Philip Chan
322 Harris Center, 674-7280

Office Hours: MW 1-3pm (or by appointment)

Syllabus

Assignments (Submit Server)

• HW1
• HW2
• HW3
• HW4
• HW5
  • Restaurant: restaurant-attr.txt, restaurant-train.txt
  • IDS: ids-attr.txt, ids-train.txt, ids-test.txt
  • TTT: ttt-attr.txt, ttt-train.txt, ttt-test.txt

Lecture Notes

• AI Landscape
• AI in Chess
  • Video: Deep Blue beat G. Kasparov in 1997
  • Deep Blue at IBM Research
  • A history of Computer Chess
• Robots
  • The Great Robot Race, NOVA, PBS
  • Robocup 2008
  • Autonomous helicopter
  • Google Car [2010]
• Question Answering
  • Watson beat human champions in 2011
  • Jeopardy: Question Answering (IBM's Watson)
  • Watson turns medic: Supercomputer to diagnose disease
  • IBM Watson: The Science Behind an Answer
• Speech Recognition
  • Apple Siri [2011]
• Intro to Common Lisp
• Ch1 Eliza, Cleverbot, Chatting with a bot
• Ch2
• Ch3 (reference: Dijkstra's algorithm vs UCS )
• Ch4 (4.1-4.2)
• Ch5 (5.1-5.5) (Alpha-Beta Pruning Practice, Slide show from Computer History Museum (not working as of Sept 2015))
• Ch7 (7.1-7.5)
• Ch8 (8.1-8.3)
• Ch9 (9.1-9.5)
• Ch18 (18.1-18.3)
• Ch10 (10.1-2,10.4)
• Ch6 (6.1-6.3)
• Ch13 (13.1-13.5)

Common LISP

• CLISP
  • Win32
  • Linux: search for clisp at rpmfind.net
  • MacOS X
• LispWorks
  • LispWorks Personal Edition
• Parinfer -- lisp editor
• Lamkins, D. (2004). Successful Lisp: How to Understand and Use Common Lisp. bookfix.com. Online version: http://psg.com/~dlamkins/sl/
• Other books
  • Good book: Graham (1995). ANSI Common Lisp. Prentice Hall.
  • Easier (free) book: Touretzky (1989). Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation. Benjamin/Cummings.
  • Harder (free) book: Graham (1993). On Lisp. Prentice Hall.
  • List of LISP books, some are free

Prolog

• SWI-Prolog
• Downloading SWI-Prolog (linux: search for pl at rpmfind.net)
• Manual; 2.1 Getting started quickly
• prolog.txt
• family.pl
• monkey.pl

Resources

• AI in the news at AAAI
• AI in the Computing Experience: Challenges and Opportunities, Bill Gates' keynote speech at IJCAI, 2001
• AAAI Video Archive
• CutePDF Writer (generating PDF files)
• Document conversion service at CERN