Announcements and Special Information
CIS480
5/5 – I have made a couple of small revisions to the exam study notes and have provided a page of a few sample answers. Also a copy of the midterm exam both with & without answers has been posted, since some exam questions will come from that material. All of these can be found from links on the Study Material page.
5/4 – Hyper links have been added to the exam study notes - HL version.
5/3 – By popular request, I will hold a study session for CIS480 Saturday from 10-12 noon. We will meet at my office or in LY226.
If, for some reason, we cannot hold the session there, we will determine another place.
4/27 – I have updated the exam study notes with a bit more additional information.
4/26c – To avoid problems with KU's email, please email the zipped project folder to my Yahoo account, which is ojrieksts.
4/26b – The semester project presentation order has been posted.
4/26 – Study notes (with an appendix) for the exam have been posted.
4/16 – The algorithm corresponding to the program discussed in class has been posted.
4/12 – Please check out the code fragment that I posted.
4/5 – Possible summer opportunity. Another link for same program.
4/3 – Please look over the section on A* search from the 447 class (questions #21-32) as well as the intro to A* Search and the Delivery Robot Problem.
3/31 – There is an outside possibility that some of the positions related to the LV-IT program are still open.
Given that the program involves, among other things, mobile robotics some of you might want to check this out.
http://www.lehigh.edu/launchit/universitylevel.html
http://www.lehigh.edu/launchit/participants.html
3/27 – The assignment for Project #2 has been posted.
3/26 – Congratulations to Kathy Kemmerer who did a great job presenting her work at the PACISE Conference in Lock Haven!
3/23b – Tomorrow Dr. Jones & I will be presenting at the PACISE Conference on teaching AI using robotics. Here is our power point.
3/23 – If you are looking for jobs and/or internships, you might want to check out my 385 jobs/internships link.
2/27 – A shorter summary of the study material has been posted. One of my hardware consultants suggests
digikey.com and microchip.com as good sources for data conversion hardware.
2/26 – If you are having a problem with the final step of generating a path matrix (also called routing matrix), be sure to study the Read
Me file and the example found in the Sample Robi World solution which was posted originally on the 11th.
2/24 – The study notes for chapters 1-6 of Murphy are complete & have been posted. If I get a chance to
make up a summary, I will note that here in the announcements.
2/22 – Some study material has been posted.
Last week was diagram week. This week is timeline week.
2/21 – Congratulations to Mark Aldrich, Vinnie Hesener, Seth Kelchner, Nate Kindrew, Nathaniel Swartz, and Frank Urbanski who were awarded grants from KU's Undergraduate Research Committee!
2/15 – Please be careful when traveling. I plan to be in my office and hold classes at the scheduled times, but if the icy roads or the
wind chill pose a danger for you, we can re-schedule any meetings and make up class work when weather conditions have improved. No need to risk life or limb.
2/14 – All the supporting material for Project #1 is now ready and the assignment page has been updated accordingly.
2/11 – Quite a bit of information is now posted on the ShortestPaths site. Most importantly is the Sample Robi World solution which
has a ReadMe file explaining the contents of that folder. We will discuss it in class on Tuesday.
2/10 – Among the material posted on the 126/ShortestPaths site is a program which computes Floyd's Algorithm, printing out the entire
matrix for every iteration. It is applied to problem #8.6.2 of Rosen which is a graph with 6 vertices, yielding 216 iterations. If you run it on a graph with more vertices, you may want to remove the print-every-iteration aspect of the program, since a graph with 12 vertices would cause the program to run for 1728 iterations.
Also, if you downloaded this file before 8 pm Saturday, throw away the old copy and download it again. Although the calculations were correct, there was an error in the print code which resulted in incorrect subscripting.
2/3 – In preparation for a more thorough discussion of the Floyd's algorithm approach we will use, please look over the material I have
just now posted for CIS126 on shortest paths. Of most relevance to us will be the search tree in the weighted graph, especially the power point description, and the matrix application of that approach. There is a bit more I need to develop which will illuminate the role of the two matrices. As soon as that is done it will be posted. In the meantime, if we need to we can push the due date for the project back a bit in order to get a firmer grasp on the method we will use.
2/1 – The power point discussed in class is here:
The discussion of subsumption architecture is found here: http://faculty.kutztown.edu/rieksts/548/agent-concepts/subsumption/main.html
1/31b – Please note the change in the Project #1 assignment page. The reason for the change will be explained in class on Thursday.
1/31 – The schedule of reading reports has been added to Upcoming. And the order of reports has also been posted.
1/30 – The assignment for Project #1 has been posted. The due date has been changed to 2/15.
1/29 – News article of interest: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070129/ap_on_hi_te/robotic_garage
1/27 – During class Tuesday we will devote 30-40 minutes to a discussion of project teams and team membership. This will give you
an opportunity to meet with any & all classmates in order to allow us to make a determination of projects and project teams. It would be a good idea at this time to also designate team leaders and/or co-leaders.
1/25 – Here are two conferences you should consider:
1. @ Moravian College: http://math.moravian.edu/conference/
http://math.moravian.edu/conference/call.html
2. @ Lock Haven University: http://www.lhup.edu/comp_sci/PACISE2007/
http://www.lhup.edu/comp_sci/PACISE2007/CallForPapers.html
1/24 – The first meeting of KTA (Kutztown Technology Assoc.) is in LY226 Thursday @ 11.
FREE PIZZA for all!
1/23 – Roomba specs: http://www.irobot.com/images/consumer/hacker/Roomba_SCI_Spec_Manual.pdf
McGill Competition: http://www.csgames.org/2007/about_intro.php?lang=en
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CS_Games
1/19 – The weekly meeting times have been posted. If your time slot does not fit your schedule, let me know and we will see what can be worked out. Don't forget :: MEETINGS START THE WEEK OF JANUARY 21!!
1/16 – Welcome to class!