CS 5800 - Artificial Intelligence

• Students will develop an appreciation of different philosophical, ethical, and religious viewpoints concerning computer simulation of thought processes.
• Students will develop the ability to construct a state space to represent a problem.
• Students will develop the ability to express real-world situations and relationships in predicate calculus.
• Students will develop the ability to interpret and evaluate propositional and predicate calculus statements.
• Students will develop the ability to navigate a state space to find a solution for a problem.
• Students will develop the ability to write simple LISP programs to use AI techniques in problem solving.
• Students will develop the ability to write simple Prolog programs to automate the solutions of problems expressed in predicate calculus.
• Students will gain a basic understanding of the process of designing, implementing, and testing domain appropriate heuristics.
• Students will gain an understanding of A* search.
• Students will gain an understanding of minimax and alpha beta pruning.
• Students will gain an understanding of the history, interdisciplinary foundations, and goals of AI.
• Students will gain an understanding of the production system model for control and implementation of state space search.
• Students will gain an understanding of unification and backtracking search.
• Students will gain knowledge of current research thrusts in AI.
• Students will gain knowledge of how AI is used in current applications.