About Natural and artificial intelligence

Dont expect a conventional computing course with this one! It deals with one of humanitys oldest dreams: creating machines with powers and mental abilities similar to our own. Youll examine work at the frontiers of research in computing, where ideas from biology are inspiring computer scientists to find new solutions to old problems - particularly in the quest to build truly intelligent computer systems. The course begins with a survey of traditional and modern approaches to artificial intelligence, bringing out the concepts that underlie them, and then explores the theory and applications of two classes of system inspired by biology: neural networks and evolutionary computation.