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Jack Baskin School of EngineeringUC Santa Cruz

CMPS 240 - Artificial Intelligence - Spring 2008

General Class Information


The Turk

 

  • Instructor: Professor Robert Levinson, [levinson AT soe.ucsc.edu], x2087
  • Grader: Colin Southwood [colinsouthwood AT yahoo.com]
  • Lectures: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 12-1:45PM, Merril 03
  • Office Hours: Wed. 4-6PM E2-255, or by appointment (Also after class in Crown lab/study area)
  • Newsgroup: ucsc.class.cmp240 [read-only web version][off campus access]
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Class Material

Required Reading
  • AI: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig. Prentice Hall, Second Edition. 2003 ISBN 0-13-790395-2, Webpage: http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/
  • ET: Jaynes, E.T. and G. Larry Brethorstt Probability Theory: Logic of Science. Cambridge Press 2003
  • CH: the UCSC Reader by Chris Harrison: Determining Satisfiability Through Subtraction And a Binary Constrained XOR Form (BXCF).

References

  • Rich, Elaine, Knight, Kevin, Artificial Intelligence., Second Edition. McGraw-Hill Book Co.,New York,1990.
  • David Stirzaker, Elementary Probability , Cambridge University Press - 1994.
  • Dana Ballard, An Introduction to Natural Computation, The MIT Press, 1997.