CSCE 420: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Instructor: Dr. Dylan Shell.
| Office | : | HRBB 330C |
| Phone | : | (979) 845-2369 |
| : | dshell@tamu.edu | |
| Web | : | http://robots.cs.tamu.edu/dshell/cs420 |
| Office hours | : | Wednesdays and Thursdays 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM, by appointment too |
TA Information
| Name | : | Aditya Biradavolu |
| : | aditya95913@tamu.edu | |
| Office hours | : | Thursdays and Fridays - 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM, by appointment too |
Fall 2020
| Lecture Time | : | Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays, 12:00pm-12:50pm. |
| Lecture Location | : | ZACH 310 + Zoom |
Logistics
Slack is being used for communication, general coordination, and to post and share files. Details, for example, of the zoom links are available in the appropriate slack channels.
Syllabus
For additional details, please refer to the Syllabus.
Supplementary readings
- [CMI] "Computing Machinery and Intelligence," by Alan M. Turing. Mind 49:433-460, 1950.
- [SoA] The Sciences of the Artificial, 3rd Edition by Herbert A. Simon, 1996.
- [Roach] Dynamic stabilization of rapid hexapedal locomotion, Devin L. Jindrich, Robert J. Full. Journal of Experimental Biology 2002 205: 2803-2823. (Also see: 1, 2, 3)
- [D*Lite] "D* Lite," by S. Koenig and M. Likhachev. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 476-483, 2002
- [E-Graphs] "E-Graphs: Bootstrapping Planning with Experience Graphs," by Mike Phillips, Benjamin Cohen, Sachin Chitta and Maxim Likhachev. Proceedings of the Robotics: Science and Systems Conference, 2012.
- [Do-Calc] "Introduction to Judea Pearl's Do-Calculus," by Robert R. Tucci, Apr 2013.
- [IwoR] "Intelligence without representation," by Rodney A. Brooks, 1991.
- [POMDP] Tony Cassandra's POMDP Tutorial
- [Formal] The Jordan Curve Theorem, Formally and Informally, Thomas C. Hales, The American Mathematical Monthly, vol. 114, 2007, pp. 882-894.
Other resources
Here are some other materials that are useful.
- IEEE Spectrum on Claude Shannon
- Tom Lehrer 1 2
- The Dartmouth Conference Proposal
- Terry Bisson's "They're made out of meat"
- Blackboard
- Simon's and Chabris (1999) Selective Attention Test
- Geese and Wasps
- Magenta and how we perceive colour [see also application of the Benham disc and Pointillism and Neo-impressionism]
- Evolving Robots
- The R&N map of Romania 2
- BBC Radio 4: Melvyn Bragg's discussion of the history and overview of logic; Thought Cages: #3 is an interesting perspective on logical thinking
- A good example of how to communicate a technical topic in an engaging way: Hexaflexagons, Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange, Homomorphic Encryption, Zero Knowledge Proofs
- Previous communication projects: 1 2 3
- Rap battle between economists; Overfitting Thriller.
- Menace Modern re-creation
