Components, curriculum, and community: Robots and robotics in undergraduate AI education

AI Magazine

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 11-22

  Dodds, Zachary ^a   Greenwald, Lloyd ^b   Howard, Ayanna ^c   Tejada, Sheila ^d   Weinberg, Jerry ^e  

^a HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE   (United States)

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