CSC 355 - Artificial Intelligence

Coordinator: Alan Dix

Staff Involved: Geoff Coulson, Manolis Sifalakis, Hans Gellerson, Gerd Kortuem, Paul Rayson, Keith Cheverst

Monday:	9am-11am
Tuesday:	1pm-2pm

DRAFT: Some details to be finalised for later weeks

week	dates	lecturer	topic
11	Jan 15th&16th	Alan Dix	Intro and Overview slides: intro || Alan's wot I've done
12	Jan 22nd&23rd	Geoff Coulson	Scheme Programming and Search Algorithms slides || slides 6 up (updated 1/2/2007)
13	Jan 29th&30th	Geoff Coulson
14	Feb 5th&6th	Paul Rayson	Natural Language Processing slides || slides 6 up || practical exercises
15	Feb 12th&13th	Gerd Kortuem	Reasining, including Distributed Reasoning (plus maybe temporal reasoning) slides || prolog examples || handout Allen's paper
16	Feb 19th&20th	Manolis Sifalakis	Emergent AI, Ant Models, Applications to Networking ALife slides: PPT (3.9M) || PDF (1.3M) || PDF-6up (296K) Ant algorithms: PPT (2.2M) || PDF (1.5M) || PDF-6up (344K) Genetic algorithms: PPT (3.1M) || PDF (1.5M) || PDF-6up (416K)
17	Feb 26th	Manolis Sifalakis
	Feb 27th	Keith Cheverst	Decision Trees for Ambient Intelligence slides (PDF, 396K) || Keith's page with links
18	Mar 5th&6th	Kristof Van Laerhoven (guest lecturer)	Artificial Neural Nets slides (4.3M) || slides 6 up (2.3M)
19	Mar 12th&13th	Hans Gellerson ++	Computer Vision and Ubicomp slides (2.1M) || slides 6 up (923K)
20	Mar 19th	Alan Dix (& GC)	Group presentations
	Mar 20th	Alan Dix	Wrap up plas a bit of semantic web slides (28K) || slides 3 up (20K)

Because we are taking a more application-focused approach, the course will not be covered entirely by a single book and lecturers will give additional reading (web links, papers, slides, notes, etc.) as appropriate. The following are two general AI textbooks, but there are many more good ones out there too.

	Artificial Intelligence A Modern Approach S. Russell and P Norvig Prentice Hall ISBN 0-13-103805-2 amazon link One of the Monster AI books!
	Artificial Intelligence Janet Finlay, Alan Dix Taylor & Francis Books Ltd amazon link book web site A smaller (and cheaper) book. Janet and I wrote this some years ago to act as an introductory text as there were loads of Bible-sized AI tecxtbooks, but nothing more lightweight. It does get into detail, but doesn't give as much on each point as a bigger textbook ... Also available in Japanese!

Scheme and Lisp

• “The Little Schemer”, Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen, Duane Bibby, January 1996, MIT Press, ISBN: 0262560992
• “The structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs”, Abelson and Sussman (in library)
• “Lisp”, Patrick Henry Winston and Berthold Klaus Paul Horn, Addison Wesley
  there are many editions, any one is fine
• “Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern”, Douglas Hofstadter
  contains an excellent short introduction to Lisp

Natural language Processing

• Chris Manning and Hinrich Schütze, Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing, MIT
  Press. Cambridge, MA: May 1999. Companion website: http://nlp.stanford.edu/fsnlp/

GAs and things

• M. Tim Jones. 2003: AI Application Programming. Charles River Media, Inc
• M. Mitchell. 1998: An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms. MIT Press
• J. Koza. 1992: Genetic Programming: On the Programming of Computers by Means of Natural Selection. MIT Press