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From: kevin@cornell.UUCP (Kevin Karplus)
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Subject: what's the  best preparation for ai study?
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Date: Thu, 25-Apr-85 04:22:35 EST
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One of my CS advisees has expressed a serious interest in AI, but
Cornell has no AI courses or researchers.  He is now a second semester
sophmore, and plans to go to graduate school to do AI work.  What
courses should I recommend for him?

I recommended the following electives:
	Intro to Cognitive Psychology (1 semester)
	Introductory Linguistics (2 semesters)
	Mathematical Logic (1 semester) 
			as taught by Math, not Philosophy
	Programming Languages (1 semester)
			 (our only course that does anything with Lisp)

He could take other courses (instead of the computer architecture
sequence) in his current schedule.  What do the AI researchers and
students recommend as the "best" background  for an undergrad?

Thanks for the help,
Kevin Karplus