Section 001. Fall 2014
Syllabus
Instructor
Dr. Pei Wang
OFFICE: Room 347, Science Education and Research Center (SERC)
ADDRESS: CIS Department, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122
PHONE: (215)204-9255 (during office hours)
EMAIL: pei.wang@temple.edu
Office Hours in Fall 2014: Monday/Friday 11am-Noon, Monday 4-5pm, and by appointment
Time/Place
Class: Monday/Friday 9:30 - 10:50 am, Tuttleman Learning Center 0401B
Lab: Wednesday 9:00 - 10:50 am, Science Ed and Research Ctr 00204
Prerequisites and Description
See the
Detailed
Course Information at the university website.
Course Objective
- For certain mature and commonly used AI techniques, this course will go into
details to the extent that the students will be able to apply the knowledge
to solve practical problems. This category will mainly include
knowledge representation, reasoning, search, and directly related topics. Most of
them will be covered in the first half of the semester.
- In the second half of the semester, the course will go through the other major AI
fields, and introduce the problems, major methods, current situation, and so
on, without going into technical details.
- Prolog will be taught and used through the whole course, and the students
are expected to be able to use the language for various tasks after taking
this course.
- Since most activities in AI are research-oriented, this course will introduce
basic research skills. In the lectures, many issues will be
addressed where the best solution is still unknown, and the students are
encouraged to explore various possibilities. Finally, the students will
go through a complete (though simplified) research cycle in the course
project.
Textbook
Main Textbook:
Artificial Intelligence: Foundations of Computational Agents, Cambridge University Press, 2010,
by David Poole and Alan Mackworth, online eBook
Additional online materials will be linked from the course website
Schedule
See course website at
http://www.cis.temple.edu/~pwang/3203-AI/3203-index.htm
Grading
- Exams: 40% (mid-term 15%, final 25%, both will be open book/note)
- Lab: 20% (3-4 Prolog assignments, in the first half of the semester)
- Project: 40% (individual or teamwork, paper or program, in the second half of the semester)
- Additional Reward/Punishment: up to +/- 5%, based on participation
Policies and Rules
- Attendance to all lectures, labs, and examinations is required. Late
arrival or early leaving are not allowed except in special situations.
- No eating, talking, sleeping during the lectures.
- No usage of cell phones during the lectures.
- For the last days to drop or withdraw, check the Academic
Calendar.
- Students should be familiar with the
University statement on academic honesty
- Any student who has a need for accommodation based on the impact of a
documented disability, including special accommodations for access to
technology resources and electronic instructional materials required for the
course, should contact me privately to discuss the specific situation by the end of
the second week of classes or as soon as practical. If you have not done so
already, please contact Disability Resources and Services (DRS) at 215-204-1280
in 100 Ritter Annex to learn more about the resources available to you. We will
work with DRS to coordinate reasonable accommodations for all students with
documented disabilities.
- A statement on the Student and Faculty Academic Rights and Responsibilities
Policy (#03.70.02), such as: Freedom to teach and freedom to learn are
inseparable facets of academic freedom. The University has a policy on Student
and Faculty and Academic Rights and Responsibilities (Policy #03.70.02) which
can be accessed through
the link.