CMT 3325 Outline

Week Lecture Lab Reading
1 Introduction First XNA 4.0 Game Buckland Intro
2 Finite State Automata Miner Buckland Chpt 2.
3 Agents SpaceWars The Agent Wiki or Russell and Norvig Chpt. 2.
4 Physics 1 SpaceWars Agent Buckland Chpt. 1
5 Physics 2 SpaceWars Modify Physics Palmer Chpts 1 to 3
6 Moving Agents Integrate Buckland 3 into SpaceWars Buckland Chpt. 3
7 Chatbots Chatbot The Eliza Wiki or look at James Allen's Natural Language Understanding
8 Approximation Coursework 2 support Buckland Chpt. 4
9 Open (Distributed Games) Driving Game V1 Open
10 Search 1 Driving Game V2 (acceleration) The Search algorithm Wiki or Russell and Norvig Chpt. 3.
11 Knowledge Representation Driving game V3 (add an agent) Russell and Norvig Chpt. 7.0-7.3 and 12.0-12.2
12 Testing Coursework 2 support Explore for Coursework 2
13 Graphs Coursework 2 support Buckland Chpt. 5
14 Scripting Coursework 2 (Due) Buckland Chpt 6.
15 Physics 3 open space wars project 0 Palmer Chpt. 4
16 Open (NLP) open space wars project 1 Open
17 Search 2 open space wars project 2 Buckland Chpt 8.
18 Goals open space wars project 3 Buckland Chpt 9.
19 Psychological Models Develop a model of the Stroop effect The Cognitive Model Wiki and Human-level AI's Killer Application: Interactive Computer Games
20 Machine Learning Nearest Neighbor Clustering Pick a Paper
21 Open (Neurons) Minimax Search Open
22 A-Life Game of Life Alife Wiki
23 Open Optional Free Discussion No Reading
24 Conclusion Optional Free Discussion (out 2013) Reread all