2009: Topics Covered in COSC 6368

1. 2009: Topics Covered in COSC 6368 • More general topics: • search algorithm in general • logical reasoning and FOPL as a language • AI-specific Topics: • Heuristic Search/Games/Applying those techniques in the Rush Hour Course project. • resolution / theorem proving • reasoning in uncertain environments: naïve Bayesian systems, soft computing and belief networks (was cut a little short) • machine learning centering on neural networks, decision trees and reinforcement learning • Evolutionary computing • The 2009 class was taught more “applied” and project/homework oriented  more time was allocated in lectures to discuss projects and homework problems and for in-class-homeworks • The 2009 teaching centered more on depth than on breadthless topics were coved in 2009.

2. AI in General and What Was not Covered in COSC 6368 • Robotics is a quite important sub-field of AI, but very few teach it in the graduate AI class. • Planning deserves some coverage. • Intelligent Agents and AI for the Internet might become more important changing what is taught in graduate AI-classes in a few years from now. • Data Mining was not covered due to the fact that a course on this topic will be offered in Fall 2009. • Knowledge-based systems deserve some coverage. • Foundations of AI was not covered (we were just running out of time)