CS 495   Special Topics:  ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Fall 1999,  Instructor: Jeffrey Horn
 

NUMBER:    CS 495 (11936, Lec. 01)

PREREQUISITES:      Two semesters of programming (CS 120 and CS 122) or permission of instructor.

MEETING TIMES:    3-3:50 PM  MWR (+ Friday lab)

CREDIT HOURS:  4

DESCRIPTION:

This course takes students beyond the traditionally rigid and brittle algorithms of computer science.  Students learn techniques for making computers behave more intelligently and adaptively than typical programs.  The course includes a survey of the broad and dynamic field of computer intelligence, from the established techniques for automated reasoning, knowledge representation, and machine learning, to the newer areas of stochastic, adaptive systems, such as neural networks, genetic algorithms, or intelligent agents.  A few specific methodologies will be explored in depth, through implementation and application to real-world problems.

(and yes, we will work on the new hexapod, below!  for at least some part of the semester)

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