When designing any agent-based system, it is important to determine how sophisticated the agents' reasoning will be. Reactive agents simply retrieve pre-set behaviors similar to reflexes without ...

The area of approximation algorithms is aimed at giving provable guarantees on the performance of heuristics for hard problems. The course will present general techniques (such as convex ...

I see names like 'Qin', 'Xu', 'Zhu', and I am not sure how to say Chinese names like these. What you see is pinyin, literally 'spell out the sound'. It's a system for romanizing Chinese ideograms, ...

The names and naming practices for this handout were primarily taken from a series of books called Catálogo de Pasajeros a Indias (Catalog of passengers to the New World). The books contain lists of ...

Andy recounts the rise of vector databases to SQL:2023 to MariaDB troubles and the FAA outage in 2023.

This course provides a comprehensive introduction to computer vision. Major topics include image processing, detection and recognition, geometry-based and physics-based vision and video analysis.

This data set contains WWW-pages collected from computer science departments of various universities in January 1997 by the World Wide Knowledge Base (Web->Kb) project of the CMU text learning group.

Textbook Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms Andrew S. Tanenbaum & Maarten Van Steen Published by Pearson, ISBN 0-13-239227-5, 2nd edition. The lecture notes will be available after each ...

The Quad-Edge data structure is useful for describing the topology and geometry of polyhedra. We will use it when implementing subdivision surfaces (a recent, elegant way to define curved surfaces) ...

As much as Andy loves PostgreSQL, there is one part that is terrible and causes many headaches for people. Learn what it is and why it sucks.

This is a textbook on programming with emphasis on specification and proof of programs. It is now out of print, and all rights have reverted to the author, who has decided to make it publicly ...

A Robotics Institute student team, dubbed AI on Ice, has partnered with three organizations to add autonomous capabilities to a two-Zamboni-machine convoy.