COMP 440 Handouts

Copyright © 2007 by Devika Subramanian

These materials are for educational use by members of the Rice Computer Science Department. Use for other purposes requires permission of the author.

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Lectures

Fun reading

• Cracking the cube
• Experimental AI powers robot army
• Game-theoretic analysis of the 2004 presidential elections
• The two cultures of mathematics
• Casting net for better airfares
• Cheap, chintzy robots
• Cheap, chintzy robots, Part Deux
• Deep Space 1
• How Roomba works
• AI and fraud detection
• Stanley, the winner of the DARPA Grand Challenge
• Face recognition
• Breakthroughs in Science, 2005 (see item no. 9!)