Getting Started With Machine Learning/AI
apurva: The good news is you are at the right place :)
You should probably pick up courses on machine learning as will I.
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/AY2009/cs7641_spring/
kind of tells you the topics you may want to look at.
http://www.autonlab.org/tutorials/
is mentioned in the previous threads which has some neat tutorials too