CSCI323/MCS9323: Artificial Intelligence

Spring Session, 2008

School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Wollongong

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ANNOUNCEMENT: Extra help session on Monday Sept 8^th, 10:30 – 11am Bldg 3 Room 126. It is not obligatory to attend, but come prepared with questions if you have any…

Week 1: Guest lecturers provided introductions to agents and basic search algorithms.

Week 2, Lecture 1: We discussed some course admin, then discussed AI history.  This is the story of the Dartmouth Conference where it all started. Some of the original AI pioneers:  Marvin Minsky, John McCarthy ,  Claude Shannon ,  Herbert Simon ,  Alan Newell .

Week 2, Lecture 2: We discussed other milestones in AI history, including Samuel's checkers playing program ,  early expert systems (such as  DENDRAL, MYCIN, XCON as well as  PROSPECTOR ), the Japanese  Fifth Generation Computing Project. We also discussed some easy propositional logic.

Week 3, Lecture 1: We discussed more propositional logic, the clausal form and connections with Prolog. We also talked a bit more about the history of AI, specially the NASA RAX, the world checkers champion CHINOOK, the AI chess player DEEP BLUE and also a bit of WWW history, specially in relation to Tim Berners-Lee, Marc Andreesen, Mosaic and Netscape.

Week 3, Lecture 2: We discussed first-order logic.

Week 4, Lecture 1: We discussed normal forms for knowledge representation, and also some of the issues arising from representing and reasoning with incomplete information.