Demonstrations

Much of the material in 6.034 is reinforced by on-line artificial-intelligence demonstrations developed by us or otherwise available on the web. Those demonstrations developed by us are provided via the easy-to-use Java Web Start mechanism, which comes with the Java Runtime Environment, the so-called JRE.

The demonstrations illustrate the following ideas:

• Blocks world manipulation (after Winograd)
• Search: depth-first, breadth-first, hill-climbing, beam, branch and bound, A*
• Games: mini-max, alpha-beta
• Genetic algorithms: crossover, mutation, fitness
• Constraint satisfaction: drawing analysis (after Waltz, using Huffman labels)
• Domain reduction: map coloring, resource allocation
• Biological mimetics: genetic algorithms, self-organizing maps, cross-modal clustering
• Learning: nearest neighbors, support vector machines, lattice learning, boosting

So, if you don't have the Java Runtime Environment installed, you should install it first. Then, you can run the demonstrations (JNLP).