Common Sense Reasoning for Interactive Applications
A graduate seminar from MIT's Media Arts and Sciences program on building interfaces that draw on common sense knowledge. The course surveys the state of the art in common sense knowledge representation and reasoning, then has students design and build class projects that put this knowledge to work in usable interfaces. The featured theme looks at how common sense varies across languages and cultures, and how machines that understand these differences might improve communication both between people and between people and machines. Materials on MIT OpenCourseWare include the syllabus, readings, and project assignments used in the actual MIT class, free to access under a Creative Commons license. There is no video lecture series; the course is organized around discussion of research papers and hands-on project work rather than recorded talks.