Notes

A List of Lists

Java Resources

• Thinking in Java, 3rd ed. Revision 4.0 - Title Page - an online book by Bruce Eckel

• The Java Tutorial

Handy Board

• Interactive C Manual.pdf

• Handyboard Manual.pdf

  • Handyboard infrared receiver data sheet is1u60.pdf

  • Academic/Robots/HandyBoard/appendxb.pdf

AI Criticism

• Marvin Minsky on AI

  • EE Times - A veritable cognitive mind 

  • Wired 11.08- VIEW

  • Marvin Minsky Home Page

Games

• Kasparov - Deep Junior, New York, 2003

• Chess Software

Constraint Satisfaction

• Constraint Satisfaction Problems

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Logic

• Bongard Problems

• Bongard Problems

Robots

• DARPA Information Processing Technology Office - Common Robotic Mobility Platform (RMP):

  • Segway RMP Georgia Tech

  • Segway Robotic Mobility Platform SSC San Diego

  • Carnegie Mellon Robot Soccer

Research Groups

• MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab

• MIT Media Laboratory

• First humanoid personal assistant will open doors

Learning

• AI Research - Creating a new form of life

Other Courses

• CS 188, Fall 2002 UC Berkley

Knowledge Databases

• Cycorp- Company Overview started by Doug Lenat

Questions:

• What is intelligence? Is a tree intelligent, a new born, a virus?
  • Do we need to be rational to be intelligent?
  • Snails raise fungus on grasses so they have something to eat. Does this make snails as intelligent as human mushroom farmers?
• What is artificial intelligence? What are some examples of AI?
  • Do we need optimal solutions or just good solutions?
  • Do we always need a cost/utility/objective function?
• Can a computer act like a human? If yes how long will it take? Will it be a digital computer?
  • Is the Turing Test a good test of intelligence?
  • What game was the Turing Test based on?
  • Does and AI need to speak?
  • Do we need to mimic the biology of the brain to achieve human-like intelligence?
  • What is dualism?
• Have you created and artificial intelligence if you do the following?
  • Train a dog to herd sheep.
  • Breed a plant to grow in a place that it never has before/ 
  • Genetically engineer a new organism.
• Forms of intelligence:
  • behavior-based 
  • model-based 
  • symbolic 
  • planning
• Technologies used to implement computer based intelligence
  • behavior-based
    • subsumption architecture with a hierarchy of behaviors
  • search
    • exhaustive breadth first vs. depth first search
    • hill climbing
      • genetic algorithms
      • neural networks (back-propagation)
    • interior points methods
    • reinforcement learning
  • reasoning
    • prepositional logic
    • first order predicate logic
    • fuzzy logic
    • stochastic/Bayesian Networks
  • knowledge representation
    • frames
• What is state?
• Classification of environments
  • stochastic vs. deterministic
  • fully vs. partially controllable
  • fully vs. partially observable
  • static or dynamic
  • discrete vs. continuous
• Classification of intelligent agents
  • fully vs. partially control of environment
  • fully vs. partially observable environment
  • open loop vs. close loop control
  • autonomous - without human intervention
  • learning
  • discrete vs. continuous
  • complete memory vs. fading memory
  • behavior vs. planning-based 
• How do we encode past states?
  • state covariance
  • velocity, acceleration, etc.
    • Proportional ,Integral and Derivative (PID) Control
  • linked list, table, etc.