CPSC 433: Artificial Intelligence - General Information

Instructor:

Jörg Denzinger
Email: denzinge@cpsc.ucalgary.ca	Phone: (403) 220-5574
Office: ICT 752	Office hours: TR 13:00 - 14:00 or by appointment
Lectures:	L01: TR 14:00 - 15:15 in ST l28

News:

Apr 29, 2008:		The results of the final exam together with the unofficial course grades can be found here.
Apr 6, 2008:		As promissed in the lectures, here are the times available for the teams to do their demos of their systems to me. Please send me an email indicating at least 3 possible times (and the order of your preference)! Wednesday, April 16: 10:00, 11:00, 12:00, 13:00, 14:00, 15:00
Mar 24, 2008:		The two input files for the Department example instances you will have to send me the results from your system for are here and here.
Mar 18, 2008:		All students can take a look at their Midterm on Thursday, March 20, from 13:00 to 13:45 (in front of my office).
Mar 14, 2008:		The results of the midterm are here.
Mar 11, 2008:		The midterm is on Thursday, March 13, at 17:15 in ICT 116.
Mar 1, 2008:		A description of how an input file for your system looks like, what other input your system has to be able to accept and how the output of the system has to look like can be found here.
Feb. 12, 2008:		As promissed in the lectures, here are the times available for the teams to meet with me before handing in your papers. Please send me an email indicating at least 3 possible times (and the order of your preference)! Wednesday, Feb. 27: 10:00, 11:00, 12:00, 13:00, 14:00, 15:00
Oct. 16, 2007:		Course web site started.

Description of the course

According to Calendar:
An examination of the objectives, key techniques and achievements of work on Artificial Intelligence in Computer Science.

According to me:
An overview on the different fields of AI and its history, an introduction to knowledge representation and knowledge processing, especially search as the key problem solving technique and the different search paradigms, and an overview (with some case studies) of the areas planing, learning and cooperation (this only if time permits).

Prerequisite:: Computer Science 313 and one of 349 or 449

Note that a basic understanding in logic is definitely required for this course (Philosophy 279 or 377 are prerequisites of CPSC 349 and 449, therefore they are not explicitely mentioned in the calendar)! Although we will introduce the basic concepts of how to process and solve problems described in logic in this course, knowing what logical formulas, propositions and calculi are and how a problem can be represented as a set of formulas is a must!

Labs/Tutorials

The main goals of the tutorials will be to help you in more deeply understanding the concepts presented in the lectures (providing more examples) and with your assignment.

to an explanation of the assessment of the students taking the course.

Last Change: 29/4/2008