CSCI 440/540
Artificial Intelligence
Fall, 2007

COURSE PAGE web.stcloudstate.edu/bajulstrom/cs440/home-f07.html

Time and place: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:30 - 10:45 a.m., in ECC-135.

Text: Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, Second Edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall/Pearson Education, 2003.

Assignments and projects are due at the beginning of class on their due dates. Work handed in late will be penalized.

• Assignment 1. Representations in two puzzles. Due Thursday, September 27.

• Project 1. Designing, implementing, and documenting a program to play animal checkers. Due Tuesday, October 23.

• Project 2. Designing, implementing, and documenting a program to find a box in a sequence of digitized images. Due Thursday, December 6.

Exams: There will be one hour exam during the course and a comprehensive final exam. The exam dates are:

• Hour exam - Tuesday, October 16.
• Final exam - Tuesday, December 18, 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.

Exams will be based on the notes. Calculators will be neither necessary nor allowed. Make-up exams will be given only for documented emergencies and with prior notice. Rides home, airplane flights, hunting season, and wedding rehearsals do not constitute emergencies. Plan ahead.

Grading: Grades will be based on your projects and exams in these proportions:

Attendance: You are responsible for knowing what happens at each class meeting, and that is most easily and efficiently accomplished by being there. The instructor will NOT repeat a presentation just for you.

Decorum: Conduct yourself so as not to distract others. In particular:

• Arrive for class on time, and be ready to begin. If you must be late, be quiet.
• If you are early, sit toward the middle of a row.
• Do not engage in distracting activities like reading a newspaper or sleeping.
• Turn off all cell phones and similar devices.
• Do not start packing up before class ends.

Academic honesty: Using other people's words or ideas as if they were your own in written work, including programs, is theft, known in this case as plagiarism. Do not do it. Getting other people's answers for exams is cheating. Do not do it. Both are very serious, and will result in a grade of zero on the work in question, probably an F in the course, and possibly other disciplinary actions.

• If anyone has a disability that may require modification of seating, testing, or some other feature of the course, please see Dr. Julstrom after class or during his office hours.

• Please bring any complaints to Dr. Julstrom.