74.419 Artificial Intelligence

Individual Research ProjectSuggestions

"Apples or Pears?" Classification with self-organizing

neural networks; unsupervised learning

"Amazon.com" Learning of correlated items in a data

set (data mining with NNs)

"The Why Project" Extraction of causal/temporal relations

in a data set (temporal data mining with NNs)

Classification Problems

"Where are you?" Binaural hearing for locating a sound

source

"The Dancing Skeleton" Transformation of music into dance,

using a skeleton of connected limbs.

"Don't spill it!" Pouring liquid from a container into a

class (NNs; control problem; pole balancing)

Sensor and Motor Problems

"Don't run into the wall, please." Natural language interface for a toy car

"When is the next flight to Hawaii?" Natural Language access to a data

base (e.g. flight information at Winnipeg Airport)

"The Classroom Problem" Agreement (decision making) in groups

(with constraint satisfaction NNs)

Agents and Language