CSE 941 Selected Topics in Artificial Intelligence

Theme for Fall, 2009:  Developmental Vision

Description

The topics lie at the intersection of artificial intelligence, brain science, and cognitive science, with an emphasis on vision, but not limited to vision. The course was designed to suit graduate students in engineering as well as computationally oriented graduate students in neuroscience, cognitive science, and mathematics. Theories of epigenesis; brain architectures; mental architectures; developmental mechanisms for functions and integration; dorsal and ventral pathways; biological basis of short-term, long-term, working, episodic memories; autonomy in learning; pathways for vision, audition, touch and motor behaviors; bottom-up and top-down attention; incremental learning; scaffolding; skill transfer; motivational systems; and autonomous reasoning. The subject matter cuts across levels of cells, circuits, cortices, brain, experience and functions, and is intended for high-dimensional natural stimuli.

Instructor: Juyang (John) Weng
Office: 3144 Engineering Building; phone: 353-4388; e-mail: weng@cse.msu.edu
Class: 5:00pm - 6:20pm, Mondays and Wednesdays, room 3400 Engineering Building.
Text:  Working manuscript: Juyang Weng, Developmental Robotics
Syllabus

Course arrangement:

In this seminar course, each student will work on a course project, a project presentation and a project paper. There will be some homework (e.g., readings), and some seminar presentations (on the readings). There is no examination. 3 credits.

Course materials

General philosophy: Autonomous Mental Development by Robots and Animals
Course text
Lecture notes
Weekly papers

Notes

Professor Weng will be traveling for the first short week of classes and will not be able to attend on 9/2. There will be a short introductory class.



Back To Weng's Home Page: http://web.cse.msu.edu/~weng/