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ArsDigita University Curriculum - Artificial Intelligence course taught by Patrick Winston. Lecture #1 (of 4): AI Overview, Rule-Based Expert Systems and Knowledge Engineering.

Description: ArsDigita University Curriculum: "The curriculum was modeled on the undergraduate CS program at MIT. Several of the courses were straightforward adoptions of MIT courses. A few were specifically designed for the program, which was roughly in line with the ACM's 2001 Model Curricula for Computing."

Patrick Henry Winston. Instructor for "Banzai AI", a field in which he has been a pioneer. Patrick is the author of six undergraduate computer science textbooks, including Artificial Intelligence. Winston is renowned for his teaching of 6.034 at MIT and for his teaching of 'How to Speak' during IAP. He is the past president of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence [now the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence] and former director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Winston has a PhD in computer science from MIT."

Date of Video: June 4, 2001
Color. Sound. Length (min:sec): 95:57.
Copyright Info: Released under the Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike license.

SEE > http://www.aduni.org/FAQ/#redist1

Interesting Clips:
  • 0:00 - 16:15 Why study AI; How AI will make you smarter; course goals; overview of lectures; definitions of AI
  • 8:10 Representations are AI's "red thread"
  • 19:33 History of the field & timeline
  • 29:40 - 34:46 AI inside: AI buried in systems is, as Esther Dyson observed, "like raisins in a loaf of raisin bread"
  • 36:09 Rule-Based Expert Systems & Knowledge Engineering
  • 58:00 Forward Chaining
    • 78:36 Backward Chaining
  • 61:05 Winograd's Blocks World: how it works (program structure)
  • 78:12 Rule Shells
  • 89:27 Constraint defined
Location of Original: ADU? Note: DVD available, see http://www.aduni.org/drives/
Comments: RealPlayer 187.9 MB ftp://ftp.aduni.org/videos/09_lect_01.rm

Links to all 4 lectures and courseware, including syllabus and problem sets, can be accessed at http://www.aduni.org/courses/ai/index.php?view=cw

Contributor: Jon Glick
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