COURSE OBJECTIVES

Students will gain knowledge of many of the major areas of AI and experience with some of the techniques and approaches used to investigate these topic areas. Topic areas will include: search, game-playing, reasoning, machine learning, and machine vision. Other possible topic areas are: planning and natural language processing.
Students will be challenged to form their own perspectives on such abstract concepts as ‘intelligence’, ‘consciousness’, ‘mind’, etc. Additionally, students will understand some of the major debates that have occurred within the AI community (e.g., ‘strong’ vs ‘weak’ AI).

REQUIRED TEXT

Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach by Russell & Norvig

CONTACT INFORMATION

Professor: Michael R. Scheessele

Office: Northside Hall, room 329

Phone: (219) 237-4815

e-mail: mscheess@iusb.edu

URL: http://www.cs.iusb.edu/~mikes/

OFFICE HOURS

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday: 5:00-6:30pm.

Also by appointment.

DISABILITIES NOTE

“If you have a disability that may require assistance or accommodations, or if you have questions related to any accommodations for testing, note takers, readers, etc., please speak with me as soon as possible. Students also may call Disabled Student Services (237-4479) for additional information about services available at IUSB.”

GRADING

7 homeworks (35%)

Project and presentation (15%)

Exam 1 (20%)

Exam 2 (20%)

Class Participation (10%)

Final Grade Cutoff Points:

97.5%: A+

92.5%: A

90.0%: A-

87.5%: B+

82.5%: B

80.0%: B-

77.5%: C+

72.5%: C

70.0%: C-

67.5%: D+

62.5%: D

60.0%: D-

<60.0% F

POLICIES

Class
Participation: Excessive unexcused absences will reduce the ‘class participation’ grade. Failure to complete the readings assigned for a class period may also reduce this grade.

Exams: Let me know in advance if you must miss an exam. Without advance notice, you will not be allowed to make up the exam.

Project: Details will be given throughout the semester. Students may choose the programming language for the project.

Homeworks: A homework should be turned in by the start of class on its due date. A homework will still be accepted up to one week late (by start of the class one week after the due date) with a penalty of -15%. A homework more than one week late receives no credit. We will use both C++ and Lisp throughout the course of the semester.

Cheating: From the Academic Handbook – Indiana University South Bend:
“Academic Misconduct: Cheating and Plagiarism
The faculty member has a responsibility to foster the intellectual honesty of the students. Should the faculty member detect signs of plagiarism or cheating, it is his or her duty to investigate thoroughly, to take appropriate action with respect to the grades of the students, and to report the matter to the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs.”