Intro lecture

This is Power Point presentation of the introductionary lection on our course. Forgive me about equations -- I will replace ASAP this document by rewritten pdf version, I'm not so familiar with Power Point -- I always use LaTeX for technical/math notes :(

For additionary materials you can refer to wiki, first off all
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence
(Here considered many things about which I haven’t said any words at all, and we don't actually planed cover them. For example natural language processing, social intelligence, AI-complete computational problems and so on)

Good general introduction on AI you can find in recommended "Artificial Intelligence A Modern Approach" by Russel and Norvig.

Very old, but interesting and quite lengthy introduction to intelligent control with discussion on classical control vs intelligent control
http://www2.ece.ohio-state.edu/~passino/PapersToPost/bridge-gap-CSM.pdf
Also for more concrete review of intelligent control theory refer to article
http://nr.stpi.org.tw/ejournal/ProceedingA/v24n1/15-30.pdf
(or maybe we get back to this article a little bit later)