resources

textbook(s)

• textbook website | amazon
• textbook code repository (lisp, python, java)

• optional
• website | amazon

online AI materials

• wikipedia: artificial intelligence
• list of AI links from textbook

common lisp

• wikipedia: lisp | common lisp | CLISP | John McCarthy
• CLISP is the implementation I'm using on cs.marlboro.edu (installed via ubuntu linux "apt-get install clisp") and on my Mac laptop (installed via darwinport's "port install clisp").
• the Common Lisp HyperSpec (language definition)
  • full alphabetical symbol index
  • download it
• The Common Lisp Cookbook (recipes for string manipulation, dates, files, etc)
  • Macros and Backquote
• ANSI Common LSIP, Paul Graham, Prentice Hall 1995 (amazon)
  • source code
  • Paul Graham's LISP essays
• On Lisp - also by Graham, more advanced, lots on macros. "The first book that really explains what Lisp is all about." Can download for free.
• Practical Common Lisp by Peter Seibel (apress paper and free online book)
• Common Lisp the Language by Guy Steele Jr (classic online book, a good reference for common lisp)
  • index of common lisp functions, symbols, and entities
• Lisp Primer
• Really great beginning lisp comics: Lisperati
• steve yegge on lisp - from Alec
• Successful Common Lisp - another online book

racket

• A good recent scheme (the other lisp branch; lisp-1 rather than common lisp's lisp-2)
• http://racket-lang.org/
• cleaner syntax than common lisp
• generally fewer built-in language structures

reasoning

• OpenCyc - "common sense" knowledge base
  • notes on OpenCyc
• TPTP - Thousands of Problems for Theorem Provers
  • notes on TPTP
• protege ontology editor and knowledge thing
  • Protege Tutorial a beginning tutorial for Protege

various software libraries

• Fast Artificial Neural Network Library (C, open source)
• JavaNNS (Java Neural Network Simulator)
• Hidden Markov Model Toolkit (C, free source with some restrictions)

articles

• Facing up to the Problem of Consciousness, David Chalmers in Journal of Consciousness Studies 2 (3), 1995, pg 200-219 (Defines the "easy" and "hard" problems)
• HUMIES

in the news

• Stanford & Norvig AI course (NY Times Aug 16)
• Robot to Robot chat (All Things Considered Sep 1)
• In case you wondered, a real human wrote this column (NYT Sep 10 2011)

other

• software tools - editors, compilers, statistics, etc
• Copyright and Plagiarism
• creative commons
• John Sheehy's Handling Source: A Guide for Marlboro College Writers