GCO7835

Artificial intelligence

(IT)

Not offered in 2000

6 points + Second semester + Distance + Prerequisites: GCO7823 + Prohibitions: CSC3091, RDT3691

Synopsis: Can machines think? The physical symbol system hypothesis; history of AI; the Turing test; languages of AI; the structure of Prolog; facts, rules, queries; instantiation and backtracking; list processing; depth-first and breadth-first searches; directed searches and the A* algorithm; knowledge representation; frames, scripts; expert systems; learning; genetic algorithms; neural networks; backpropagation.

Assessment: Examination (3 hours): 70% + Other assessment modes: 30%