Course Description

• How to add and use “intelligence” in computer programs.
  • What is “intelligence”? Err
• More technically, knowledge representation (data structures) and manipulation (algorithms).
  • Also known as symbolic computation or approximate computation.

Objectives

• Learn basic techniques of knowledge representation and manipulation.

Instructor

• Richard Clayton, HH 318 (the adjunct’s office).
  • rclayton@monmouth.edu
• Office hours Mondays and Wednesdays, 5 to 5:50, in HH 318.
  • Other times by appointment or when you can grab me.

Grading

• Grading comes from tests (50%) and programming assignments (50%).
  • Straight, unweighted average.

Textbook

• Pick your own textbook.
  • But make sure you have one.

E-Mail

• The class e-mail is 11fa_CS52050.
• E-mail is stored in a web-accessible hyper-mail archive.
  • Unless requested not to.

Home Page

• The class home page is

  http://www.monmouth.edu/~rclayton/web-pages/f11-520/index.html

  • Or http://tinyurl.com/mucs520f11h (note the ‘h’).
• The class schedule is

  http://www.monmouth.edu/~rclayton/web-pages/f11-520/schedule.html

  • Or http://tinyurl.com/mucs520f11s (note the ‘s’).

Screencasts

• Lectures will recorded and be made available somehow.
  • Details to follow.

Microblogging

• Follow mucs520 on Twitter or Identi.ca.
  • Twitter: twitter.com/mucs520
  • Identi.ca: identi.ca/mucs520
• Both services carry the same messages.

Assistance

• See me if you need special assistance.
  • If you know what I’m talking about, you know what to do.
  • If you don’t know what I’m talking about, it doesn’t matter.

Attendance

• I have no attendance policy for lectures; you may attend them or not.
  • However, you are responsible for everything that goes on during lectures.
• I expect good attendance for other parts of the course, tests in particular.

Cheating

• Cheating is not doing your own work.
  • Copying assignments, copying test answers is cheating.

Grade Complaints

• I encourage students to question their grades.
• But
  1. I only argue about answers.
  2. You have a limited time to raise questions.
  3. Make sure you understand my answers.

Late Assignments

• Don’t hand in assignments late.
  • Late penalties are steep.
  • You’re not going to be able to climb out of the hole.

Missing Tests

• Let me know if you’re going to miss a test.
  • You can schedule a make-up at your convenience.
• Unexcused absences are handled more severely.
  • The tests are harder.
  • The scheduling is much harder.

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This page last modified on 2011 January 19.