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CM50263: Artificial intelligence

[Page last updated: 09 August 2024]

Academic Year: 2024/25
Owning Department/School: Department of Computer Science
Credits: 6 [equivalent to 12 CATS credits]
Notional Study Hours: 120
Level: Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7)
Period:
Semester 2
Assessment Summary: CW 25%, EX 75%
Assessment Detail:
  • Set Exercises (CW 25%)
  • Written Examination (EX 75%)
Supplementary Assessment:
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Requisites: Before taking this module you must take CM50258 OR take CM50109 OR take another programming module
Learning Outcomes: On completion of this unit, students will be able to:
1. Understand a wide range of AI techniques, their advantages and disadvantages.
2. Appreciate AI as a mechanism to deal with computationally hard problems in a practical manner.
3. Understand the concepts of formal AI and put them into practice.
4. Write small to medium sized programs for aspects of Artificial Intelligence.
5. Critically evaluate state-of-the-art AI applications.


Aims: To present a detailed introduction to formal artificial intelligence. To establish a practical understanding of intelligence and computation as strategies for problem solving, and the nature of the problems amenable to various established strategies and approaches.

Skills: Use of IT (T/F,A) Problem solving (T/F,A),Communication (T/F,A), Critical thinking (T/F,A)

Content: Goals and foundations of AI.
Problem solving (uninformed, heuristic, and adversarial search; constraint satisfaction).
Logical reasoning (propositional logic, first-order logic, logic programming).
Probabilistic reasoning (probability models, Bayesian networks).
Machine learning (possible topics include decision trees, nearest-neighbor methods, reinforcement learning, neural networks, support vector machines, boosting).
State-of-the-art AI applications will be discussed throughout the unit.

Course availability:

CM50263 is Optional on the following courses:

Department of Computer Science Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering

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