CS 6660 Intelligent Agents - Fall 2000

This is the home page for CS 6660, Intelligent Agents at the College of Computing of Georgia Institute of Technology. The instructor for this course is Ashok Goel, goel@cc.gatech.edu. The teaching assistant for this course is Bill Murdock, murdock@cc.gatech.edu.

Class Information

  • Class Introduction (Revised 8/29/00)
  • Schedule and Reading Assignments (Revised 11/16/00)
  • Guidelines for Formatting Class Notes

    Exams

    Projects

    Lecture Notes

  • Notes 1 (8/24/2000) Agent Designs
  • Notes 2 (8/29/2000) Action and Perception
  • Notes 3 (8/31/2000) Neural Networks
  • Notes 4 (9/5/2000) Genetic Algorithms
  • Notes 5 (9/7/2000): Representation and State
  • Notes 6 (9/12/2000) Vision Processing
  • Notes 7 (9/14/2000) Perception: Models and Scenes
  • Notes 8 (9/19/2000): Natural Language
  • Notes 9 (9/21/2000): Language and Grammar
  • Notes 10 (9/26/2000): FORTHCOMING
  • Notes 11 (9/28/2000): Memory and Activation
  • Notes 12 (10/3/2000): Search
  • Notes 13 (10/5/2000): Advanced Search Techniques
  • Notes 14 (10/10/2000): Goals and Operators
  • Notes 15 (10/12/2000): Logic
  • Notes 16 (10/17/2000): Planning
  • Notes 17 (10/19/2000): Topics and Themes of AI
  • Notes 18 (10/26/2000): Memory
  • Notes 19 (10/31/2000): FORTHCOMING
  • Notes 20 (11/2/2000): Cases and Representations
  • Notes 21 (11/7/2000): FORTHCOMING
  • Notes 22 (11/9/2000): FORTHCOMING
  • Notes 23 (11/14/2000): Probabilistic Reasoning
  • Notes 24 (11/16/2000): Utility Theory
  • Notes 25 (11/21/2000): Learning from Examples
  • Notes 26 (11/28/2000): Concept Learning
  • Notes 27 (11/30/2000): More Concept Learning
  • Notes 28 (12/5/2000): Analogy

    Links

    Below is a small and fairly random assortment of links on the subject of intelligent agents. None of the sites below are required reading for the class and, indeed, some may be pretty useless. However, if you have some spare time, browsing some of the links below might get you started thinking about some of the issues involved in intelligent agents.

    Research Groups and Projects

  • Intelligent Agents Project at IBM T.J. Watson Research
  • Adaptive Systems & Interaction Group at Microsoft Research
  • Remote Agent project at NASA Ames
  • Artificial Intelligence at Georgia Tech
  • Our own Reflective Evolutionary Mind (REM) Project

    Press

  • AgentNews Webletter
  • CNET article on Intelligent Agents
  • CNN article on Web Bots
  • USA Today clip on 'Shopping Bots'

    Reference

  • Encyclopedia Britannica article on Artificial Intelligence
  • An index of agents links

    The definition of intelligence

  • at Encarta World English Dictionary
  • at ARTFL Project: 1913 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  • at Wordsmyth

    The definition of agent

  • at Encarta World English Dictionary
  • at ARTFL Project: 1913 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  • at Wordsmyth
  • at the Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
  • at NASA Ames