ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: PROBLEM SOLVING, REPRESENTATION AND LEARNING

Welcome to the website for 15-381 for the semester of Spring 2003. This website is viewed best at 1024 x 768. Use the top frame to navigate to mentioned sections. General course info is given below.

Instructor: Jaime Carbonell, jgc@cs.cmu.edu, NSH 5409

TAs: Maxim Likhachev, likhachev@cs.cmu.edu, WeH 8130
Joao Sousa, jpsousa@cs.cmu.edu, WeH 3108
Jing Xiao, xiaoj@cs.cmu.edu, Smith Hall 216
Andy Yang, ayang@andrew.cmu.edu, WeH 3108

Admin: Eleanor Cambridge, eleanorc@cs.cmu.edu, NSH 4517

Class Time: Tu-Th 1:30-2:50pm
Class Location: WeH 7500

Textbook: Russell & Norvig, "Artificial Intelligence," available at the CMU bookstore.

BBOARD: cmu.cs.class.cs381

Course Mechanics

Grading:
Homeworks (total) 20%
Mini-project 40%
Midterm 15%
Final 25%

Exams:
Midterm and Final are semi-open book. Each student can bring up to 5 sheets of notes and a calculator, but NO laptop, books, lecture notes, cellphone, etc.

Homework:
Both assignments will be handed out appoximately 2 weeks prior to their respective due dates. The first will be a programming assignment. The second will be a problem set. The homework handin directory is located at: /afs/cs/academic/class/15381-s03/handin/hw1/with subfolders for each student's userid. Each of those folders contain subfolders for each assignment.

MiniProject:
The focus this semester will be on the MiniProject. Students will work in teams of two or three on any one of the project topics that will be offered. You can select your own partner(s). Each person in the group is expected to contribute equally.

Honor policy: Copying and any form of undocumented collaboration will be considered cheating and will result in failing the course. However, requesting help from other students, TAs, other AI people, etc is acceptable so long as that help is clearly documented when you hand in your assignment. We will take that help into account while grading, usually in a minor way. "Help" does not include someone doing the problems for you entirely, though. It is far better to complete an assignment with help than to fail to do so or turn it in later than the late policy. You are on your honor to produce the appropriate documentation.

Late policy: You have 5 late days in total for homework and mini-project, without penalty. In other words, if you hand in the first homework 2 days late, you will have 3 days late in aggregate for the remaining homework. For the mini-project, we will take the average number of remaining late dates, rounded up to the nearest integer for the two team members. Once you have used up your late days, we will not accept late homework or mini-project. Remember that since you have about 2 weeks for each homework, there is plenty of opportunity to hand it in on time. It is wise to save late days for the end-of-semester crunch we all seem to experience. (Weekend late days count too: the hand-in directory records hand-in dates.)

For any problems/suggestions please contact Andy Yang. A brief description of contents of each section of the website is given below:
 

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