The founding fathers

INSTRUCTOR: Varol Akman

OFFICE: EA503 or FA115B (mostly the latter); call x1537 or x3349 before your visit if you are in doubt

TEACHING ASSISTANT: Emre Şahin (iesahin@cs.bilkent.edu.tr)

LECTURES: Mon 8:40, 9:40; Wed 10:40

LECTURE ROOM: EB104

OFFICE HOURS

• Instructor: Mon 13:40, 14:40
• TA: tba

• Stuart Russell & Peter Norvig ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: A MODERN APPROACH (also known as AIMA) Prentice-Hall (2003) ***SECOND EDITION***
• Check out the AIMA code repository
• If you want a glimpse of what AI is all about, read McCarthy
• Here's another classic: How to do research at the MIT AI Lab

• Homework (60%)
• Midterm: open-book (20%). You cannot bring photocopies, handwritten notes or any other book. (Handwritten notes on the textbook -- that is, AIMA -- are okay.)
• Final: open-book (20%). Ditto.

• About AI (an amazingly good web site maintained by AAAI)
• HAL's Legacy
• Selmer Bringsjord's "The Intro to AI Show"
• An excellent demo of various search strategies (useful when studying Chs. 3 & 4 of AIMA)
• Other useful AI demos, projects, etc.

• Always bring your textbook to the class. You can take notes on your textbook (use the margins).
• Homework must be written using a document processing system. No handwritten stuff!
• If it is a programming homework attach all the code YOU have written and give pointers to the code you have REUSED (with slight modifications).
• Material should be submitted on the due date to the TA (and NOT to the instructor).
• Late submissions face a penalty: their values will be halved for each day after the deadline.
• Cheating, plagiarism, etc. will be severely punished and disciplinary action will be taken.