Artificial Intelligence and Perl

A presentation for the Perl Conference YAPC::Israel::2004, by Mikhael Goikhman.

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Slide index:

• 0.0 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
  • 0.1 Several approaches to AI
  • 0.2 Human model approaches
  • 0.3 Neo rational approaches
• 1.0 AI applications - Linguistics
  • 1.1 CPAN modules
  • 1.2 Example problem
  • 1.3 Example problem (cont.)
• 2.0 AI applications - Games
  • 2.1 Game playing is search problem
  • 2.2 Types of games
  • 2.3 Tree of two-player, deterministic, turn-based games
  • 2.4 Minimax algorithm
  • 2.5 Minimax optimizations
  • 2.6 Minimax (cont.)
• 3.0 Deterministic Games in Practice
  • 3.1 Chess in Practice
  • 3.2 Checkers in Practice
  • 3.3 Go in Practice
• 4.0 The Checkers Game
• 5.0 Games::Checkers Perl implementation
  • 5.1 Games::Checkers class diagram
  • 5.2 Automatic play, example script
• 6.0 AI and Perl - Conclusions
  • 6.1 References
  • 6.2 Thank you