CS 6660 Intelligent Agents - Fall 2001

This is the home page for CS 6660, Intelligent Agents at the College of Computing of Georgia Institute of Technology .

Instructor

Ashok Goel

Teaching Assistant

Marty Geier

Class Information

  • Course Syllabus (Revised 8/25/01)
  • Schedule and Reading Assignments (Revised 08/25/01)

    Exams

    Projects





    • Lecture Notes

  • Notes 1 (8/22/2001) Agent Designs
  • Notes 2 (8/27/2001) Reactive Control
  • Notes 3 (8/29/2001) More Reactive Control & Neural Nets
  • Notes 4 (9/5/2001) Local Minimum and Network Examples
  • Notes 5 (9/10/2001) Multilayer Neural Networks & Genetic Algorithms
  • Notes 6 (9/12/2001) The Role of Memory
  • Notes 7 (9/17/2001) Abduction, Vision and Language
  • Notes 8 (9/19/2001) Models for Vision and Language - html , word
  • Notes 9 (9/24/2001) Constraints and Model- Based vision
  • Notes 10 (9/26/2001) Representations, Ambiguity and Case Grammers
  • Notes 11 (10/1/2001) Models for Natural Language and Vision
  • Notes 12 (10/3/2001) Scripts as applied to Language and Vision
  • Notes 13 (10/8/2001) Memories
  • Notes 14 (10/10/2001) Search Problems
  • Notes 15 (10/17/2001) Control Knowledge & Searching
  • Notes 16 (10/22/2001) Backtracking
  • Notes 17 (10/24/2001) Planning , In pdf
  • Notes 18 (10/29/2001) Production Systems and Forward Chaining
  • Notes 19 (10/31/2001) Expert Systems and Generalization
  • Notes 20 (11/5/2001) Case Based Reasoning
  • Notes 21 (11/7/2001) Midterm Exam Review
  • Notes 22 (11/12/2001) Induction, Prediction, and Decision Trees
  • Notes 23 (11/14/2001) Experimentation in AI & Induction
  • Notes 24 (11/19/2001) Models and Analogical Reasoning, Word
  • Notes 25 (11/21/2001) Learning by Analogy
  • Notes 26 (11/26/2001) - Probabalistic Algorithms, Bayes Theorem
  • Notes 27 (11/28/2001) - Bayes Theorem & Hidden Markov Models
  • Notes 28 (12/3/2001) - Hidden Markov Models/Probabilistic Models
  • Notes 29 (12/5/2001) - Reinforcement Learning & Class Summary

    • 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