The best way for students to communicate with me regarding this course is to come to scheduled office hours. If you cannot attend office hours in person, phone calls can be accepted but students present in the office will get priority. Email can also be used but a quick or detailed personal response is unlikely as I get a lot of email and responding to email can be very time consuming. Students present in the office or on the phone will get priority over answering emailed questions.

The best way for students to communicate with one another has yet to be determined.

Details of all of the communication methods follow.

Item	Type	Topic	Percent	Counted
HW1 HW2 HW3 HW4 HW5 HW6	Individual	AI & IA Search Logic Planning Uncertainty Decision Making	5% 5% 5% 5% 5% 5%	Top 5 of 6
Project 1 Project 2 Project 3	Group	Problem Solving Reasoning Reasoning Under Uncertainty	12.5% 12.5% 12.5%	All
Exam 1 Exam 2 Exam 3 (Final Exam)	Individual	Sections I & II Sections II & IV Section V	12.5% 12.5% 12.5%	All

All exams and homeworks in this course are to be done ALONE; the work submitted by a student MUST be the student's own.

Group work is REQUIRED for the projects. Students may work in groups of two or more. The more people in the group, the harsher the grading will be.

You are responsible for the material covered during the lectures sessions, whether or not it is also found in your textbooks or other assigned reading materials. Similarly, you are responsible for the material found in your textbooks and other assigned reading materials, whether or not it is also covered during the lectures sessions. In other words, you are responsible for the UNION of these sources of knowledge, as depicted by the shaded region of the Venn diagram below, not merely their intersection.

You may write your programs from scratch or may start from programs for which the source code is freely available on the web or through other sources (such as friends or student organizations). If you do not start from scratch, you must give a complete and accurate accounting of where all of your code came from and indicate which parts are original, which are changed, and which you got from which other source. Failure to give credit where credit is due is academic fraud and will be dealt with accordingly.

All work must properly cite sources. For example, if you quote a source in one of your homework assignments, you must include the quotation in quotation marks and clearly indicate the source of the quotation.

Late assignments will be penalized 20% per day late. (All parts of days will be rounded up.) After five days, you will not be able to turn in that assignment for credit. If you are worried about turning in the assignment late and loosing points, turn in the assignment ahead of time. You will be turning in electronic and paper copies of all assignments. It is the electronic copy that must be turned in by class time on the day that it is due. The paper copy is due twenty four hours after the electronic copy. The paper copy may be submitted in class or turned in during office hours or by slipping it under my office door.

All exams will be open book/open notes. NO electronic devices will be permitted in the testing area.

Copying another's work, or possession of electronic computing or communication devices in the testing area, is cheating and grounds for penalties in accordance with school policies.

Please see the Provost's web pages on academic integrity.