Dictionary of formats:
ps - PostScript document (view/print using ghostview, making sure on Windows to install both the ghostscript "engine" and the ghostview user interface; on Unix, use "gv");
pdf - Portable Document Format (view/print using Acrobat Reader: "acroread" on Unix);
html - HTML format (you can see it in your browser, particularly if your browser is Internet Explorer);
ppt - Microsoft PowerPoint format (you need to have PowerPoint or a PowerPoint viewer installed to use this)
pps - Microsoft PowerPoint Show format (you need to have PowerPoint or a PowerPoint viewer installed to use this)

For certain (mathematical) slides, you may need the TrueType font "WP MathA" installed on your MS-Windows system so you can view the HTML and PowerPoint correctly.

The course is based on the textbook "An Introduction to Multiagent Systems" (IMAS), by Michael Wooldridge (John Wiley and Sons, 2002). He has prepared a variety of course materials, all of which are available at the book's WWW site. We are using his lecture slides as a basis for the course lectures; his slides are accessible via the links below (you can also download the course lecture handout sheets, in a variety of formats and options, via this link). If you'd prefer to do a single local download of Wooldridge's entire set of lectures and handouts (in PostScript and PDF formats), you can download a single compressed file, then use something like WinZip or gzip to open it up.

The HTML and PowerPoint files below are modified forms of the lectures, that generally include additional slides or comments that I have interpolated into Wooldridge's original material (so obviously, they differ from the PostScript and PDF versions of the slides which come directly from Wooldridge). I will be using the PowerPoint versions of the slides during my lectures, and these are the ones you should use to review material for the midterm and final exams. I've labeled Wooldridge's original slides with W: and my (sometimes) modified slides with R:.