This one semester course provides a strong grounding in the fundamentals of AI in the context of an intelligent agent. It should be of value both to students who want only one semester of background in AI and to students who want to pursue AI further. For the latter students, a new one semester course will be soon offered. The second course will further flesh out the concept of an intelligent agent with an examination of many of the more advanced capabilities required in a complete agent.
In CSE-7320, we begin by introducing AI and the concept of an agent. In this context we introduce Lisp, a computer language developed specifically to support symbolic processing. Although CSE-7320 is not a programming course per se -- the focus is more on concepts than on programming skill -- experience in using languages like Lisp will be an important part of the course. We then proceed to examine, in the context of intelligent agents, the core concepts underlying symbolic artificial intelligence: search, representation, and reasoning. This will include a significant amount of material on logic, which forms the basis for much of the existing work on representation and reasoning, as well as a smattering of more applied topics (such as game playing).
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