Transcript Intro to CITS4211 for 2013 - Unit information

CITS4211
Artificial Intelligence
Semester 1, 2013
A/Prof Lyndon While
School of Computer Science & Software Engineering
The University of Western Australia
Course content
Introduction to and history of AI
 Intelligent agents
 Problem solving
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– Uninformed and informed search, game playing
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Learning
– Decision-making, reinforcement learning
Planning and acting
 Knowledge representation and reasoning
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– Logic and inference
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Contact
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Lecture
– Thursdays, 2-4pm, GP2
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Lab
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Wednesdays from Week 2, noon-1pm, 2.01
Unsupervised: use help4211 for assistance
But feel free to do lab work any time
The School provides free wireless for laptops
Software is open source
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help4211
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Email [email protected]
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Assessment
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Mid-semester test: 15%
– In the lecture, Week 9
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Project: 25%
– On-going, due near end of semester
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Exam: 60%
– June exam period
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Texts
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AI: a Modern Approach
– Russell & Norvig
– 3rd edition (but 2nd edition is fine too)
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AI: Foundations of Computational Agents
– Poole & Mackworth
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Resources
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Unit web-site
– Notes, lab-sheets, code and docs, etc
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Announcements will be made
– In lectures
– On the web-site
– On help4211
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Questions
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What does AI mean to you?
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Why is it important?
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