Essays

Essays must have an introduction, a thesis statement, a body with definitions, an argument, a conclusion, and a list of references. For more details, see here.

Plagiarized essays will score zero marks.

Note that an essay X% less than 2000 words will score, at most, X% (e.g. a 1000 word essay will score,at most, 50%).

Topics:

• Social And Ethical Impact Of Artificial Intelligence
• Fuzzy Systems and Machine Intelligence
• The Possibility of Intrinsically Intelligent Artificial Intelligence (an analysis of Searle's argument against the possibility of strong Artificial Intelligence)
• Are OO programs agents? (*)
• What is the best programming support for AI? (+)
• Agents are a stupid idea (=)

(*) "What is an agent and why should I care?" by T. Menzies and A. Pearce and C. Heinze, and S. Goss. Formal Aspects of Agent-Based Systems 2002 . Available from http://menzies.us/pdf/02agentis.pdf .

(+) Bobrow, D. G. 1985. If Prolog is the Answer, What is the Question? or What it Takes to Support AI Programming Paradigms. IEEE Trans. Softw. Eng. 11, 11 (Nov. 1985), 1401-1408. DOI= http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TSE.1985.231888

(=) What next? The Future of CBR in Postmodern AI Christopher K. Riesbeck CASE-BASED REASONING: EXPERIENCES, LESSONS, AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS David B. Leake, Indiana University, Editor 1996, second printing 2000 AAAI Press/MIT Press. 420 pp., $40, ISBN 0-262-62110-X.