CS 461 - Artificial Intelligence

Units: 3
Intelligence as computation, rational agent architecture, state spaces, breadth-first and depth-first search, heuristic search, A* algorithm, game playing, hill-climbing and optimization, neural networks, knowledge representation, production systems, machine learning techniques, introduction to Lisp and Scheme. Programming projects.

Prerequisites: CS 301 with grade C- or better.
Equivalent Quarter Course: CS 4810.
Possible Instructional Methods: Entirely On-ground, or Entirely Online, or Hybrid.
Grading: A-F grading only.
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Author creative and robust programs in Lisp or Scheme;
Utilize various state space and heuristic search algorithms to solve complex problems;
Represent domain knowledge in propositional and first-order logic; 3. Develop production systems to reason about problems with incomplete or uncertain information;
Apply machine learning algorithms to real-world problems.