Patrick Winston is an American computer scientist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology – MIT. He was director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory from 1972 to 1997.
He notably teaches the 6.034 course Artificial Intelligence, which can be found seen on Youtube and with summary notes on AILEPHANT:
- 1: Introduction and Scope
- 2: Reasoning: Goal Trees and Problem Solving
- 3: Reasoning: Goal Trees and Rule-Based Expert Systems
- 4: Search: Depth-First, Hill Climbing, Beam
- 5: Search: Optimal, Branch and Bound, A*
- 6: Search: Games, Minimax, and Alpha-Beta
- 7: Constraints: Interpreting Line Drawings
- 8: Constraints: Search, Domain Reduction
- 9: Constraints: Visual Object Recognition
- 10: Introduction to Learning, Nearest Neighbors
- 11: Learning: Identification Trees, Disorder
- 12A: Neural Nets
- 12B: Deep Neural Nets
- 13: Learning: Genetic Algorithms
- 14: Learning: Sparse Spaces, Phonology
- 15: Learning: Near Misses, Felicity Conditions
- 16: Learning: Support Vector Machines
- 17: Learning: Boosting
- 18: Representations: Classes, Trajectories, Transitions
- 19: Architectures: GPS, SOAR, Subsumption, Society of Mind
- 21: Probabilistic Inference I
- 22: Probabilistic Inference II
- 23: Model Merging, Cross-Modal Coupling, Course Summary