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The intelligence thread is concerned with top-to-bottom computational models of intelligence. To this end, we emphasize designing and implementing artifacts that exhibit various levels of intelligence as well as understanding and modeling natural cognitive agents such as humans, ants, or bees. Students acquire the technical knowledge and skills necessary for expressing, specifying, understanding, creating, and exploiting computational models that represent cognitive processes. The thread prepares students for fields as diverse as artificial intelligence, machine learning, perception, and cognitive science, as well as for fields that benefit from applications of techniques from those fields.

The student who pursues intelligence can combine it with devices to become a roboticist, or people to build adaptive interfaces, or with media to build smart and adaptive entertainment, or ....

Intelligence
Early Preparation	Combinatorics Numerical Methods Linear Algebra Probability, Statistics, Information Theory Discrete structures, graph theory Object-oriented design and programming
Knowledge Goals	Reasoning with uncertainty Reasoning on action and change Heuristic methods for solving problem that are difficult or impractical to solve with other methods Techniques for handling high-dimensional spaces Modeling Static vs Dynamic worlds
Skill Outcomes	Able to implement a variety of pattern recognition and control algorithms, and understanding the applicability of each Able to build fast approximation algorithms when necessary for dealing with otherwise impractical problems, such as those dealing with streams of high dimensional data or large search spaces Able to develop autonomous systems in a variety of domains

Resources and Role Models

If you are following one of the BSCS Threads study plans implemented before Summer 2008 or one of the BSCS study plans that were in place prior to Threads, click here.

Required Courses (For Students in the Program of Study that begins Summer 2008)

Must take PSYC 1101 as one of the Social Sciences electives

CS1050 Understanding and Constructing Proofs, 3
CS1301 Introduction to Computing and Programming, 3
CS1331 Introduction to Object-oriented Programming, 3
CS1332 Data structures and algorithms, 3
CS2110 Computing organization and programming, 4
CS2340 Objects and Design, 3
CS3510 Design and analysis of algorithms, 3
CS3600 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, 3

Pick 1 of Computational Complexity:

CS3240 Languages and Computation, 3
CS4510 Automata and Complexity Theory, 3

Pick 1 of Embodied Intelligence:

CS3630 Robotics and Perception, 3
CS3790 Introduction to Cognitive Science, 3
PSY3040 Sensation and Perception, 3

Pick 2 of Approaches to Intelligence:

CS4634 Knowledge-based AI, 3
CS4641 Machine Learning, 3
CS4495 Computer Vision, 3

Elective Courses (pick and choose whatever courses you wish)

Free Electives (6 hours)

FREE-INT1 Free Elective-Intelligence, 3
FREE-INT2 Free Elective-Intelligence, 3

Knowledge-Based Intelligence

CS3790 Introduction to Cognitive Science, 3
CS4615 Modeling and Design, 3
CS4634 Knowledge-based AI, 3
CS4650 Natural Language Understanding, 3

Data-Driven Intelligence

CS4641 Machine Learning, 3
CS4616 Pattern Recognition, 3
MATH4280 Introduction to Information Theory, 3

Intelligent Systems

CS4495 Computer Vision, 3
CS4632 Advanced Intelligent Robotics, 3
CS3651 The Art of Building Intelligent Appliances, 4 (requires ECE 2031)
CS4625 Intelligent and Interactive Systems, 3
CS4731 Game AI, 3
CS4610 Knowledge Systems, 3

Philosophical Issues in Intelligence

CS4793 Perspectives in Cognitive Science, 3
CS4752 Philosophical Issues in Computation, 3