20 CS 602: Programming for Artificial Intelligence

Course Number	20 CS 602
Credit Hours	2 Graduate
Prerequisites	Proficiency in programming
Catalog Data	Focus of this course is on teaching Logic and Functional paradigms of programming and their use for AI applications. PROLOG and LISP languages will be introduced and discussed from the perspective of program design, problem modeling, efficiency and performance criteria.
Textbooks	1. I. Bratko, PROLOG Programming for Artificial Intelligence, Addison Wesley. 2. D. S. Touretsky, Common LISP, Benjamin Cummings.
References	None
Prerequisites by Topic	1. Knowledge of basic mathematical concepts. 2. Recursion. 3. Experience with any other, but at least one programming language.
Goals	The goal of this course is to familiarize students with Logic and Functional Programming paradigms with specific programming example taken from the domain of artificial intelligence.
Topics	1. Introduction (approx. 2 classes) a) Logical and Functional Programming paradigms b) Suitability of these paradigms for AI applications. 2. Syntactic Structures of languages (approx. 14 classes) a) PROLOG b) LISP 3. AI Applications (approx. 3 classes) a) Search applications b) Natural language processing applications
Computer Usage	None
Labs	Approximately ten very small programming assignments will be given.
Prepared By	Raj Bhatnagar, Ph.D. on 2002/09/01