Hi everybody,
You might have wondered why no list of projects is up for the area of
research that goes by the label of Artificial Intelligence. This email
tries to tell you what I expect students to do as part of project in AI:

1) Choose a topic that intrigues the student- AI is full of intriguing
questions that can be pondered on- but the only questions you can ponder
on are the ones that excite *you* in the first place. (2 days)
2) That is not to say that we would only be pondering. The next thing to
do would be to draft a problem statement- i.e. trim a ponderable question
to an experimentable statement.(1 day)
3) Do a literature survey to figure out if others have been working on the
same, or on allied problems.(2 days)
4) Decide on the goals of the project- what is going to be done in the
first 10 days, what will be aimed at for the final presentation, whether
the project would be continued later, what would this future work be. (3
hours)
5) Design/ experiment / modify existing algos/ think up clever hacks/ come
up with breakthroughs instead of hacks. (15 days)
6) Prepare a presentation and report. (1 day)

I have some projects in mind that will act as a back up plan- but note-
they will remain a backup plan- I expect you to excercise your grey cells
and I will not try to 'prime' your search in any way by telling you what I
think are interesting things to do.

This is your project.

eakta