CS 484 - Artificial Intelligence
Fall 2005
Research Paper and Oral Presentation


Loyola College > Department of Computer Science > CS 484 > Research Paper and Oral Presentation
Due Date Description
10/10/05 Email me a topic to research. Possible topics are listed below. Topics will be given out on a first-come first-serve basis.
10/24/05 List of 5 sources for your paper
11/21/05 Write a 10 page research paper on your selected topic. As a techincal research paper, I expect many of your sources to be journal articles and conference papers on cutting edge research. You may want to start by exploring AAAI, an organization devoted to AI research. Our library subscribes to several journals which publish AI research. Another good source is CiteSeer which is a digital library of computer science literature. You may also use the web. I encourage you to use CiiRarchies when searching the web, which is an alternative interface for Google. The paper will be graded based on quality of writing and content.
Assigned Class Period A 25 minute class presentation will present the material you researched. Presentations should include visual aides and examples where appropriate. You will turn in a printed copy of your presentation. We sure to include references on the print out. The presentations will be video taped.

Some of the topics listed below are approaches to AI while others are problems that have used AI in their solutions. If you choose an approach to AI such as decision trees, I would like to include a discussion of different problems that have been solved by the technique. If you choose a topic that focuses on a problem such as speech recognition, I'd like you to discuss how AI has helped solve the problem. The topics listed below are only suggestions. You may choice a topic that does not appear on this list

Suggested Topics