Spring  Quarter 2005
Professor: Dr. Janusz Starzyk

Text

by Jeff Hawkins, Sandra Blakeslee, "On Intelligence"  ISBN: 0805074562, Times Books (October 3, 2004).

References

Rolf Pfeifer, Christian Scheier, "Understanding Intelligence", The MIT Press, ISBN: 026266125X, Sept. 1, 2001.

Rodney Brooks Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us, ISBN: 0375420797, Pantheon Books © February 2002.

Artificial Intelligence: a Modern Approach The Intelligent Agent Book by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig.
ISBN: 0-13-790395-2,  Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2003.
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~russell/aima.html

Course outline

Competition and self-organization
Bio Inspired Computing
Bio Inspired Architectures

Auto Associative and Hetero Associative Memories

Vogel Distributed Memories

SOLAR Architecture and Associative Learning
Building an Artificial Brain


Office hours

M,W 2-3, other hours by appointment. Office location - Stocker 347.
email: starzyk@bobcat.ent.ohiou.edu, phone 593-1580.

Grading

Grades will be based on the following;

Learning Software Project (35%)  
Please send email with your presentation slides and Matlab code.  
Modify name of the main program in Matlab to include main
    for instance UFO_main.m

Reseach Paper presentation (35%)
Submit your presentation slides via email

SOLAR Matlab simulation (30%)
Return description of results and comparison to a database from literature.

Examination

Final examination - Monday, June 6, at 10:10 p.m. 2005.
All examinations are take home project based tests.

Withdrawal

A student may withdraw from class at his discretion up to and including the first 21 days of the quarter.

Laboratory Work

Students will complete the programming exercises using Matlab. These do not need to require extensive programming; the focus will be on trying out various learning algorithms, not on elaborate programs.  I will allow time for students to present the results of these exercises in class as appropriate.