Knowledge-Based Applications Systems
MIT OpenCourseWare offers this graduate course on building programs that embed substantial expertise about a specific application domain. The syllabus opens with a brief review of core AI techniques, then works through case studies drawn from multiple application domains to illustrate principles of knowledge-based system design. Lectures cover technical issues such as choosing a knowledge representation scheme and methods for knowledge acquisition, alongside discussion of current and future research directions in the field. Students get hands-on experience by building an expert system as a term project, applying the concepts to a real implementation rather than just reading about them. Materials include lecture notes and assignments from MIT's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department, distributed under a Creative Commons license and free to access without enrollment restrictions.