Courses:

Course Info

• Course Number / Code:
• 6.833 (Spring 2006) 
• Course Title:
• The Human Intelligence Enterprise 
• Course Level:
• Undergraduate / Graduate 
• Offered by :
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  Massachusetts, United States  
• Department:
• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 
• Course Instructor(s):
• Prof. Patrick Henry Winston 
• Course Introduction:
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  6.803 / 6.833 The Human Intelligence Enterprise
  
  
  
  

  Spring 2006

  
  
  

  
  
  

  Course Highlights

  
  
  

  This course features an extensive list of readings and assignments for the course. Information about the graduate project is also available.

  
  
  

  Course Description

  
  
  

  6.803/6.833 is a course in the department's "Artifical Intelligence and Applications" concentration. This course is offered both to undergraduates (6.803) and graduates (6.833). 6.803/6.833 is designed to help students learn about progress toward the scientific goal of understanding human intelligence from a computational point of view. This course complements 6.034, because 6.803/6.833 focuses on long-standing scientific questions, whereas 6.034 focuses on existing tools for building applications with reasoning and learning capability. The content of 6.803/6.833 is largely based on papers by representative Artificial Intelligence leaders, which serve as the basis for discussion and assignments for the course.