Follow the 'Option 2' link to see how we did at the 1997 AAAI Robot Competition
The senior conference is intended to be a culminating experience in computer science providing you an opportunity to delve more deeply into a particular topic and allowing you to synthesize material from previous courses. You have two options for meeting the requirements of the course.
Option 1: You may work on your own or as a team to complete a major project. You will not be required to attend weekly class meetings, but must meet the following deadlines.
2/3 Bibliography
2/17 Project proposal
2/24 Revised proposal (if necessary)
3/17 Progress report
3/31 Progress report
4/14 Progress report
4/28 Project demonstration and presentation
Grading:
25% Project bibliography, proposal, progress reports
25% Project presentation
50% Project content
Option 2: Meet weekly (Mondays 1:15-4:00 in Sproul 31A) to discuss the theme of Embodied Intelligence based on assigned readings. In addition we will work together as a team to prepare a robot for the upcoming American Association of Artificial Intelligence robot competition. The project will be a paper about your contributions to the robot preparation or a research paper relating to the course theme.
Text: Selected readings from Clark's Being There (MIT Press 1997), Franklin's Artificial Minds (MIT Press 1995), and others.
Grading:
25% Class participation
25% Reading responses
50% Project (due 4/21)