Fri, 12/17 (30%)
• Homework (optional)
• Additional Reading:
  1. Thrun, et al., Stanley: The Robot that Won the DARPA Grand Challenge (read immediately)
  2. Turing, A., Computing machinery and intelligence (read by midterm).
  3. Newell, A., and Simon, H.A., Computer science as empirical enquiry (read by midterm).
  4. Searle, J., Minds, brains, and programs (read by last class).
  5. Dreyfus, H.L., and Dreyfus, S.E., Making a mind versus modeling the brain (read by last class).

Grading

(defun grading (grade)
  (cond
    ((>= grade 93) 'A)
    ((>= grade 90) 'A-)
    ((>= grade 87) 'B+)
    ((>= grade 83) 'B)
    ((>= grade 80) 'B-)
    ((>= grade 77) 'C+)
    ((>= grade 73) 'C)
    ((>= grade 70) 'C-)
    ((>= grade 67) 'D+)
    ((>= grade 63) 'D)
    (t 'F)))

Resources

• Project grading sheet

• CMU AI Repository
• UCLA AI FAQ

• ACM Guide
• ACM Digital Library
• IEEE Digital Library
• Google Scholar
• CiteSeer

• GNU CLISP, installed on seva; also for Windows, Mac, Linux, and others
• CMU Common Lisp. Mainly for Linux and other Unix variants.
• Steel Bank Common Lisp (GCL).
• GNU Common Lisp (GCL).

• Jabberwocky, an multi-platform IDE for clisp, gcl, and cmucl.

• Common Lisp, the Language, 2nd Edition, by Steele (on-line version).
• Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation, by Touretzky (on-line version).
• An Introduction and Tutorial for Common Lisp
• The Common Lisp Cookbook

• vi In formation Links
• Lemmy, the UNIX vi editor for Windows
• More vi clones for Windows

• JavaBayes: a Java applet for Bayesian inference networks

Marginally Interesting Links

• Computer Language Benchmarks Game
• Now Blooming: Digital Models
• AI Researchers think 'Rascals' can pass Turing test
• Machines 'to match man by 2029'

• Comic: Lisp Cycles, compliments of Mitch Beard
• Comic: Lisp, compliments of Mitch Beard
• Video: Free Software Song
• Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years, by Peter Norvig
• Python for Lisp Programmers, by Peter Norvig

• Computer Science Education: Where Are the Software Engineers of Tomorrow?, by Dewar and Schonberg
• The Association of Lisp Users
• How to Become a Hacker
• Another view of Lisp, not that I agree with everything he says.
• The 18 Mistakes that Kill Startups, by Paul Graham
• Hackers and Painters, by Paul Graham
• In the Beginning was the Command Line, by Neal Stephenson
• Peet's
• Fast Lane
• Red Bull

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