Course Description from the University Catalog

CS 6271 - Artificial Intelligence I
Credits: 3.00
A study of symbolic artificial intelligence. The course includes application and survey of problem-solving methods in artificial intelligence with emphasis on heuristic programming, production systems, simple robotic systems, and ethical and professional implications of intelligent systems.
Lecture: 2.00 Lab: 2.00
College: College of Arts and Sciences
Department: Computer Science
Pre-requisites: See hard copy catalog for pre-requisites.


Course Information

Course Syllabus
Course Page on the UWG CS Course Web (Moodle)

Course Summary

The following topics were covered in this course:
  • Introduction and History
  • Lisp
    • Functions
    • Recursion
  • Knowledge Representation
    • Pros Shell
    • Expert Systems
    • Clips
    • Production Systems
  • Searches
    • Visual Representations
      • Nets
      • Trees
    • Types
      • Blind
      • Heuristically Informed (path)
      • Heuristically Informed (optimal path)
      • Game Playing
  • Social and Ethical Implications

Course Assessment

From the syllabus:

Learning Objectives
  1. Define AI and summarize majors arguments in the field. [Bloom: 2]
  2. Describe milestones in the history of the field of artificial intelligence. [Bloom: 2]
  3. Discuss the study of the field of artificial intelligence. [Bloom: 2]
  4. Use artificial intelligence techniques/applications to solve problems. [Bloom: 3]
  5. Use LISP to implement solutions to problems. [Bloom: 3]
  6. Examine ethical and professional implications of intelligent systems. [Bloom: 3]

Completed Objectives?
Yes.  All of the learning objectives listed above were satisfied in this course.  See the course summary for more details.  I learned a great deal about searches and about the Lisp programming language, a language I hope to never use again, and this course was generally a good experience.  I had hoped that the course would have made it to the point of using and programming robots, but unfortunately that did not happen.  Dr. Abunawass is very knowledgable about this filed of computer science and it was a pleasure to have learned so much from him.


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