CSC 480      Artificial Intelligence      Dr. Susan Imberman     Spring 2008

Prerequisites: CSC 326

Textbooks;     Artificial Intelligence A Modern Approach, Stuart Russell, Peter Norvig, 2nd edition ISBN 0-13-790395-2

Course Requirements

2 Exams

50%

Projects, Collected Homework

30%

Robot Project

20%

Office Hours:  Mon 5:00PM – 6:30PM     Wed 5:00PM - 6:30PM

 E-mail:        imberman at mail dot csi dot cuny dot edu (make sure you include the @ instead of the at, the . instead of the dot, and  no spaces)

Course Web Site:  http://cs.csi.cuny.edu/~imberman/ai/index.htm

Course Outline - The topics and dates listed below are subject to change.  Check the course web page for a more detailed, interactive view as the semester progresses.

1.      History of Artificial Intelligence

2.      Intelligent Agents

3.      Solving Problems by Searching

4.      Search Methods

5.      Game Playing

6.      Agents that reason logically

7.      Learning from Observations - Decision Trees

8.      Learning in Neural Networks

9.      Robotics

Academic Integrity:  CSI’s academic integrity policy:

Integrity is fundamental to the academic enterprise. It is violated by such acts as borrowing or purchasing term papers, essays, reports, and other written assignments; using concealed notes or crib sheets during examinations; copying the work of others and submitting it as one’s own; and misappropriating the knowledge of others. The source from which one derives one’s ideas, statements, terms, and data must be fully and specifically acknowledged in the appropriate form; failure to do so, intentionally or unintentionally, constitutes plagiarism. Violations of academic integrity may result in failure in a course and in disciplinary actions with penalties such as suspension or dismissal from the college.

 

MY Academic Integrity Policy – We will be doing a lot of group work this semester.  The workload should be shared by all members of a team, not shared with other teams.  Copying someone else’s computer code, even though you changed the variable names, is called plagiarism and cheating.  All cheating is rewarded with a 0 on the assignment whether you are the copyer or the copyee.