CPSC 370/570 - Artificial Intelligence

SPRING 2025

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Course Information

  • Syllabus.
  • Lectures.
  • Assignments.
  • Canvas and Ed Discussions course sites.
  • Gradescope.
  • cs370help@cs.yale.edu. Email alias to reach all instructional staff members with a question.

    Other AI Resources

  • AIMA web site at Berkeley.
  • Stanford AI Index Report 2024.
  • AIMA notes.
  • AAAI AI Topics.
  • pytudes jupyter notebooks designed to perfect your python programming skills.

    Great Ideas in AI: Primary Sources

  • Computer Machinery and Intelligence Turing (1950). Mind 49: 433-460.
  • Some studies in machine learning using the game of checkers Samuels (1959). IBM Journal, Vol. 3, July, 1959.
  • ELIZA—a computer program for the study of natural language communication between man and machine, Weizenbaum (1966). CACM, Volume 9, Issue 1. [submitted by Tyler.]
  • Artificial intelligence meets natural stupidity, Drew McDermott, ACM SIGART Bulletin, Issue 57, 1 April 1976.
  • Social processes and proofs of theorems and programs, DeMillo, Lipton, and Perlis, 1979. CACM. Volume 22, Issue 5.
  • Minds, Brains, and Programs Searle (1980). Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
  • Nonmonotonic logic and temporal projection, Hanks and McDermott. Artificial Intelligence, Volume 33, Issue 3, November 1987, Pages 379-412. (The Yale Shooting Problem)
  • DENDRAL: a case study of the first expert system for scientific hypothesis formation* Lindsay, Buchanan, Feigenbacum, and Lederberg (1993). Artificial Intelligence. [Submitted by Tyler]
  • Rodney Brooks collection of great ideas in AI Contains videos as well as pdf's. (That's where I found the Samuels article.) Brooks get extra homework points.
  • Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition Kaiming He, Xiangyu Zhang, Shaoqing Ren, and Jian Sun. 2015.
  • Efficient Estimation of Word Representations in Vector Space the word2vec paper, by Jeff Dean and the Google guys. 2011.
  • Attention is All You Need Vaswani et al. 2017.

    Exams

  • Midterm: February 26, in class.
  • Final exam: Tuesday, May 6, 9am. RTBA. There will be a final paper instead.

    Announcements

    1/13/25 We will be using Ed Discussions for class announcements, including office hours.