List of Topics: 1. Introduction - Overview of Artificial Intelligence - Basic Problem-Solving Strategies - Heuristic Search - Problem Reduction and AND/OR Graphs 2. Prolog - Syntax and Meaning of Prolog Programs - Lists, Operators, Arithmetic - Using Structures - Controlling Backtracking - Input and Output 3. Expert Systems and Knowledge Representation - Main Structre of an Expert System - Inference Engines - Representing Knowledge with If-Then Rules - Forward and Backward Chaining - Generating Explanations - Introducing Uncertainty 4. Game Playing - Two-Person, Perfect-Information Games - Minimax Principle - The Alpha-Beta Algorithm: An Efficient Implementation of Minimax 5. Other Topics - Machine Learning - Computer Vision - Planning - Neural Networks 1998.08