The Odyssey of an Undergraduate AI Experiment
Lopez A.M., Jr.
1988
Educational Media International
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10.1080/0952398880250302
Now that more powerful 32-bit microcomputers with fast PROLOG interpreters are available, a reasonable introduction to artificial intelligence at the liberal arts undergraduate level can and should be made. This paper details how an experiment in offering a directed-reading course in expert systems at a small liberal arts undergraduate university gave rise to the following: (1) The development of a prototype diagnostic expert system on alcoholism and drug abuse, as a followup independent study project (2) An award-winning essay on ‘The Future of Artificial Intelligence’ (3) Departmental curriculum changes (4) The submission by an undergraduate of a paper entitled 'SOCRATES: A Project Integrating Human Science with Computer Science’. © 1988, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. All rights reserved.
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