Project Proposals due: February 24 5:00pm
Final Reports due: March 24 5:00pm
Projects are intended to give students the opportunity to explore
ideas or
directions in AI that we do not cover in class (such as
uncertain reasoning over time, computer vision,
speech recognition, creativity, emotions),
to consider ideas from class in
more depth (such as natural language processing,
neural networks, planning, game
playing), or to survey current
application areas (e-commerce, semantic web, data mining, scheduling).
Project work will include a demo for graduate students and
a
8 page research paper for all, submitted as final reports.
Project proposals are to be 5 pages in length and will include a
definition of the area,
the particular problem to be considered in that
area, and a list of several references that will support the project.
The AI Information Site has a
wealth of connections for finding a project.
Undergraduate projects are not expected to include an implementation effort.
A literature survey (several articles or book chapters)
and a thoughtful
analysis/synthesis/discussion is fine. Undergraduate students can do implementation
and demo for extra credit.
Graduate students should plan on either extending software from class,
developing new software,
or downloading and experimenting with existing
software.
Graduate projects will be expected to be individual work.
Your final paper and presentation should clarify the following issues: