B552: Knowledge-Based Computation, Spring 2012
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Contents

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

Announcements

Welcome to the class!

Course details

Staff

• Professor: David Leake (E-mail: leake at cs).
• Associate Instructor: Vahid Jalalibarsari (E-mail: vjalalib at cs).

Meeting Time and Place

Essential Information

Everyone is responsible for reading the following pages.

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

Communication

• Instructor Office hours, Info West 203:
  Tuesday 12:15-1:45
  Thursday 10:30-12:00
  If my door is closed during office hours, please knock, even if I am talking with someone, so I will know you are there.
  Occasionally I may have to be absent from office hours due to administrative meetings/travel. I'm happy to make appointments at other times when needed. Please send email to set up a meeting (please include your scheduling constraints).
• Associate Instructor Office hours, Info West 205: MW 11:00-12:30
• Email questions: I'm happy to get questions by email. Please include "B552" in the subject line.
• Homework submissions: Submissions will by via Oncourse.

Assignment and presentation information

• Semester projects
  • Final project writeup guidelines and grading information
• Presentations of research papers
  • Guidelines for presenting research papers
  • Discussant guidelines
• Homework assignments
  • HW2, parts due Feb 20 and Feb 22.
  • A get-acquainted survey is available on Oncourse. Please complete this before class on Feb 1.
  • HW1, due Wed, Jan 26, before the start of class. A file of starter tips and advice is available (this is aimed especially at those who will be coding the assignment in languages other than scheme).
• Reading assignments
  
  • Feb 15: "Inference and Paraphrase by Computer", by Schank, Goldman, Rieger and Riesbeck, JACM, 1975.
  • Feb 13: A Framework for Representing Knowledge, by Minsky, MIT-AI Laboratory Memo 306, June, 1974.
  • Jan 30: What is a knowledge representation? by Davis, Shrobe, and Szolovits, AI Magazine, Spring, 1993
  • Jan 11: 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 (available from IU IP addresses)

• Slides on Semantic nets and frames
• Slides on Rieger's inferencing process
• Slides on production systems
• Slides on Mycin

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, Third edition, Prentice Hall, 2009. Q335 .R86 2009.
• 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

• Some info on Aaron

AI/Cog Sci societies