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

Graduate survey course in Artificial Intelligence. Types of intelligence, knowledge representation, cognitive models. Goal-based systems, heuristic search, games, deductive systems and expert systems. Computer vision, speech recognition, language understanding, robotics, learning, mental development.

Syllabus updated Sept. 22, 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-Development.pdf	9/27/10

Homeworks

(for CSE841 students only)

Homework1: Solution1	Due: Oct. 3 Sunday
Homework2: Solution2	Due: Oct. 17 Sunday
Homework3: Solution3	Due: Oct. 31 Sunday
Homework4: Solution4	Due: Nov. 14 Sunday
Homework5: Solution5	Due: Dec. 12 Sunday

Class Notes (for CSE841 students only)

Ch 1

Ch 2

Ch 3

Ch 4

Ch 5

Ch 6

Ch 7

mock-mid

Ch 8

Ch 9

Ch 10

Ch 11

Ch 12

Ch 13

Reading Assignments (Critiques due on Wednesdays before class)

Week	Topics	Text Reference	Reading
Week 1	Administrivia, intro to AI	Ch. 1	Computing Machinery and Intelligence Critique due Wed. 09/08/10
Week 2	Agents	Ch. 1	Creativity and Unpredictability
Week 3	Search and match	Ch. 2	The ChineseRoom Argument Crititue due Wed. 09/22/10
Week 4	Brain-like search	Ch. 3	Little Thoughts of Thinking Machines
Week 5	Features and representation	Ch. 4	Autonomous Mental Development by Robots and Animals Crititue due Wed. 10/26/10
Week 6	Managing uncertainty	Ch. 5	Learning to extract symbolic knowledge from the world wide web
Week 7	Dealing with space: attention	Ch. 6	IBM's Deep Blue Grandmaster chips Critique due Wed. 10/20/10
Week 8	Mid-Term Exam and Project example	-
Week 9	Brain-mind architecture	Ch. 7	Elephants don't Play Chess. Critique due Wed. 11/03/10
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	Reinforcement Learning: A surveyl. Critique due Wed. 11/17/10
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. 12/01/10
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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