Resources

AI Resources

AAAI's (American Association for Artificial Intelligence) AI Resources Page
Russel and Norvig's AI on htmlthe Web links listings
Artificial Intelligence: Structures and Strategies for Complex Problem Solving's (your textbook) website
John Conway's Game of Life on bitstorm.org
A Step by Step Backpropagation Example by Matt Mazur
Levenshtein demo (minimum edit distance)
Simple Artificial Neural Network with Backpropagation in Excel spreadsheet with XOR example

LispWorks Personal Edition for Windows, Mac, Linux/FreeBSD, Solaris/Unix is free, but has a heap size limit (which you should never exceed for class assignments unless you have an infinite loop) and a 5 hour time limit per session (it warns you at 4 hours), which is easily reset by saving and restarting (take the time limit as a signal that you should take a brea, or at least get up and stretch), but it does have color matched parentheses.
Allegro CL Express Edition for Windows, Mac or Linux/FreeBSD is free
ELM-ART is a free interactive user-adapted tutorial on LISP. If you are interested in user models and user-adaptation techniques, talk to me about about a 499 project. This is my research area.
Common Lisp Tutorial (Johns Hopkins University)
Practical Common Lisp online textbook.
Kent Pitman's Common Lisp Hyperspec.
Common Lisp, the Language, 2nd Edition by Guy L. Steele Jr. online

Prolog is available on uhunix as /usr/uh/bin/prolog.
SWI-Prolog for Windows, Mac, Linux (packaged on most distributions) and source code for building on Unix/POSIX is free with an online manual
Some other free prologs for the PC or Mac are listed at the usenet resource guide for free Prolog implementations.
The comment character in Prolog is % (the percent sign).
For a nice interactive tutorial on Prolog, try Mike Brayshaw's Introduction to Prolog
Eclipse, download the Eclipse Classic IDE and ProDT (Prolog Development Tools)
SWISH, SWI-Prolog in a browser window.