B552: Knowledge-Based Computation, Fall 2009
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Contents

• Announcements
• Course details
• Communication
• Assignment and presentation information
• Resources

Announcements

Hw 3 posted, due Oct 21.

Course details

Staff

• Professor: David Leake (E-mail: leake at cs).
• Associate Instructor: Jay Powell (E-mail: jhpowell at cs).

Meeting Time and Place

Essential Information

Everyone is responsible for reading the following pages.

• Overview of class policies, etc.
• Syllabus
• Departmental statement on academic integrity

Communication

• Instructor Office hours: Monday and Wednesday, LH230D, 12:45-1:45.
  If my door is closed during office hours, please knock, even if I am talking with someone, so I will know you are there.
  If you can't make these hours, or if I have to be absent during these hours, I'd be happy to make appointments to meet at other times. In either case, please send email, and please include your scheduling constraints in the message.
• Associate Instructor Office hours: Monday, LH406, 9:30-11:00am, Thursday, LH406, 1:00-2:30pm, and by appointment.
• Email questions: I'm happy to get questions by email. Please include "B552" in the subject line.
• Submissions: Submissions will be done through Oncourse. The oncourse message system may also be used to send general-interest questions, thoughts, and news to the class. Please use the email option and include "B552" in the subject line. NB: The handling of class discussions may change based on class needs and preferences.

Assignment and presentation information

• Semester projects
  • Keep on the lookout for potential areas! Also, use the project idea exchange page for sharing possibilities and contacting potential project partners.
  • Final project writeup guidelines and grading information
  • Guidelines for project presentations.
• Presentations of research papers
  • Guidelines for presenting research papers
  • Discussant guidelines
  • Paper presentation information, to include titles, dates, presenters, and discussants.
• Homework assignments
  • HW3, due before class on Wednesday, Oct 20.
  • HW2, due Wed, Oct 14 before class (submission by oncourse).
  • HW1, parts due Sept 28, Sept 30 and Oct 5.
• Reading assignments
  
  • Sept 21: From Russell and Norvig's Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, Second Edition (on reserve at Swain):
    • Background refresher: As needed, review Chap 7 through 7.5, except for resolution; Chap 8; 9.3 up to p 282; pp. 287-288.
    • Read 8.4 and chapter 10 through page 331.
  • Sept 9: What is a knowledge representation? by Davis, Shrobe, and Szolovits, AI Magazine, Spring, 1993
  • Sept 2: On the thresholds of knowledge, by Lenat and Feigenbaum, IJCAI 87, pp. 1173-1182.

Resources

• Supplementary class materials
• Materials on reserve at Swain library
• On-line resources (includes links to Web sites and on-line papers)
• AI/Cog Sci societies

Supplementary class materials (Some may only be available within IU)

Slides

• Slides on production systems

Video Clips

Reserves at Swain Library

• Leake, D. Case-Based Reasoning: Experiences, Lessons, and Future Directions. AAAI Press, 1996. QA76.76.E95 C374 1996.
• Riesbeck, C. and Schank, R. Inside Case-Based Reasoning. Erlbaum, 1989. Q336 .R54 1989.
• Russell, S. and Norvig, P. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, Prentice Hall, 1995. Q335 .R86 1995
• Schank, R.C., Riesbeck, C., and Kass, A. Inside case-based explanation. Erlbaum, 1994. Q338.8 .S3 1994.
• Schank, R.C., and Riesbeck, C. Inside Computer Understanding, Erlbaum, 1981. Q336 .I55 1981.

On 24-hour reserve:

• Schank, R.C., Conceptual Information Processing, Elsevier, 1975. P98 .S3

On-line Resources

AI/Cog Sci societies