CS378 CI in Game Design I: Class Schedule

This is the current plan and may be updated occasionally. We'll begin with an intro to NERO and the technology used in it, and gradually work towards research in Game AI. In addition to the class meetings, the schedule includes a hands-on game technology assignment (almost) every week. Note:

The homework is done in groups of two students.
The homework assignments are "turned in" by signing up to demo your work with the mentors.
The presentation slides, demos, and reading assignments are available by clicking on the topic title.

Date	Topic	Assignment
1/20	Introduction	Homework 1: Running NERO
1/27	Getting Started with OpenNERO	Homework 2: Add objects to OpenNERO
2/3	Computational Intelligence in Games	Homework 3: Creating a NERO Team for the Tournament
2/10	NERO tournament
2/17	Neural Networks	Homework 4: Backprop networks
2/24	C++	Homework 5: Neural Networks in C++
3/3	Neuroevolution	Homework 6: rtNEAT XOR in OpenNERO
3/10	Python	Homework 7: Create a "Roomba" agent using Python
3/26	Search
3/31	OpenNERO code	Homework 8: Mazer
4/7	Sample research projects
4/14	Experimental evaluation	Homework 10: rtNEAT in the maze
4/21	Research project ideas	Project proposal
4/28	Working in the game industry
5/5	Game Development Process

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Wed Jan 7 00:07:25 CST 2009

CS378 CI in Game Design I: Class Schedule

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