Description of the course

Artificial intelligence (AI) has recently regained the limelight, as the human world chess champion was beaten by Deep Blue, a program written by a team of researchers and programmers from IBM. Even more recently, a "re-match" against a distributed machine in Jerusalem also favored a computer program. True AI applications are also on the rise, from expert systems for diagnosis and advice, through increasingly intelligent robots, to intelligent and autonomous www agents.

This course deals with the issues of defining intelligence and rationality in an agent, various methods of formalizing them, and models for representing and using knowledge. In specific topics, mainly search and logical reasoning, the course will focus all the way down to the algorithm level, in order to provide some hands-on experience with programming artificially intelligent agents.

• Course Reference: Artificial Intelligence (202-1-5151) - Spring 2006
• Credits: 4
• Instructor: Prof. Solomon Eyal Shimony
• Grader: Binshtok Max (maximbi@cs.bgu.ac.il)
• Course scheduled at:
  1. Sun 14-16, room 301 (building 28)
  2. Wed 15-17, room 206 (building 32)
• Syllabus and requirements
• Midterm exams, (use of books and notes allowed). Dates:
  1. Sunday May 14, 14-16, room 301 (building 28), the regular classroom.
     Moved from Friday, May 12, by student request.
     Makeup lecture: Friday, May 12, 9-11, room 3 (Building 34).
  2. 2nd midterm exam: Wednesday, June 21, room 206 (building 32), i.e. at the regular classroom as the last class period of the semester. See this link for list of relevant chapters.
     Refresher lecture: Tuesday, June 20, 16-18, room TBA (fallback: building 58, room 201 if no other room announced.)
• Assignments: will be base on a simplified version of the game Unreal Tournament.
  1. Assignment 1: environments and search (simplified, deterministic). Optional graphical interface you can use for output.
  2. Assignment 2: Adversarial games.
  3. Assignment 3: Exercise on agents, search, and logical reasoning.
     Final extended submission deadline: Friday, May 12, 9 AM. Solution now available.
  4. Alternate Assignment 2: Alternative programming assignment - logical reaoning.
  5. Assignment 4: Exercise on planning, probabilistic reasoning, and learning.
     Solutions to be posted June 20 in the afternoon.
• Example quiz and Answers
• Lecture topics and notes.

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