CSCE476/876, Spring 2000: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Prereq: CSCE310,
Data structures and algorithms.
Course description: Introduction to the basic principles, techniques
and tools now being used in the area of machine intelligence. Lecture
topics will include problem solving, knowledge representation and reasoning,
search, expert systems, and planning and action. More advanced topics
may be included depending on class interests and performance. Programming
will be done in Common Lisp using Allegro Common Lisp (ACL) and its programming
environment.
Time:
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, from 12:30 p.m. to 1:20 p.m.
Place:
Room 111, Ferguson Hall
Instructor: Prof. Berthe Y. Choueiry
Room 104, Ferguson Hall,
choueiry AT cse DOT unl Dot edu, tel: (402)472-5444.
Office hours: Mon/Fri from 1:20 p.m. to 2:20 p.m., or by appointment.
TA:
M. Parwezpasha KOTHWAALSHEIK (Parwez).
email: parwez@cse.unl.edu
Office hours in Room 16 or Room 17, Ferguson: Mon/Wed 0930
a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Office location: Building 501, Room 6.5.
the
page will be regularly updated. Check it out often for reference to required
and recommended reading material, homework texts, and announcements.
Required textbooks (check the bookstore):
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Artificial Intelligence, A Modern Approach (AIMA), by Russell & Norvig.
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LISP, 3rd Edition (LWH). Winston & Horn.
Protocol of the course:
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Lectures by instructor, 3 times per week.
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The workload will consist of:
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required and recommended reading material (as indicated in
the Class schedule): AIMA (textbook)
will be followed in a more or less linear fashion. The content of
the course will be dynamically adapted to students interests and performance.
Chapters to be studied may encompass: Chapter: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7,
9, 11, 13, 14, 15, 18, 19, 22, 24, 26, and/or 27. Sections
from these and other chapters may be dropped or added during the course.
Regularly check the class schedule.
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glossary: Students will be have to build an incremental
and alphabetically sorted glossary of important terms. Terms to be
included are: (1) the ones mentioned in AIMA in the margin of the required
reading material, (2) the ones highlighted anytime during a lecture,
and (3) the ones sent by email. A glossary entry can be filled with:
(1) its definition in AIMA, (2) its definition from another AI textbook
or dictionary, or (3) the student's own interpretation. All terms
encountered during a week are due as a weekly glossary the following Monday.
At the end of the course, the full alphabetically sorted glossary is due.
(Hint: choose a text editor that can sort entries alphabetically.)
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programming, theoretical, and library-search assignments:
Programming assignments must be done in Common Lisp (advice: use
Allegro Common Lisp on Linux) and turned in before 6 p.m.
on the due date. Usually, homeworks must be turned in using the UNIX
handin
program on cse.unl.edu. Pen-and-paper
assignments must be given to the instructor right before
the lecture on the due date. Late homeworks are subject to a 20% deduction
per day (including week-ends), any second after the due date counts as
an entire day. Students are kindly requested to indicate how much
time they approximately spend on each exercise; this information
will be aggregated and used for planning purposes, it does not affect grading
and the evaluation of individuals.
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surprise quizzes: There will be a surprise quiz every 2 to
4 weeks, depending on students performance. Quizzes will address
all
material
covered during the lectures and/or by the required reading.
No books or personal notes are allowed during the quizzes, unless explicitly
specified. Quizzes cannot be made up.
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tests: There will be a pre-test, a mid-term and a final.
Tests cannot be taken in advance. Tests cannot be made up except
by instructor's permission.
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It is the student's responsibility to ensure an account on the CSE PCs
from which Linux (+ xemacs, ACL) can be executed.
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Discussions among students, instructor, and TA are encouraged. Homeworks
however are a strictly individual activity: no sharing is permitted
(unless when specified by instructor). Unethical behavior will be
heavily sanctioned (e.g., a null grade on the task).
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Always acknowledge any help received from other individuals.
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Always fully reference material used (e.g., encyclopedia,
book, paper, journal, web site).
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Attendance is not mandatory. But students are responsible for the
material covered and announcements (such as lists of terms for glossary)
made during the class. Also, there will be surprise quizzes.
Grading policy:
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The plan is to partition the grades as follows:
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Pre-test: 5%
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Glossary: 10%
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(Surprise) quizzes: 20%
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Homeworks: 25% (Programming assignments will be graded as follows: 50%
for correctness, 25% for programming style, and 25% for documentation.)
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Tests (mid-term, final): 40% (20% each)
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A bonus will be awarded to students who attend all lectures.
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Students who perform exceptionally well during the semester may be exempted
from the final exam.
Grade conversion:
>94% |
A+ |
90--94 |
A |
85--89 |
B+ |
80--84 |
B |
70--79 |
C+ |
60--69 |
C |
55--59 |
D+ |
50--54 |
D |
<=50 |
F |
Books on reserve at the Love Library (LL):
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Foundations
of Constraint Satisfaction by Edward Tsang.
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A
mathematical introduction to logic by Enderton, Herbert B, CALL NO.
QA9 .E54 1972.
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Artificial Intelligence, A Modern Approach (AIMA), by Russell &
Norvig.
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Artificial Intelligence, 3rd Edition. Winston. ISBN 0201533774.
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LISP, 3rd Edition. Winston & Horn. ISBN 0-201-08319-1.
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Essentials of Artificial Intelligence. Ginsberg. ISBN 1-558s60-22-6.
Call number Q335.G55 1993.
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Artificial Intelligence: A New Synthesis. Nilsson. ISBN 1-55860-535-5.
Call number Q335.N496 1998.
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Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming. Norvig. ISBN 1-55860-191-0.
Call number QA76.6.N687.
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ANSI Common Lisp, Paul Graham. ISBN 0-13-370875-6.
Other references:
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Online
Tutorial to Common Lisp , Adaptive Remote Tutor.
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Franz
Inc. by David Cooper Jr.: Understanding Common
Lisp (Basic Lisp techniques, pdf document).
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From
Jason Steele (jsteele@cse): A
few good examples on how to create and manipulate classes
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The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences, call number BF311 .M556
1999, LIB USE ONLY.
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Common
Lisp, The Language, Second Edition. Guy L. Steele, Jr. Digital Press,
ISBN: 1555580416 (will be made available soon at LL.)
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Encyclopedia of artificial intelligence, 1992, SECOND EDITION,call number
Q335 .E53, LIB USE ONLY.
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LISP
FAQ by Mark Kantrowitz.
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Section on "General AI Information" in "AI
Resources."
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Web search engines (Altavista, etc.)
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