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Instructor(s)
Prof. Patrick Henry Winston
MIT Course Number
6.803 / 6.833
As Taught In
Spring 2002
Level
Undergraduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
This course is offered both to undergraduates (6.803) and graduates (6.833) and is designed to help students learn about progress toward the scientific goal of understanding human intelligence from a computational point of view. This course complements 6.034, because it focuses on long-standing scientific questions, whereas 6.034 focuses on existing tools for building applications with reasoning and learning capability.
The content of 6.803/6.833 is largely based on papers by representative Artificial Intelligence leaders, which serve as the basis for discussion and assignments for the course.
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