Notes for Week 11

• Term project evaluation and tips• 3 lectures before Final exam • Discussion questions for this week

Term project evaluation

• Oral presentation– Evaluation form: background, description, delivery

(readable slides for 15 min., eye contact, speak clearly, good examples, relax)

– Focus on what you have learned and what you want to share with class: language design, features, applications, implementation issues and techniques, and references (complete info on books, URLs, and other info resources)

• Written report– CSUS writing assignment standard– See detailed description at course web site – Hand-in-check list

3 Lectures before Final Exam

• Concept review exercises • Less homework -> more term project• More discussionExample:What is the design idea for the

following programming languages: LISP and Scheme? Who is the designer of LISP?

Concept questions

• What are the fundamental issues in intelligent systems?

• What is machine learning? Give 3 examples of ML applications.

• What is data mining? Illustrate with an example.

• What is an expert system?• What are the knowledge representation

we covered in class so far? Why do we need knowledge representation.

Concept Questions

• What are the relationships between programming languages and knowledge representation?

• What is backward chaining?• What is forward chaining?• Which inference method does each of

the following language use: Prolog, Clips?

• What is the relation between Universal Turing machine and EVAL in LISP?