Object-Oriented Programming for Artificial Intelligence CSCI 322

Course Syllabus

What are we trying to do?! Make machines reason. For example at Nasa

Course contents

Class Mailing list

notes for Fall 1999

labs for Fall 1999

Where to submit labs (if you haven't submitted yet, look at the lab page once more to make my life easier :-)

• Off-site people - getting accounts here and make a quick webpage, or this page might be helpful too
• For ftp, this page will be helpful ... for the LISP stuff ignore the material about jars

Previous work in AI programming on this page. The web page from that course

AI programming resources

• code for our Winston LISP text but it is not all of the code. From Chris Stoumbos who kept looking :-) "I stumbled across a note on page 613 under "Software", and sent an email with the subject "help" to lisp3@ai.mit.edu." He received this reply for a better source of the code
• While looking for an online version of Guy Steele's Common Lisp The Language book, I came across this page which I thought was pretty funny.
  • In the meantime, I found it in the CMU AI repository . Very cool. Thanks for mentioning it Alex! It is in html format so a look at the Contents page and the index can direct you to what you might want. Very nice!
• Artificial Intelligence Programming Second Edition by Charniak, Riesbeck, McDermmott and Meehan, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1987
• The Elements of Artificial Intelligence Using Common Lisp, Second Edition, Steve Tanimoto with the code
• AI programming resources page
• The CMU AI Repository
  • Expert Systems Information
  • and the more general AI Software Packages

Possibly helpful notes from web sources, my AI classes, etc.

• AI on the Web
• Jeff Stoner's LISP resource page
• UCLA Statistics LISP page who would have thought?! And their XLISP stuff (XLISP is the free version of LISP that has been around forever)
• my AI web page
• CSCI 223 Artificial Intelligence.
  For macs and PC's the pictures show up from this page better.
• CSCI 323 Advanced Artificial Intelligence

Possibly helpful books

• General AI
  • AI overview
  • "An Introduction to Expert Systems", Peter Jackson, Addison-Wesley, 1999. This is a very good Expert System book which gives examples and discusses strategies. I will use it in the CSCI 222 class next semester (offered over satellite). (In reality I have only used the second edition (1990) but I am sure the third edition is good so I am getting it to look at as well)
  • Peter Norvig's page and books
    • "Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming : Case Studies in Common Lisp", Peter Norvig, 1992 and code for the book
    • "Artificial Intelligence : A Modern Approach", Stuart J. Russell, Peter Norvig, Prentice Hall Series in Artificial Intelligence, 1995 and code for the book
  • "Object-Oriented Programming in LISP: A Programmer's Guide to CLOS", Sonya E.Keene, Addison Wesley, 1988
• Neural Nets and Genetic Algorithms: see also my CSCI 323 notes on these
  Genetic Algorithms
  • Genetic Programming : On the Programming of Computers by Means of Natural Selection (Complex Adaptive Systems) by John R. Koza, 1992
  • Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization and Machine Learning by David Goldberg, 1989
  Neural Nets
  • First - some Neural Net Simulation Tools
  • Artificial Neural Networks shareware and freeware
  • Wasserman, P. (1989). Neural Computing: Theory and Practice, 1989
  • Nelson, M. and Illingworth, W. (1991). A Practical Guide to Neural Nets, 1991
  "bibles" in the area
  • Parallel Distributed Processing, Rumelhart, J., McClelland, J. and the PDP Research Group (Eds.), 1986
  • Introduction to the Theory of Neural Computation by Hertz, Krogh and Palmer, 1991
• Agents
  • Speech Understanding was one of the first projects that saw the need for modularization and hence the use of agents.
    In 1980 the project HEARSAY used Blackboard agents (Knowledge Sources) and agenda history
  • what is an agent
    Software Agents: An Overview
    An introduction to agents JavaWorld (not necessarily intelligent...just agents)
  • AAAI Agent page and links (and another address AITopics agents in case one doesn't work) (example link book chapter on agents),
  • AgentWeb: Quite a collection of nice agent links at UMBC
  • Agent-based Intelligent Reactive Environments at MIT and The Intelligent Software Agents Lab at CMU
  • How to Make Software Agents Do the Right Thing: An Introduction to Reinforcement Learning by Satinder Singh, Peter Norvig, and David Cohn
  • mobile agents : D'Agents at Dartmouth, Computer Security Resource Center , used to be a good page still around?
  • links , more links and one more
  • internet imposters Julia (a Mud robot)
  • Is it an Agent, or just a Program?: A Taxonomy of Autonomous Agents
  • My paper showing work with Jini and agents (this is in Word ...sorry)