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Resources

Reserves at Swain Library

On 2-hour reserve:

• Russell, S. and Norvig, P. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, second edition. Prentice Hall, 2003. Q335 .R86 2003

Python references

• Official Python documentation and tutorials
• Python homepage
• Python wiki
• Python examples for algorithms in the textbook

(the following links are courtesy of David Leake)

Web Sites of Interest

• A nice NLP cartoon
• A page on the 16th World Computer Chess Championship
• The Chinook home page.
• The Soar home page.
• The AAAI video competition home page
• The AI Landscape poster and timeline.

On-line Demos, Software, and Video Clips

• The Emergent neural network simulation package and a Wikipedia description of Emergent
• NETtalk page
• An applet demonstrating perceptron learning
• A Hopfield network demo applet
• Pengo game
• A video of Minerva, a tour guide robot
• RoboCup 2005 videos from the small size league, the four-legged league and the humanoid league.
• A simple expert system demo
• Elbot, the 2008 Loebner prize winner, as described in articles from The Age and the BBC
• Thinking Machine 4: A demo chess program illustrating the machine's consideration of moves.
• AIspace demo applets
• A video of a robot assembly line and all-robotic Honda assembly
• A video of Boss, the CMU DARPA Urban Challenge winner
• A video of a not so successful run in the DARPA urban challenge and an even less successful one from 2005.

AI/Cog Sci societies

If you're interested in going deeper into AI/Cog Sci, you should consider joining societies such as the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, the Cognitive Science Society, or the ACM's SIGART. All offer very reasonable student membership rates including publications (AI Magazine, Cognitive Science, and SIGART Bulletin).