CIS 479 Artificial Intelligence
Spring 2001

Classroom: 144 SB
Meeting Time: 4:00-7:00 TTh

Bruce R. Maxim, PhD
Associate Professor
Office: 120 ELB
Phone: 436-9155
Office Hours: 12:30 M & 3:30 TTh
e-mail: bmaxim@umich.edu

This course is intended to provide an overview of the problems and methods studied in the field of artificial intelligence. The focus of the course will be on the study of methods of knowledge representation, data structures, and algorithms useful to the development of intelligent programs. The course will also include discussion of important applications of AI methodology.

Your scores on the projects and will determine your grade in this course. There will be 4 projects using several AI tools (including LISP) not all of which will require the development of complete programs from scratch. You will be expected to do term project and to present your term project orally. The smaller projects will count for 50% of your grade, the oral presentation 10%, and the term project 40%. Late work will be penalized, as will evidence of cheating in any form.
 

Texts: Artificial Intelligence (3rd Edition) by G. Luger and
       W. Stubblefield, Addison-Wesley, 1997. (Required)

       Lisp (3rd Edition) by P. Winston and B. Horn, Addison-
       Wesley, 1989. (Required)

URL: www.engin.umd.umich.edu/CIS/course.des/cis479.html
 
 
Date
Topic
Reading
05-08
 Lisp: Primitives, Predicates, and
Conditionals
L1,W1-W4
05-10
 Lisp: Iteration, I/O, Recursion,
Data Structures, and Macros
W5-W12,W17
05-15
 Intelligent Search
L3,W19
05-17
 Game Playing

Project 1 due
L4
05-22
 Production Systems and Matching

Expert Systems
L5,W24

L6,W25-W27
05-24
 Class starts at 5:30 (Exam CIS 479)

Uncertainty
L7
05-29
 Probabilistic Reasoning

Project 2 due
L7
05-31
 Knowledge Engineering Tools

Predicate Logic
Notes

L2,L9
06-05
 Knowledge Representation
L8
06-07
 Planning

Intelligent Agents and SOAR

Project 3 due
L12

L16
06-12
 Class starts at 5:30 (Exam CIS 479)

Machine Learning
L13
06-14
 Neural Networks

Genetic Algorithms
L14

L15
06-19
 Natural Language Understanding

Object-Oriented AI

Project 4 due
L11

L10
06-20
 Oral Presentations
(3:00 - 7:00 pm)		  
06-26
 Term project write-ups due