Course 4190.408:
Artificial Intelligence: Biointelligence (2009)

School of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University
Instructor: Prof. Byoung-Tak Zhang
TA: Byoung-Hee Kim (Office : 301-419, Tel : 02-880-1847)
• ^New!Office hour: Mon 16:00~18:00, Wed 16:00~18:00
Classroom: 301-101
Time: Mon 14:30-16:00 and Wed 14:30-16:00
Objectives
• To understand the principles of cognitive information processing in the human brain
  
• To get ideas on developing computational methods to imitate the human cognition, learning, and memory
  
• To acquire the theoretical and technical tools for application of artificial intelligence
  
• To understand the history and future prospects of bio-inspired artificial intelligence
Textbook
• Artificial Intelligence: A New Synthesis, Nils J. Nilsson, Morgan Kaufmann, 1998. [AI]
• Cognitive Neuroscience: The Biology of the Mind, Second Edition, M.S. Gazzaniga, R.B. Ivry, and G.R. Mangun, Norton & Company, 2002. [CNS]
• [Notice^New!] The third edition has been published in August, 2008.
• [Notice^New!] Schedule on the CNS part has been changed according to the 3rd ed.
References
1. Hypernetworks: A molecular evolutionary architecture for cognitive learning and memory, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, 3(3):49-63, 2008. [IEEE-CIM, 2008]
2. Molecular Nanobiointelligence Computers: Computer Science Meets Biotechnology, Nonotechnology, and Cognitive Science (in Korean), Communications of the Korea Information Science Society, 23(5):41-56, 2005. [NBIC, 2005]
3. Hyperinteractionism: Investigations into Artificial Minds Beyond Symbolism, Connectionism, and Dynamicism (in Korean), Natural Science, 144-165, Summer 2005. [HI, 2005]
4. Artificial Intelligence: Past, Present and Future (in Korean), In Computers in the 21st Century, Chap. 11, Kyohaksa, pp.176-200, 1998. [AI-PPF, 1998]
   
Evaluation:
• three exams (60%)
  
• two small-scale projects (30%)
  
• presence and participation in discussion (10%)
Projects:
• Project #1: Pattern Classification by Neural Networks
  - description, data, references (Due: Apr. 15)
• Project #2: Language Learning by Hypernetworks ^New!
  - description, data&program, Hypernetworks, [IEEE-CIM, 2008]
• reduced dataset (Due: 13:00, May 27 ==> 13:00, June 1)    

Schedule

Topic	References
Introduction to AI (Computers, Intelligence, Mind, and Brain)	AI_Intro (bw), AI Ch.1, CNS Ch. 1 (bw), [IEEE-CIM, 2008] [NBIC, 2005]
Neural Networks	AI Ch.3, NN suppl
Genetic Programming	AI Ch.4, GP suppl
DNA Hypernetworks	AI_DNA_Hypernetworks
1st Exam (April 6: NN & GP => April 8)  (previous exams)
Heuristic Search	AI Chs. 8 & 9
Logical Reasoning	AI Chs. 13 & 14
The Predicate Calculus	AI Chs. 15 & 16
Knowledge-Based Systems	AI Ch. 17-1, 17-2
Bayesian Networks	AI Ch. 19, BN suppl
Intelligent Agents	AI Ch. 25, Intelligent Agents suppl
2nd Exam (May 6               => May 20: Search, Logic-propositional & predicate, KBS) (previous exams)
Cellular Mechanisms and Cognition	CNS Ch. 2 (bw)
Object Recognition	CNS Ch. 6 (bw)
Learning and Memory	CNS Ch. 8 (bw)
Language	CNS Ch. 10 (bw)
Future of AI	[WCCI 2008, Talk] [JSCI 2006, Talk] [IEEE-CIM, 2008]
Final Exam (June 10: CNS Ch. 6 & CNS Ch. 8) (previous exams.Note: the scope of previous exams covers 'Memory' and 'Language', not 'Object Recognition')

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Last Update: June 3, 2009.