Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence

Prof. K.R. Chowdhary is currently a Professor of Computer Science at JGI, Jodhpur. He is the former Professor and Head, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, M.B.M. Engineering College, Jodhpur, India. He completed his PhD from the same university in 2004. Prof. Chowdhary has over 35 years of teaching and research experience. He also taught at IIT Jodhpur (2010-2017), and also served as Director at JIET Group of Institutions, Jodhpur from 2014 to 2019. He was honored with senior membership award of Association for Computing Machinery in 2008 and Eminent Computer Engineer’s Award from the Institute of Engineers, India in 2011. He has authored several papers published in national and international journals and conference proceedings. His areas of specialization include: Discrete Mathematical Structures, Theory of Computation, AI, Machine Learning, Natural Language and Speech Processing.  

Introducing Artificial Intelligence.- Logic and Reasoning Patterns.- First Order Predicate Logic.- Rule Based Reasoning.- Logic Programming and Prolog.- Real-world Knowledge Representation.- Networks-based Representation.- State Space Search.- Heuristic Search.- Constraint Satisfaction Problems.- Adversarial Search and Game Theory.- Reasoning in Uncertain Environments.- Machine Learning.- Statistical Learning Theory.- Automated Planning.- Intelligent Agents.- Data Mining.- Information Retrieval.- Natural Language Processing.- Automatic Speech Recognition.- Machine Vision