Intelligent Systems

PhD Qualifying Exam Reading List

The AI and IS written PhD qualifying exam requires that each candidate be examined in a Overview Core and in two specialization areas. The reading lists below are intended to be comprehensive background material in each of these areas. In addition, material from the core graduate courses in each specialization area are presumed to have been read.

Core Reading List (Updated June 2009)

Speclization Areas:

• Robotics
• Perception
• Machine Learning
• Planning and Search (Updated June 2009)
• Cognitive Science
• Knowledge Representation, Reasoning, and Natural Language