Overview

Every two weeks, we get together to discuss a seminal paper in Artificial Intelligence.

We consider any influential work that has shaped the field of AI, including philosophical, historical, and scientific texts. Ideally, we will read papers which have been published over 15 years ago that have spawned a new research direction, killed off an existing one, revived another, or that have otherwise shaped the way we presently think about AI. This group is informal and laid back, and presents a welcome break from the many other reading groups we're involved in that focus on the bleeding edge of research.

While it is true that everyone could simply read through the historic literature on their own, we believe that together we can generate much more extensive and interesting parallels to our own present and future work.

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"You have to know the past to understand the present."
    - Dr. Carl Sagan

Reading Suggestions

1.

Ned Block, 1981, "Psychologism and Behaviorism" (pdf)
(4 points: 4 up, 0 down)
2.

A Newell & HA Simon, 1956, "The logic theory machine--A complex information processing system" (url)
(3 points: 4 up, 1 down)
3.

T Winograd, 1972, "Understanding Natural Language" (pick a chapter)
(3 points: 3 up, 0 down)
4.

Marvin Minsky, 1974, "A Framework for Representing Knowledge" (html)
(2 points: 2 up, 0 down)
5.

R.Fikes & N. Nilsson, 1971, "STRIPS: A New Approach to the Application of Theorem Proving to Problem Solving" (pdf)
(1 points: 2 up, 1 down)
6.

R. Schank & R. Abelson, 1977, "Scripts, plans, goals and understanding" (pick a chapter)
(1 points: 1 up, 0 down)
7.

B. Buchanan & E. Shortliffe, 1984, "Rule-Based Expert Systems: The MYCIN Experiments of the Stanford Heuristic Programming Project" (html)
(1 points: 1 up, 0 down)
8.

D Whitley, 1994, "A genetic algorithm tutorial" (pdf)
(-1 points: 1 up, 2 down)

Please email any suggestions you have to ikarpov.

Past Readings

Rudolf Kalman, 1960, "A New Approach to Linear Filtering and Prediction Problems" (pdf)
(6 points: 8 up, 2 down)
A.M. Turing, 1950, "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" (pdf)
(5 points: 6 up, 1 down)
James Allen, 1984, "Towards a general theory of action and time" (pdf)
(5 points: 5 up, 0 down)
JE Laird et al., 1987, "SOAR: an Architecture for General Intelligence" (acm portal)
(5 points: 5 up, 0 down)
Rodney Brooks, 1991, "Intelligence without Representation" (pdf)
(5 points: 5 up, 0 down)
AL Samuel, 1959, "Some studies in machine learning using the game of checkers" (pdf)
(4 points: 5 up, 1 down)
Marvin Minsky, 1960, "Steps Toward Artificial Intelligence" (html)
(4 points: 5 up, 1 down)
A Newell & HA Simon, 1976, "Computer science as empirical inquiry: symbols and search" (acm portal)
(4 points: 5 up, 1 down)
JR Searle, 1980, "Minds, brains, and programs" (html)
(3 points: 3 up, 0 down)

Meeting Schedule

We meet approximately every other Thursday, from 5pm to 6pm, in ENS 32NEA, starting on October 8th, 2007.

Click on the event to see which paper we will be reading for that date.

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