CS 4013 Artificial Intelligence Class schedule

The following is a preliminary schedule of the lectures and presentations for CS 4013 Artificial Intelligence for Spring 2006. This schedule will be updated throughout the semester. All readings are from Artificial Intelligence by Russell & Norvig second edition (green book) unless otherwise noted.

Date Topic Assigned Reading Assigned Due
Jan 17 (Week 1: Intro and Agent Design) Introduction 1.1, 1.4-1.5    
Jan 19 Intelligent Agents Ch 2    
Jan 24 (Week 2: Search) Uninformed search Ch 3 Project 0, HW 1  
Jan 26        
Jan 31 (Week 3: Search) Informed Search

Ch 4

Project 1 Project 0
Feb 2       HW 1
Feb 7 (Week 4: Search) Constraint satisfaction problems Ch 5 HW 2  
Feb 9        
Feb 14 (Week 5: Search) Adversarial Search Ch 6 HW 3  
Feb 16       HW 2
Feb 21 (Week 6: Search wrapup) Project 1 discussions     Project 1
Feb 23 Midterm 1: Search      
Feb 28 (Week 7: Learning) Midterm discussion, Introduction to learning     HW 3
Mar 2 Markov Decision Processes Ch 17-17.3    
Mar 7 (Week 8: Learning) RL Ch 21 HW 4 , Project 2  
Mar 9        
Mar 11-19
Spring Break!
Mar 21 (Week 9: Learning) Learning and planning Ch 21 continued    
Mar 23     HW 5 HW 4
Mar 28 (Week 10: Learning) Decision trees Ch 18    
Mar 30 Project 2 discussion     Project 2
Apr 4 (Week 11: Learning wrapup) Learning wrapup, midterm review     HW 5
Apr 6 Midterm 2: Learning      
Apr 11 (Week 12: Uncertainty) Planning and multi-agent systems Chapter 11 Project 3  
Apr 13 Project 3 class discussion   HW 6  
Apr 18 (Week 13: Uncertainty) Planning      
Apr 20 Project 3 class work      
Apr 25 (Week 14: Uncertainty)       HW 6
Apr 27        
May 2 (Week 15: Uncertainty wrapup) Project 3 discussions     Project 3
May 4 (Course wrapup) Final review      
May 11
Final exam 1:30-3:30