CSE 841 - Artificial Intelligence

Fall 2010

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Mondays and Wednesdays: 10:20 a.m. - 11:40 a.m., 1225 Engineering Building (13,E )

Description

This is a graduate course in Artificial Intelligence. Types of intelligence; learning; development; brain-mind architecture; symboloc representation; emergenet representation; knowledge representation; cognitive models; goal-based systems; heuristic search; games as environments; deductive systems and expert systems; vision; audition; touch; language understanding; robotics.

Syllabus updated Oct. 5, 2010

Instructor Information

Instructor: Dr. Juyang (John) Weng

Office: 3144 Engineering Building

Office Hours: Tue, Thu: 4:300 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. or by appointment.

Phone: 353-4388

Email: weng@cse.msu.edu.

Note: Emails and telephone calls are not good for asking techncial questions.

Text (for CSE841 students only)	Updated
Ch01.pdf	9/10/10
Ch01-02.pdf	9/20/10
Ch01-03.pdf	10/2/10
Ch01-04.pdf	10/25/10
Ch01-05.pdf	11/03/10
Ch01-06.pdf	11/22/10
Ch01-07.pdf	11/29/10
Ch01-08.pdf	12/05/10
Ch01-09.pdf	12/07/10
Ch01-10.pdf	12/08/10

Homeworks

(for CSE841 students only)

Homework1: Solution1	Due: Oct. 3 Sunday
Homework2: Solution2	Due: Oct. 17 Sunday
Homework3: Solution3	Due: Nov. 7 Sunday
Homework4: Solution4	Due: Nov. 21 Sunday
Homework5:	Due: Dec. 12 Sunday

Class Notes (for CSE841 students only)

Reading Assignments (Critiques due on Wednesdays before class)

Week	Topics	Text Reference	Reading
Week 1	Administrivia, intro to AI	Ch. 1
Week 2	Agents	Ch. 1	Computing Machinery and Intelligence Critique due Wed. 09/08/10
Week 3	Search and match	Ch. 2	Creativity and Unpredictability
Week 4	Brain-like search	Ch. 3	The ChineseRoom Argument Crititue due Wed. 09/22/10
Week 5	Features and representation	Ch. 4	Little Thoughts of Thinking Machines
Week 6	Managing uncertainty	Ch. 5	Autonomous Mental Development by Robots and Animals Crititue due Wed. 10/06/10
Week 7	Dealing with space: attention	Ch. 6	Learning to extract symbolic knowledge from the world wide web
Week 8	Mid-Term Exam and Project example	-
Week 9	Brain-mind architecture	Ch. 7	Elephants don't Play Chess. Critique due Wed. 10/27/10
Week 10	Dealing with time: spatiotemporal events	Ch. 8	Speech Recognition with Dynamic Bayesian Nets.
Week 11	Semi-supervised learning and self-learning	Ch. 9	Are Natural Languages Symbolic in the Brain? Critique due Wed. 11/10/10
Week 12	Reinforcement learning and modulation	Ch. 10	The Ecology of Echo
Week 13	Perception, cognition and actions	Ch. 11	Autonomous Driving in Traf!c: Boss and the Urban Challenge Critique due Wed. 11/24/10
Week 14	Languages, communication and planning	Ch. 12	High-level Perception, Representation and Analogy, A Critique of Artificial Intelligence Methodology.
Week 15	Autonomous thinking and creativity	Ch. 13

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