Brandon Druschel's Work Site for CSC 416 - Artificial Intelligence I

Welcome to my CSC 416 web site! Here you can find various content relating to the Artificial Intelligence I course that was taught by Craig Graci in Fall 2018. This includes documents and programs by myself, as well as some external resources, pertaining to AI and Lisp programming, that you may find helpful.

You'll find that the External Resources section of this page is divided into two sections; Elaboration and Enrichment. The former will reference items that pertain to the technical content of the course. The latter will point to interesting items that are less technical in nature, like TED talks or YouTube videos or magazine articles.

About Me

I (Brandon Druschel) am a senior Computer Science student that is enrolled in SUNY Oswego. I'm currently working on a Bachelor of Science degree, because I think that would be a more rewarding degree than a Bachelor of Arts.

I decided to take CSC 416 as it seemed like a suitable introductory course for learning about AI. I also believe that further exposure to the Lisp programming language in itself would be an extremely valuable learning experience.

Course Assignments:

• Programming Challenge: Five Sessions and Two Problems
• Chapter 1 - Salient Sentence Strings (PDF)
• Programming Challenge: Four Simple Function Definitions
• Chapter 2 - Salient Sentence Strings (PDF)
• Programming Challenge: Recursive List Processing
• SSPS Modelling Challenge: Missionaries and Cannibals (PDF)
• Programming Challenge: Interactive Missionaries and Cannibals Problem Solving Framework [Program] [Demo]
• Programming Challenge: Rolling the Dice
• Programming Challenge: M&C State Space Problem Solver [mc.l] [State Space Tree]
• Chapter 3 - Salient Sentence Strings (PDF)
• EVOLUTION PROGRAMMING CHALLENGE: Travelling Salesman

External Resources:

Elaboration

• AI - Wikipedia
• CLISP - Wikipedia
• Emacs - Wikipedia
• Common Lisp the Language, 2nd Edition by Guy Steele
• Practical Common Lisp by Peter Seibel

Enrichment

• ComputeMusic(now): Andrew Sorensen at TEDxQUT - YouTube
• Can we build AI without losing control over it? - TED
• MarI/O - Machine Learning for Video Games [AI Short Video Assignment] RIP
• Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence: Crash Course Computer Science [AI Short Video Assignment, stop at 5:35]
For the first 5.5 minutes of this Crash Course video, Carrie Anne does a quick overview on classification, and how it can be used conceptually to determine different species of moths. Related topics/terms mentioned are features, training data, decision trees and forests.