02-05-2021
Tamu Slack
Instructor: Dr. Dylan Shell.

| Office | : | HRBB 330C |
| Phone | : | (979) 845-2369 |
| : | dshell@tamu.edu | |
| Web | : | http://robots.cs.tamu.edu/dshell/cs420 |
| Office hours | : | Wednesdays and Thursdays 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM, by appointment too |
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TA Information
| Name | : | Aditya Biradavolu |
| : | aditya95913@tamu.edu | |
| Office hours | : | Thursdays and Fridays - 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM, by appointment too |
Fall 2020

| Lecture Time | : | Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays, 12:00pm-12:50pm. |
| Lecture Location | : | ZACH 310 + Zoom |
Logistics
Slack is being used for communication, general coordination, and to post and share files. Details, for example, of the zoom links are available in the appropriate slack channels.

Syllabus
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For additional details, please refer to the Syllabus.
Supplementary readings
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- [CMI]'Computing Machinery and Intelligence,'by Alan M. Turing. Mind 49:433-460, 1950.
- [SoA]The Sciences of the Artificial, 3rd Edition by Herbert A. Simon, 1996.
- [Roach]Dynamic stabilization of rapid hexapedal locomotion, Devin L. Jindrich, Robert J. Full.Journal of Experimental Biology 2002 205: 2803-2823. (Also see: 1,2,3)
- [D*Lite]'D* Lite,' by S. Koenig and M. Likhachev. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 476-483, 2002
- [E-Graphs]'E-Graphs: Bootstrapping Planning with Experience Graphs,' by Mike Phillips, Benjamin Cohen, Sachin Chitta and Maxim Likhachev. Proceedings of the Robotics: Science and Systems Conference, 2012.
- [Do-Calc]'Introduction to Judea Pearl's Do-Calculus,' by Robert R. Tucci, Apr 2013.
- [IwoR]'Intelligence without representation,' by Rodney A. Brooks, 1991.
- [POMDP]Tony Cassandra's POMDP Tutorial
- [Formal] The Jordan Curve Theorem, Formally and Informally, Thomas C. Hales, The American Mathematical Monthly, vol. 114, 2007, pp. 882-894.
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Other resources
Tamu Zoom
Here are some other materials that are useful.
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- Tom Lehrer 12
- Geese and Wasps
- Magenta and how we perceive colour [see also application of the Benham disc and Pointillism and Neo-impressionism]
- BBC Radio 4: Melvyn Bragg's discussion of the history and overview of logic; Thought Cages: #3 is an interesting perspective on logical thinking
- A good example of how to communicate a technical topic in an engaging way: Hexaflexagons,Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange, Homomorphic Encryption,Zero Knowledge Proofs
- Previous communication projects: 123
- Rap battle between economists; Overfitting Thriller.
