Lecture Description: Lecture video by Mustafa Jarrar at Birzeit University, Palestine. See the course webpage at: http://www.jarrar.info/courses/AI/ Other courseshttp://www.jarrar.info/courses/ Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

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Introduction
Mustafa Jarrar: Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence
Birzeit University, 2014
Artificial Intelligence
Dr. Mustafa Jarrar
Sina Institute, University of Birzeit
mjarrar@birzeit.edu
www.jarrar.info

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Watch this lecture and download the slides from
http://jarrar-courses.blogspot.com/2011/09/online-courses.html

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Part1: What is AI (Discussion)
Part2: Course Outline
Lecture Outline

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Reading and Discussion
 Study the “Artificial Intelligence” article
from the Wikipedia. Don’t read ch.1
 You will answer one of the following
questions.
 This will be a quiz!

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Discussion
• What is the common definition of “AI”? Do you agree?
• Do you know any AI application?
• Should artificial intelligence simulate natural intelligence?
• What are the criticisms on the AI research? Do you agree?
• What is the relation between AI and logic? AI and philosophy? Logic
and philosophy?
• Explain the meaning of logic? reasoning? ontology?
• What is Natural Language Processing? And how it is related to AI?
• Why and how Probabilistic and statistical methods are used in AI ?
• What are the major research approaches/schools in AI? Which one
you think is more productive?
• Which Arabic philosophers contributed to logic in the past?
• Why Arabs chose to study logic in the past?

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Part1: What is AI (Discussion)
Part2: Course Outline
Lecture Outline

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Topics
Introduction to AI, and Intelligent Agents
Information Retrieval & Natural Language processing
Lexical Semantics and Lexical Resources
Knowledge Representation & Reasoning
Description Logic, Business Rules, and Ontologies
Uninformed Search
Informed Search
Games and Adversarial Search
Machine Learning & Neural Networks
Seminar: {Planning, Fuzzy logic and Probabilistic Reasoning, Decision Making, Constraint
Satisfaction, NLP topics, History of Logic}.
Synthesis Paper: Every three student should write a synthesis paper (6-10 pages) about a research
topic that will be assigned to them.

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Topics
Intelligent Agents

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Topics
Information Retrieval & Natural Language processing
Lexical Semantics and Lexical Resources

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Topics
Knowledge Representation & Reasoning
Description Logic, Business Rules, and Ontologies

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Topics
Uninformed Search
Informed Search
Games and Adversarial Search

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Topics
Machine Learning & Neural Networks

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Topics
Seminar:
{Planning, Fuzzy logic and Probabilistic Reasoning, Decision Making, Constraint
Satisfaction, NLP topics, History of Logic}.
Every three students will select one of these topics and will be given 25 minutes to present
it in front of all students. Students will be evaluated based on (i) their understanding of the
topic and (ii) how much other students understood them.

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Topics
Synthesis Paper:
Every three student should write a synthesis paper (6-10 pages) about a research
topic that will be assigned to them. Students are expected to read at least three
recent articles related to the course topics; and summarize and criticize them.
Discussion and guidance will be provided during the course.

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Grading
Med Exams (20%)
Final exam (35%)
Paper and Seminar (15%)
Projects (30%)

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Teaching Material:
Textbook:
S. Russell and P. Norvig: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern
Approach Prentice Hall, 2003, Second Edition
Lecture Notes:
All lecture notes will be published on Ritaj before or directly
after each lecture.
All lectures will be video recorded, and published online at:
http://jarrar-courses.blogspot.com/2011/11/artificial-
intelligence-fall-2011.html

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Rules
Smile and be cool: help be to make the course full of fun!!!!
Attendance. Attendance is mandatory. University regulations are strictly
enforced.
Academic Honesty: Individual work must be each student’s own work.
Plagiarism or cheating will result in official University disciplinary review.
Missed Exams: There are no makeup exams, and project deadlines are very
hard.
Etiquette: Cell phones must be turned off. Don’t come late. If you must go out
during the lecture go but don’t let me notice.
Ritaj: Official communicate through Ritaj. I assume you check it several times
a day (other channels of communication are informal).
Facebook Group: students are encourage join this group
(https://www.facebook.com/groups/1460847144188492/) to discuss and share
related material among each other. (This is an informal communication
channel, and does not replace Ritaj).