Project Ideas

Please write your ideas down for projects, and also areas you would alternately find interest in.

Projects

2D Continuous Path-Finding/Game-playing - Thomas Michon, Nikolaus Wittenstein

• Create virtual maps navigated by 'characters' with objectives in mind. Make them avoid hitting the walls and each other while trying to play some sort of team-based game.

  Concepts: path-finding, strategy, learning

Puns -Andy Kalcic

• Make a program that can identify puns in a restricted subject area. Pun generation is probably not feasible.

Texas Hold'em Poker Playing - Zack Coburn

• Concepts: learning, acting with limited information, probability

Query Answering System - Eric Hwang

• Concepts: natural language, semantic data storage

Natural Language Interface for MATLAB - Mike Hughes

• Concepts: natural language processing, knowledge representation

  Functionality: allow user to harness the power of MATLAB using natural language commands

Python ai package - Ben Hayden

• ai/
  • ga.py
  • gp.py
  • neuralnet.py

  Concepts: collecting powerful methodologies

Hierarchical Temporal Memory - Matt Donahoe and Stephen Longfield

• Concepts: learning

Chat-bot - Andy Barry

• Implement a database driven chat-bot.

  Concepts: natural language, learning

Tetris - Ben Fisher

Write an effective strategy for playing tetris.

Concepts: Search, Real-Time algorithms, pruning, possibly image recognition

Interests

• Thomas Michon: pathfinding, probabilistic methods, genetic algorithms

• Ben Fisher: logic, markov models, genetic algorithms

• Andy Kalcic: natural language, wordplay, Scrabble

• Ben Hayden: python, genetic programming