Improving Instruction of Introductory Artificial Intelligence
Papers from the 1994 Fall Symposium
Marti Hearst, Program Chair
Technical Report FS-94-05. Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California
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Contents
Preface: Improving Instruction of Introductory AI
Marti A. Hearst / 1
An Undergraduate Introductory AI Course
Richard E. Korf / 5
Teaching Introductory AI from First Principles
Susan L. Epstein and Virginia Teller / 8
A Syllabus for Introductory AI
Matthew L. Ginsberg / 12
A Modern, Agent-Oriented Approach to Introductory Artificial Intelligence
Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig / 15
Evolutionary Artificial Intelligence
Nils J. Nilsson / 19
Teaching Graduate-Level Artificial Intelligence
Shlomo Zilberstein / 22
How Much AI Does a Cognitive Science Major Need to Know?
John Batali / 25
Algorithms: An Integrated Algorithm Analysis, Writing an Artificial Intelligence Course
James H. Martin / 28
Artificial Intelligence as the Liberal Arts of Computer Science
Lee Spector / 31
What Should a Graduate of AI-101 Be Expected to Know?
Haym Hirsh / 34
Intellectual Archeology
Pat Hayes and Ken Ford / 35
Introductory AI for Whom? Presenting AI to the Non-Scientist
Rebecca E. Skinner / 38
Is Programming Worthwhile?
Kurt Eiselt / 43
The Use of Computers for Teaching Artificial Intelligence at Rensselaer
Ellen L. Walker / 47
Teaching Introductory AI A Design Stance
Ashok Goel / 51
Undergraduate AI and its Non-Imperative Prerequisite
Deepek Kumar and Richard Wyatt / 55
Interactive Learning Tools for Statistical Reasoning with Uncertainty
Deborah A. Vastola and Ellen L. Walker / 58
Design-World: A Testbed of Communicative Action and Resource Limits
Marilyn A. Walker and Pamela Jordan / 63
Artificial Intelligence Meets Modern Computer Science
George F. Luger and William A. Stubblefield / 68
Combining Introductory Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
Andrea Pohoreckyj Danyluk / 73
Presenting AI to Non Ph.D-Bound Students
Frank Klassner / 75
Teaching Students with Practical Concerns
Jonathan Hodgson / 78
Introductory AI in the Informatics Curricula in Italy
Luigia Carlucci Aiello and Fiorella De Rosis / 79
The Artificial Intelligence Course at the Faculty of Computer Science in the Polytechnic University of Madrid
Asunción Gómez and Natalia Juristo / 81
A Consideration of Some Approaches to Course Organization
S. Rebecca Thomas / 86