The Use of Computers for Teaching Artificial Intelligence at Rensselaer

This paper describes the use of computers in the course Introduction to Artificial Intelligence at Rensselaer. Polytechnic Institute. In addition to programming projects completed by groups of students outside of class, in-class workstations are used for teaching the LISP language and for demonstrating relevant software. Finally, a class repository and newsgroup are used for communication between members of the class.