CSCI 4150: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Fall 2002

Announcements

Course information

whuang@cs.rpi.edu


Teaching staff

Prof. Wes Huang
email: whuang@cs.rpi.edu
Office: Amos Eaton 111
Office hours: Wednesdays 4:30-6:00, Thursdays 2:00-4:00, or by appointment

TA: Kris Beevers
email: beevek@cs.rpi.edu
Office: Lally 009
Office hours: Mondays 3:00-5:00, Wednesdays 12:00-2:00, or by appointment

TA: Dave Siebecker
email: siebed@cs.rpi.edu
Office: Lally 003A
Office hours: Mondays 2:00-4:00, Thursdays 9:00-11:00, or by appointment

Student Class Representatives

The following students volunteered to be class representatives:

I will be meeting with them every other week. The purpose of these meeting is to provide me with feedback on the course. If you wish to provide feedback anonymously, you can do so through the class representatives.

Course description

This course is an introduction to the theory and practice of Artificial Intelligence. We will be studying techniques for solving problems and making intelligent decisions. The first half of the course will focus on the foundations of Artificial Intelligence: search and logic. The second half of the course will focus on machine learning techniques, including decision trees, reinforcement learning, and neural networks. Knowledge representation and probability will be addressed in conjunction with several topics during the semester.

Students will implement many of the algorithms we cover in programming assignments. The implementation language for these assignments will be Scheme (a dialect of LISP) which will be taught in the first two weeks of the course.

Prerequisite: CSCI 2300 Data Structures and Algorithms. Knowledge of Scheme or LISP is not a prerequisite.

Nuts & bolts

Handouts

You can get hardcopies of handouts from Shannon Bornt in Amos Eaton 132.

Online course material

Assignment web pages

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