6.871: Knowledge-Based Application Systems

Spring 2006

9:30-11AM Tuesday and Thursday 32-155

Instructor

Prof. Randall Davis

32-237

3-5879

Administrative Assistant

Nira Manokharan

32-235

3-5977

Teaching Assistant

Greg Little

32-G707

3-3406

Prerequisites: 6.034, equivalent course, or equivalent experience.

New Syllabus Reading Summary Assignments In Here!

Old Syllabus (for reference)

Reading lists:

Assignments:

Assignment 1 Competition Results!
John W Pope rules.txt
Shuang You rules.txt

SmartSweeper  Version 1.3 (Final Version, except for bug fixes)
Could the rule language be more powerful?
Scheme Stuff
More Boards (not required!)
 
Assignment 2 Answer Sheet [pdf] [doc]
 
Project Proposal Prior Year's Project List (for ideas)
 
Assignment 3 more files
 
Progress Report  
 
Next Progress Report Overdue!
 
Final Term Paper/Talk New!  
 

 

Class

 

Lecturer*

 

Date

 

Topic*

Reading Summary

Slides

intro & background

 

 

1

RD

 Tu Feb 7

Course Organization; spirit of the undertaking

 

Slides

2

RD

 Th Feb 9

Tell it what to know; search

 

Slides

the spirit and pragmatics of kbs

 

3

RD

 Tu Feb 14

Origins of KBS: macsyma and dendral

Problem Set 1 Out: Minesweeper

 

Slides

4

RD

 Th Feb 16

Application Analysis Case Study: Case Introduction

 

Slides

 

 

 Tu Feb 21

No class (virtual Monday)

 

5

RD

 Th Feb 23

Application Analysis Case Study: Class Discussion
Problem Set 1 Due

Case study write up due; reading summaries start

Y

knowledge representations and reasoning paradigms

 

6

RD

 Tu Feb 28

Rule-Based Systems
Problem Set 2 Out: Rule based systems (simulated)

Y

Slides

7

RD

 Th Mar 2

Semantic Nets

Y

Slides

8

HES

 Tu Mar 7

Logic

Y

Slides

9

RD

 Th Mar 9

Frame-Based Systems

Y

Slides

10

RD

 Tu Mar 14

Overview of Knowledge Representation
Problem Set 2 Due

Y

Slides

11

RD

 Th Mar 16

Pragmatic Issues in Knowledge Acquisition
Project Report 1 (Proposal) Due

Problem Set 3 Out: Rules based systems in Joshua

Y

Slides

problem solving paradigms

 

12

HES

 Tu Mar 21

Uncertain Reasoning, Models of Rationality

 

Slides

13

KK

 Th Mar 23

Blackboards
Problem Set 3 Due

Y

  

 

 Mar 28, 30

Spring Vacation                             

Y1

14

HES

 Tu Apr 4

Problem Solving Paradigms

No reading!

15

HES

 Th Apr 6

Causal Reasoning
Project Report 2 (Progress) Due

Y

16

RD

 Tu Apr 11

Model-Based Reasoning

Y

Slides

17

RD

 Th Apr 13

Case-Based Reasoning
Y

Slides

 

 

 Tu Apr 18

Patriots' Day Vacation

 

18

HES

 Th Apr 20

Reasoning with Constraints

19

HES

 Tu Apr 25

Reasoning about Physical Systems
Project Report 3 (Progress) Due

Y

research issues

 

20

tbd

 Th Apr 27

Guest lecture: Patrick Winston on the Human Intelligence Enterprise.

 

21

LPK

 Tu May 2

Learning
 

22

RD

 Th May 4

Ontologies and Data Mining                     
 

23

You

 Tu May 9

Project Presentations and Discussion

 

project presentations

 

24

You

 Th May 11

Project Presentations and Discussion

 

25

You

 Tu May 16

Project Presentations and Discussion

 

26

You

 Th May 18

Project Presentations and Discussion

Term Project Report Due

 

 



* Subject to change.

1 OK, just kidding.