Course Description - CS540
Fall 1999
The review form should be available from about noon on Monday, 20 December until
noon, 24 December.
Instructor: Dean Allemang
Office Hours: Fridays, 10:00-11:00, MCS 266
email: allemang@cs.bu.edu
Teaching Assistant: Rob Pitts
Office Hours: Tuesdays 2:30-3:30, Thursday 2:15-3:00 in MCS 266
Time and Place:
M W F 9:00 am, room CAS 313
Midterm Exam on Friday, October 22, 1999.
Final Exam on Monday, December 20, 1999.
Textbook:
Artificial Intelligence, Theory and Practice, by Dean, Allen and
Aloimonos (Addison Wesley, 1995) is required. I may occasionally hand out
notes on specific topics, such as knowledge acquisition and expert systems
which are not covered in depth in the text.
Supplementary texts:
General AI texts:
Artificial Intelligence, by Elaine Rich and Kevin Knight
(McGraw-Hill, 1991)
Artificial Intelligence: A modern Approach, by Russell and Norvig
(Prentice Hall, 1995)
For Learning LISP:
The ANSI Common Lisp, by Paul Graham (Prentice Hall, 1996)
Philosophy of AI:
Abductive Inference: computation, philosophy, technology, by
John Josephson and Susan Josephson (Cambridge University Press, 1994)
Computer Power and Human Reason : From Judgement to Calculation,
by Joseph Weizenbaum (W H Freeman & Co, 1976)
Homework Assignments
All assignments are due at 5:00 p.m. on the day indicated.
Assignment
One (due 13 September, 1999)
Assignment
Two (due 27 September, 1999)
Error in
Assignment 2! Please read!
Example file for
Assignment 2.
Assignment
Three (due 6 October, 1999)
Assignment
Three data
Alternatve Assignment
Three (due 8 October, 1999)
Assignment
Four (checkers) (due 25 October, 1999)
Assignment
Four (Go) (due 25 October, 1999)
Assignment Five (due 10 November, 1999)
Link to Repetory Grid software
Assignment
Six (due 24 November, 1999)
Assignment
Seven (due 13 December, 1999)
Lectures and Notes
Lecture 1
(pdf)
Lecture 2
(plain text)
Lecture 3
(plain text)
Lecture 4
(plain text)
Lecture 5
(pdf)
Lecture 6
(part 1)(pdf)
Lecture 6 (part2)
(pdf)
Lecture 6 (part3)
(plain text)
Lecture (PAC
learning, courtesy of Bob Aiken, Temple University (pdf)
Lecture 7 (pdf)
Lecture 8
(part 1)
(pdf)
Lecture 8
(part 2)
(plain text)
Exams
Topics covered by
midterm exam (plain text)
Topics covered by
final exam (plain text)
Final exam
sample questions (plain text)
Homework 7 answer