Presentation (Graduate students only)

Preprare a Powerpoint (or equivalent) presentation, that will last about 15 minutes on one of the topics below. Please email me when you have chcosen a topic and let me know which one you have chosen. This is first-come first-serve, so your chosen topic may have been already taken. Your presentation must include the following:

• a general overview of the topic, especially how it fits into the rest of AI
• an example or examples of the technique in some detail
• a list of references (URLs are OK) used

Please submit your presentation through the submission page as a .ppt file (or equivalent) or as a .pdf file. Be prepared to make your presentation during the last two weeks of class, before finals week.

• Partial order planning algorithms
• The GraphPlan planning algorithm
• The FastForward planning algorithm
• Truth maintenance
• Semantic networks - Sukumaran
• Bayesian networks - Kotamarthi
• Dempster-Shafer theory - Machado
• Hidden Markov models - Lee
• Probabilistic language models
• Searle's Chinese room argument - B. Wright
• The arguments for and against the question Can machines think? - Kudumula
• Machine vision - Platt
• Machine translation - Zick
• Honda's ASIMO
• Expert Systems - Aguirre
• OWL, the web ontology language - Jindal
• The semantic web - Chinnasami
• AI in science fiction - Hazleton
• The AI winter - Ross
• Chess-playing programs - Khan
• AI's relationship to computer science - Bommakanti