CSC 8520 Artificial Intelligence
Fall 2006

Class Meeting: W 6:15 pm - 9:00 pm (Mendel G92)
Office Hours: by appt.

Course Description: Welcome to CSC 8520! This course is a graduate-level introduction to the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Within the organizing concept of "intelligent agent" we will survey basic approaches and techniques used in modern AI applications and research: search, knowledge representation, planning, reasoning under uncertainty, machine learning, and robotics.

Course Objectives: After taking this course, you should expect to be able to:

• encounter a problem, reformulate it in terms of "search," select an appropriate search algorithm, and solve the problem;
• understand how to represent various types of knowledge symbolically; understand several methods for reasoning logically with these representations.
• construct basic programs that plan, or search for a sequence of actions appropriate to a situation before taking any action.
• understand techniques for reasoning about uncertain information.
• write intermediate difficulty AI programs (e.g. Texas Hold'em agent)
• read AI research papers with some skill
• feel comfortable writing and debugging LISP programs