| DATE | TOPIC | READINGS/ASSIGNMENTS | |
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| September 9 | Intro to AI: Historical Background and Definitions | Wright, Robert. "Can Machines Think" Time March 25, 1996, pp. 50-58.
Dutta, Chap. 1: Knowledge Processing & Applied AI |
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| September 15 | Expert Systems: Knowledge Acquisition & Representation | Dutta, Chaps. 2-3 Kelly, Chaps. 1-5 (IN PREPARATION FOR MEETING OUR "EXPERT") |
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| September 23 | More ES: Creating a Rules-based Application Introduction to CLIPS (our Expert System Shell) |
Dutta, Chaps. 4-5 Kelly, Chaps. 6-7 |
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| September 30 | More Work With Clips | . | |
| October 7 | Natural Language Processing | Dutta, Chap. 6 | |
| October 14 | More Natural Language Processing | . | |
| October 21 | Quiz Over Course Readings Through Oct. 7th | . | |
| October 28 | Special Topics: Image and Speech Processing | Dutta, Chap. 7 | |
| November 4 | Special Topics: Fuzzy Logic | Dutta, Chap. 8 Due: Critical Book Review |
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| November 11 | Special Topics: Neural Nets and Connectionist Modeling, and Data Mining w/ Neural Nets | Dutta, Chap. 9 | |
| November 18 | Special Topics: Machine Learning: Genetic Algorithms | . | |
| November 25 | Special Topics: Artificial Life, AI in Science Fiction | . | |
| December 2 | Intelligent Tutoring Systems? | . | |
| December 9 | No Class | Due: Final Web Page Demonstration of a Special Topic | |
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