CS 541, FALL 2009

John Oliensis
Phone:  (201) 216-8311 
E-mail:  (my last name) at cs.stevens.edu.  
Office hours:  by appt: Lieb 213 (2nd Floor)
Lectures :  Monday 6:15-8:45      LIEB 319   

 

Grader: Darren Alton definelightning at gmail dot com, dalton at stevens dot edu

Important Messages Board

  • Final is Monday December 7 at 6:15 (or earlier, if everyone can make it...)

  • Homework 4. Due Monday November 9 at 6:15pm (before the project below!)

  • Game Playing Project   (Homework 3).
          Part 1 is due Monday Nov 16 at 6:15pm.
          Part 2 is due Thursday Dec 3 at 5pm

    • Some papers on games whose tricks you may want to use:

  • In every email to me, please put 541 as the first word in the subject line so I can tell it's not spam and don't erase it inadvertently.

    • Course Information


          Important Messages Board


    Contents
    Prerequisites
    Textbook
    Lecture Notes
    Homework Assignments and Solutions
    Useful Links
    Grading
    Information on Homework Assignments
    General Course Information

    Course Contents

    Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: Problem solving by search; and constraint satisfaction; alpha-beta search and games (e.g., chess) ; propositional; and first order logic; knowledge representation;
    planning; learning; reinforcement learning. (Each ';' represents about a week and a half)

    Prerequisite

    Required Textbook:

    Lecture notes

    Homework assignments and solutions


    Final Grade:

    Assignments 40%
    Midterm: 20%
    Final Exam: 40%

    Taking tests on alternative dates: at the discretion of the instructor. No makeups on exams.

    Assignments:

  • Problems and programming assignments will be assigned every 2-3 weeks.
    The due date for each assignment will be posted on this page on the Important Message Board.

  • Homework must be submitted by exactly 6:15pm (before class) on the due date.
    If it is submitted by 6:15pm the next day, you get 80%. If by 6:15pm the second day, you get 40%. No credit after that.

  • Each student must complete the assignments by himself or herself.
    You may discuss general issues, but not the specific problems assigned.
    ANY CODE OR TEXT YOU TAKE FROM THE INTERNET OR ELSEWHERE MUST BE CITED
    Collaboration on the homework, or using material without citation, will be considered a violation of the honor code.

  • All complaints and questions about the grading should be e-mailed within a week after grading.

    • Useful Links

    General Course Information


    Stevens Institute, Department of Computer Science
    Last Update: 08/31/09
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