Readings

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Intelligent Systems

Our text this semester will be the third edition of Peter Jackson's Introduction to Expert Systems (Addison Wesley, 1999). Jackson does a fairly good job of discussing knowledge-based systems from the perspective of tasks and methods. I may augment his material throughout the semester in class and with an occasional handout.

If You Have Never Had AI

If you have not had a course in artificial intelligence, I suggest the following, in addition to the assigned reading schedule:

• Read Chapter 2, on the history of AI, during Week 1 along with Chapter 1. See me to discuss any ideas that are foreign or that need clarification.

• Devote extra attention to your study of the early chapters, especially Chapter 3 (knowledge representation), and Chapters 5-9 (knowledge representation techniques).

You may also want to consider checking a good AI text out of the library to use as a reference. Please contact me if I can ever be of more assistance!

Tentative Reading Schedule

This schedule is tentative for two reasons. One, I may want to change the suggested order of your readings based on what we do in class, what you choose to do for a project, and so on. Two, you may want to change the suggested order of your readings based on what we do in class, what you choose to do for a project, and so on. Because I won't be directly testing you on this material, the order in which you read it and the care that you show it will depend largely on your own decisions.

Week   Dates             Topics

01     01/15 - 01/17     Chapters 1,2
02     01/22 - 01/24     Chapter 10
03     01/29 - 01/31   	 Chapter 11
04     02/05 - 02/07   	 Chapter 12
05     02/12 - 02/14     Chapter 16
06     02/19 - 02/21     Chapter 14
07     02/26 - 02/28     Chapter 15
08     03/05 - 03/07     Chapter 17
09     03/12 - 03/14     Chapter 18
       03/19 - 03/21                  SPRING BREAK
10     03/26 - 03/28     Chapter 22
11     04/02 - 04/04     Chapter 24
12     04/09 - 04/11     Chapters 4,7
13     04/16 - 04/18     No reading
14     04/23 - 04/25     No reading
15     04/30 - 05/02     No reading