Doing a School Report About AI: Tips & Suggestions

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Welcome to our page of tips & suggestions to help you with your report or project.

Topics to Write About

Need a Topic? Try browsing through our collection of AI in the News articles, each of which points to a relevant page(s) in AITopics. Other good places to look for ideas are: the AI Overview, the A - Z Index, the Site Map, the Brief History of Artificial Intelligence, The Future and The AI Effect. And for something really different, check out our collection of toons that includes AI News Toons and But is it AI ?

• For advice about selecting a thesis or dissertation topic, go here.

Need to find something specific? Try our A - Z Index and search engine. (Also see our Search FAQ).

Need advice about how to write a research paper or how to give a talk? Find these and other how to's at How to . . . (where else!).

Terminology

Need help with the terminology? Check out our selection of Online Dictionaries, Glossaries and more and FAQs [Frequently Asked Questions we've found online covering topics such as fuzzy logic, natural language, and speech].

Interviews

Need to find an AI scientist to write about? You can find plenty of interesting people on these pages: Interviews & Oral Histories, Tributes, History, Namesakes, and AI "in the news".

Articles & Videos

Need help finding articles? See our links to Online Bibliographies & Digital Libraries, and various AI Journals.

Need a helpful video? Visit the AAAI Video Archive.

Software

Need some software or programs ... or do you want to build a robot? Check out our Software & Hardware collection.

Responsibilities of Scientists

Science is an effective method for finding the truth when scientists act responsibly. Some cardinal rules:

• Measure and describe as accurately as possible
• Check experimental results
• Describe methods as fully and objectively as possible so others can replicate experiments
• Do not fabricate or falsify evidence
• Distinguish hypotheses that are speculation from those that are supported by evidence
• Acknowledge the work of others, especially when using their methods or results
• Make new findings public in timely fashion

Examples & Other Requests

Need an example of a student project? See these examples from the AAAI Student Abstract and Poster Program, these winners of the AAAI award at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, and this Artificial Intelligence section, created for ThinkQuest's annual international student competition.

Need to see some of the mail we've received from other students about their reports & projects . . . and our responses? If so, here's where to go to see inquiries such as:

• [GENERAL INFO REQUEST] "could you please give me as much information on AI as possible"
• [ETHICAL ISSUES] "What are some ethical issues.... What are some threats and opportunitys...?"
• [THE FUTURE] "information that you have on Artificial Intelligence about the way it will may effect the future"
• [INTELLIGENCE] "what we can understand about the concept of Intelligence"
• [CAREERS] "information about a career in robotics"
• [INFORMATION ABOUT AAAI] " I am a student from school who is doing a project on the AAAI. I need to ask some questions about this organization."
• [INTERVIEW REQUEST] "I have been assigned to do a persuasive essay on Artificial Intelligence and I need to interview a pro in the subject to go along with the paper. So, could you please answer 15 questions and reply to them by email."
• [IMAGES / CLIPART] "I have searched all over the internet for images of historical AI pictures and haven't found anything. I was wondering if someone at your organization could help point me in the right direction specifically for old images of historical figures or inventions I can use for my presentation."
• [CITATION FAQ] I'm doing a report for school. What is the correct way to cite AITopics as an electronic resource, internet source, or WWW page?

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