A survey of techniques for machine intelligence and their relation to human intelligence. Topics include modeling techniques, neural networks and parallel processing systems, problem-solving methods, knowledge representation, expert systems, vision, heuristics, production systems, speech perception and natural language understanding. Students who have completed both C463 and C464 are exempted from taking this course. Credit will not be given for both Cognitive Science Q351 and Computer Science B351. In-depth special topics not ordinarily covered in other departmental courses.
Topics vary with instructor and semester.
May be repeated once with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours. Projects must be approved in advance and supervised by the instructor. Tutorial study in specialized topics of the cognitive and information sciences. May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours. Methods of research in cognitive science are analyzed.