COMP 221 - Fall 2009

Fall 2009, COMP 221 Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence [3-1-0:3]
Lecture 1, WF 15:00-16:20, Rm 2463
Prof. Dekai WU, Rm 3539, 2358-6989, dekai@cs.ust.hk

Tutorial 1A TA: Jackie LO Chi-kiu, Th 18:00-18:50, Rm 4214, jackielo@cs.ust.hk

You are welcome to knock on the door of the instructor any time. The TAs' office hours are posted at http://course.cs.ust.hk/comp221/ta/.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Welcome to COMP221! Tutorials will begin after Week 2.

Always check the Discussion Forum for up-to-the-minute announcements.

Discussion forum is at http://comp151.cse.ust.hk/~dekai/content/?q=forum/3. Always read before asking/posting/emailing your question. This forum is based on modern, powerful software, instead of using the old clunky ITSC newsgroup.
Course home page is at http://www.cs.ust.hk/~dekai/221/.
Tutorial info is at http://course.cs.ust.hk/comp221/ta/.

ORIENTATION

Academic Calendar Description

COMP 221. Foundations underlying design of intelligent systems. Relations between logical, statistical, cognitive, biological paradigms; basic techniques for heuristic search, theorem proving, knowledge representation, adaptation; applications in vision, language, planning, expert systems. Prerequisite: COMP 171/171H

TEXTBOOKS

HONOR POLICY

To receive a passing grade, you are required to sign an honor statement acknowledging that you understand and will uphold all policies on plagiarism and collaboration.

Plagiarism

All materials submitted for grading must be your own work. You are advised against being involved in any form of copying (either copying other people's work or allowing others to copy yours). If you are found to be involved in an incident of plagiarism, you will receive a failing grade for the course and the incident will be reported for appropriate disciplinary actions.

University policy requires that students who cheat more than once be expelled. Please review the cheating topic from your UST Student Orientation.

Warning: sophisticated plagiarism detection systems are in operation!

Collaboration

You are encouraged to collaborate in study groups. However, you must write up solutions on your own. You must also acknowledge your collaborators in the write-up for each problem, whether or not they are classmates. Other cases will be dealt with as plagiarism.

GRADING

The course will be graded on a curve, but no matter what the curve is, I guarantee you the following.

If you achieve 85% you will receive at least a A grade.
75% B
65% C
55% D

Your grade will be determined by a combination of factors:

Midterm exam ~20%
Final exam ~25%
Participation ~5%
Assignments ~50%

Examinations

No reading material is allowed during the examinations. No make-ups will be given unless prior approval is granted by the instructor, or you are in unfavorable medical condition with physician's documentation on the day of the examination. In addition, being absent at the final examination results in automatic failure of the course according to university regulations, unless prior approval is obtained from the department head.

There will be one midterm worth approximately 20%, and one final exam worth approximately 25%.

Participation

Science and engineering (including software engineering!) is about communication between people. Good participation in class and/or the online forum will count for approximately 5%.

Assignments

All assignments must be submitted by 23:00 on the due date. Scheme programming assignments must run under Chicken Scheme on Linux. Assignments will be collected electronically using the automated CASS assignment collection system. Late assignments cannot be accepted. Sorry, in the interest of fairness, exceptions cannot be made.

Programming assignments will account for a total of approximately 50%.

Tutorials

All information for tutorials is at http://course.cs.ust.hk/comp221/ta/.

SYLLABUS



dekai@cs.ust.hk
Last updated: 2009.10.14