CMSC 671 Fall 2001

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CMSC 671Fall 2001

• Class 15 Tuesday, October 23

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The Breadth of AIA Lecture on Diversity
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What is AI?

• Intensional definitions describe the end goals
  and objectives of the discipline
• Searle, McCarthy, Ginsberg, etc. definitions
  from HW 1
• Extensional definition define the field as what
  people who say theyre doing AI do

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What do AI people do?

• Subject headings from IJCAI-01 conference
  proceedings
• Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
• Search, Satisfiability, and Constraint
  Satisfaction
• Cognitive Modeling
• Planning
• Games
• Diagnosis
• Logic Programming and Theorem Proving
• Uncertainty and Probabilistic Reasoning
• Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms
• Machine Learning and Data Mining
• Case-Based Reasoning
• Multi-Agent Systems
• Natural Language Processing and Information
  Retrieval
• Robotics and Perception
• Web Applications

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Other topics/paradigms

• Intelligent Tutoring Systems
• Agent Architectures
• Mixed-Initiative Systems
• Embedded Systems / Mobile Autonomous Agent
• Machine Learning
• Reinforcement learning
• Collaborative learning, inductive transfer,
  lifelong learning
• Uncertainty
• POMDPs, temporal BNs, dynamic/object-oriented BNs
• Object-Oriented Software Engineering
• AI and Art

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Machine Translation
Yue's turn
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Statistical NLP
Take it away, Akshay
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Intelligent Tutoring Systems
And now a word from Xuanxuan...
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XML/Semantic Web
Last but not least Ritesh!