Phil Chan
242 Engineering Complex, 674-7280

Office Hours: MW 1-3pm (or by appointment)

Syllabus

Assignments (Submit Server)

• HW1
• HW2
• Term Paper (CSE 5290) [resources]

Lecture Notes

• AI Landscape
• AI in Chess
  • Video: Deep Blue beat G. Kasparov in 1997
  • Deep Blue at IBM Research
  • A history of Computer Chess
• The Great Robot Race, NOVA, PBS
• Robocup 2008
• Intro to Common Lisp
• Ch1
• Ch2
• Ch3
• Ch4a, Ch4b
• Ch6 (Slide show from Computer History Museum)

Common LISP

• CLISP
  • Downloading CLISP
    • Win32
    • Linux: search for clisp at rpmfind.net
    • MacOS X
• Lamkins (2004). Successful Lisp: How to Understand and Use Common Lisp. bookfix.com. Online version: http://psg.com/~dlamkins/sl/
• Other books
  • Good book: Graham (1995). ANSI Common Lisp. Prentice Hall.
  • Easier (free) book: Touretzky (1989). Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation. Benjamin/Cummings.
  • Harder (free) book: Graham (1993). On Lisp. Prentice Hall.
  • List of LISP books, some are free

Resources

• AI in the news at AAAI
• AI in the Computing Experience: Challenges and Opportunities, Bill Gates' keynote speech at IJCAI, 2001
• AAAI Video Archive
• CutePDF Writer (generating PDF files)
• Document conversion service at CERN