BUS 3850 - Topics in Artificial Intelligence

• Demonstrate an understanding of the principles of formal logic, including propositional and first order logic, inference, rule-based deduction, and resolution
• Solve problems using search techniques such as depth-first, breadth-first, forward chaining, backward chaining, heuristic search, and adversarial search
• Understand game theory and game-playing strategies using AI, such as Minimax search, alpha-beta pruning, and back propagation of errors
• Use tools and techniques common in AI for discovery, including Jupyter Notebooks, the Python programming language, and neural network frameworks such as Keras, PyTorch, and TensorFlow
• Understand the application of machine learning and deep neural networks to discovery of new knowledge and information

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• Introduction to AI
• History and milestones in AI systems
• Knowledge representation
  • Rules, objects, algorithms, networks, simulations
    • Production systems, forward and backward chaining, certainty factors
    • Formal logic, clausal form, resolution
• Search
  • Defining the search space
    • Trees, decision trees, game trees, graphs
  • Search algorithms
    • Breadth-first, depth-first and uniform cost search
  • Adversarial search
    • Minimax, A*, α-β pruning, shortest path algorithms
• Python and Jupyter Notebook basics
• Python programming language essentials
  • Expressions, operators, functions, lambdas
  • Objects, lists, tuples, dictionaries, sets
  • Libraries used in AI and data science
    • NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, SciKit Learn, Keras, PyTorch, TensorFlow
• Machine Learning
  • Supervised learning
    • Regression methods, classification methods
  • Unsupervised learning
    • Clustering methods
• Deep learning
  • Neural networks
    • Perceptrons, feed forward and back propagation algorithms, cost functions, error surfaces, gradient descent
  • Convolutional and recurrent neural networks,
• Applications of AI
  • Game theory
  • Computer vision (image processing)
  • Natural language processing