• Offered by Research School of Computer Science
  • ANU College ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science
  • Classification Advanced
  • Course subject Computer Science
  • Areas of interest Computer Science, Information Technology
  • Academic career PGRD
  • Course convener
    • Dr Sylvie Thiebaux
  • Mode of delivery In Person
  • Co-taught Course
  • Offered in First Semester 2015
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Artificial intelligence is the science that studies and develops methods  of making computers more /intelligent/. The focus of this course is on  core AI techniques for knowledge representation, search, reasoning,  learning and designing intelligent agents. The course also aims to give  an overview of other topics within AI, such as for example robotics, and  of the historical, philosophical, and logical foundations of AI.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:

After completing this course, students should be able to:

  • Identify problems that are amenable to solution by AI methods, and which AI methods may be suited to solving a given problem.
  • Formalise a given problem in the language/framework of different AI methods (e.g., as a search problem, as a constraint satisfaction problem, as a planning problem, as a Markov decision process, etc).
  • Implement basic AI algorithms (e.g., standard search algorithms or dynamic programming).
  • Design and carry out an empirical evaluation of different algorithms on a problem formalisation, and state the conclusions that the evaluation supports.




Other Information

http://cs.anu.edu.au/student/comp3620/

Indicative Assessment

Assignments (50%), Final Examination (50%)

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Workload

Thirty three one-hour lectures, four tutorials and five laboratory sessions.

Prescribed Texts

Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig (2010) Artificial Intelligence. A Modern Approach.

Assumed Knowledge

Programming: knowledge and experience equivalent to completion of COMP1100/COMP1130 and COMP1110/COMP1140
Logic: knowledge and experience equivalent to completion of COMP2620 or COMP2600.





Specialisations

Fees

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Student Contribution Band:
2
Unit value:
6 units

If you are an undergraduate student and have been offered a Commonwealth supported place, your fees are set by the Australian Government for each course. At ANU 1 EFTSL is 48 units (normally 8 x 6-unit courses). You can find your student contribution amount for each course at Fees.  Where there is a unit range displayed for this course, not all unit options below may be available.

Units EFTSL
6.00 0.12500
Domestic fee paying students
Year Fee
2015 $3096
International fee paying students
Year Fee
2015 $4146
Note: Please note that fee information is for current year only.

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First Semester

Class number Class start date Last day to enrol Census date Class end date Mode Of Delivery Class Summary
1438 16 Feb 2015 06 Mar 2015 31 Mar 2015 29 May 2015 In Person N/A

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