Course 4190.408:
Artificial Intelligence: Biointelligence (2010)

School of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University

Instructor: Prof. Byoung-Tak Zhang

TA: Ho-Sik Seok (Office : 138-409, TEL: 880-5890)

Classroom: 302-209

Time: Mon 11:00-12:15 and Wed 11:00-12:15

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, Third Edition, M.S. Gazzaniga, R.B. Ivry, and G.R. Mangun, Norton & Company, 2008. [CNS]

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:

• [New] Scores (if you have any claim, contact TA until June 22nd)
• three exams (60%)
  
• two small-scale projects (30%)
  
• presence and participation in discussion (10%)
• The 2nd exam
• May 31st.
• Scope: Search (Chs 8-9, Logic (Chs 13-14), KBS (Ch 17) .
• The 3rd exam
• June 2nd: Take-Home Exam Questions announced .
• Scope: Vision (Ch 6), Language (Ch 10), Learning and Memory (Ch 8).
• Submission due: June 14th 11:00 AM.

Links for MMG Game download

• http://biki.snu.ac.kr/env/MMG_Program.zip

• http://biki.snu.ac.kr/env/NetFx20SP1_x86.exe

• http://biki.snu.ac.kr/env/vcredist_x86.exe

• * MMG program zip file has both MMG version files.

• In case you have any problem in downloading, installing or playing the game, kindly forward your queries to ufareed@bi.snu.ac.kr.

Projects:

• Project #1: Pattern Classification by Neural Networks (DUE: 23:59, April 5)

• slides (slightly modified in Apr. 2), weka_program, datasets, references

• Project #2: Cross-modal Generation between Image and Text using Hypernetworks (DUE: 23:59, May 31
• description, tool & data, raw data

Lecture Board

 

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	Neural Networks, AI-Ch.3
Evolutionary Computation	EC_tutorial 1, EC_tutorial 2, AI-Ch.4, EA-Tutorial (New!)
DNA Hypernetworks	AI-DNA_Hypernetworks
1st Exam: APRIL/14 11:00~12:15 (Previous exams)    The 1st exam covers "Introduction to AI", "Neural Networks", "Evolutionary Computation", and "DNA Hypernetworks"
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/31(Mon) Scope: Search (Chs 8-9), Logic (Chs 13-14), KBS (Ch 17)
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 (Cognitive Neuroscience): JUNE/2(Wed) Take-Home Exam Questions announced  Scope: Vision (Ch 6), Language (Ch 10), Learning and Memory (Ch 8)  Submission due: 6/14 (Mon) 11:00 AM   (New!) Take-Home Exam Questions

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