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CS 265

Advanced Topics in Machine Intelligence

Fall Quarter 2008

Instructor

Professor Matthew Turk (contact info)

Office hours: Tues/Thurs 5-6pm or by appointment, or drop by and see if I'm available (Frank Hall 2163)  

TA

Soo Hwan Park (spark2007 at cs.ucsb.edu)

Office hours: Email for questions or to schedule a meeting  

Meeting Times and Location

Tues/Thurs 3:00-5:00pm, Trailer 932

Communication

Questions: cs265 at cs.ucsb.edu goes to the instructor

Course mailing list: http://lists.cs.ucsb.edu/mailman/listinfo/cs265

Announcements

• We will have project presentations on Monday, December 8th from 3:00-5:00pm, in the regular classroom. (The project reports are still due on Dec. 4.)
• You can peruse the Project #1 assignments here.
• Homework assignment #3 is now posted, due Tuesday, November 18.
• The project #2 topic is now due on WEDNESDAY rather than Tuesday.
• Slide #43 from today's lecture (Tues 10/28) is corrected in the lecture notes.
• Here is a small collection of articles about AI in games.
• Here's an article about the most recent Loebner Prize competition.
• Version 1.1 of HW#2 is now posted. There are mostly minor formatting changes, and a change in the point total for problem 3.
• Oops - the reading for Tuesday is CHAPTER 6, not chapter 5. (The title was correct on the schedule, but not the chapter number.) It is corrected now.
• Here is the brief MIT Technology Review article on Sandy Pentland's work in reality mining.
• Remember NOT TO COME TO CLASS ON THURSDAY! Instead, go to Sandy Pentland's talk at the Mosher Alumni House (2nd floor) at 4pm.
• Here's an interesting short article on the Turing Test and the upcoming Loebner Prize competition.
• Version 2.1 of HW#1 is posted - minor typo corrected (it should say "MI to MU" in problem 1, not "AI to CS").
• HW#1 note: For problem 1-1, the rules are to be applied one at a time, not multiple times at once. For example, rule 2 can change "MIMI" to "UIMI" or "MIUI", but not to "UIUI" (that would take two steps, not one).
• Version 2.0 of HW1 is available - Problem #1 is now a "MU problem".
• Peter Norvig, one of the authors of our textbook, will give a keynote talk at the CS Graduate Student Workshop on Computing at 11:15am on Friday, October 3rd.
  • Here's an article about Norvig and AI from last year.
• I'll try to provide both PDF and PPT files for the lecture notes - now the link goes to a directory that has both formats.
• Please join the course mailing list.
• The reading assignment for Tuesday's class is now posted on the Schedule page.
• Get the textbook, available in the bookstore, right away!
• The textbook and other AI books are available in the UCSB Library Course Reserves for 2-hour loan.
• The reading for Tuesday will be posted here soon....
• Lecture notes (in PPT format) will normall be posted on the Schedule page after class, but for now here are Thursday's lecture notes. Sometimes I will include extra slides that we didn't actually cover in class, so do look over these.
  • To access them, use the login/password combination of "ai/ai". You may have to enter this twice. (Remember this, since it will go away soon!)
• On October 9th, instead of coming to class at 3pm, everyone should attend the Sage Center distinguished lecture at 4pm:
  • Speaker: Sandy Pentland, MIT Media Lab
  • Title: "Honest Signals"
  • Location: Mosher Alumni House, 2nd floor - come early, it will probably be full (and they usually have food!
• If anyone needs an approval code, please check with the CS office (Amanda, Greta, or Benji).

Preview of CS 265:

• This will be a graduate-level Artificial Intelligence course. We will first cover the basics of AI (knowledge representation, search, planning, logic, uncertainty, reasoning). We'll then go deeper into a collection of AI topics, such as games, probabilistic reasoning, natural language processing, intelligent interfaces, and the (possible) coming singularity (exact list TBD).
• Prerequisites: Graduate standing in Computer Science, or permission of instructor. CS 165A is not strictly required.
• Relationship to CS 165A (undergraduate AI, also taught in the fall quarter): In the first half of the quarter, we will cover some of the same material as CS 165A, but much more quickly, and we will write more code.