Three years of using robots in an artificial intelligence course - Lessons learned

ACM Journal on Educational Resources in Computing

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1-15

  Kumar, Amruth N ^a  

^a RAMAPO COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Knowledge Based Algorithms; Lego ; Open Laboratory Projects; Robots

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATA REDUCTION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

KNOWLEDGE-BASED ALGORITHMS; LEGO™; OPEN-LABORATORY PROJECTS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 29344433818     PISSN: 15314278     EISSN: 15314278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1083310.1083311     Document Type: Review

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