Pawan Lingras

Date Due: Week 3

Choose any seven artificial intelligence topics of your interest (or the ones that you find least boring). Write half a page (double spaced, 12 point Roman) of summary for each of the topics.

Pawan Lingras

Date Due: Week 4

Surf the internet to find a genetic algorithm demonstration. One possible suggestion:

http://ssibm4.ssp.ameslab.gov/~deaven/GA/ga.html

Describe in your own words what the algorithm is trying to achieve. Run the program. Describe the nature of your experiments and analysis of results.

Pawan Lingras

Date Due: Week 5

From your text book, write down first order logic sentences for English sentences given problem 9.4(a-f). Convert them to Horn clause forms. Write and run Prolog program to answer the question "Is Charlie a mammal?". Using a diagram similar to Figure 9.7, show how the resolution procedure arrived at this conclusion.

Pawan Lingras

Date Due: Week 7

Study one artificial intelligence topic. Write 3-4 pages long (double spaced, 12 point Roman) essay on the topic. The essay should include somewhat detailed introduction to the topic and a history of research directions (with emphasis on the current research).