CS 4013 Artificial Intelligence Class schedule

The following is a schedule of the lectures and presentations for CS 4013 Artificial Intelligence for Spring 2007. 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 16 (Week 1: Intro and Agent Design) Introduction/Intelligent Agents 1.1, 1.4-1.5    
Jan 18 Introduction/Intelligent Agents Ch 2    
Jan 23 (Week 2: Search) Uninformed search Ch 3 Project 0, HW 1  
Jan 25        
Jan 30 (Week 3: Search) Informed Search

Ch 4

Project 1 Project 0
Feb 1       HW 1
Feb 6 (Week 4: Search) Constraint satisfaction problems Ch 5 HW 2  
Feb 8        
Feb 13 (Week 5: Search) Adversarial Search Ch 6    
Feb 15       HW 2 (due 2/16)
Feb 20 (Week 6: Search wrapup) Project 1 discussions   HW 3 Project 1
Feb 22 Optional: Midterm 1 review      
Feb 22 6:30-8:30 Midterm 1      
Feb 27 (Week 7: Learning) Midterm discussion, Introduction to learning 18.1-18.2    
Mar 1 Learning from observation, Evolutionary Computation 4.3 HW 4 HW 3
Mar 6 (Week 8: Learning) Evolutionary Computation   Project 2  
Mar 8 Class cancelled      
Mar 13 (Week 9: Learning)

Decision trees

18.3-18.4    
Mar 15 Instance-based learning : clustering 20.4 HW 5 HW 4
Mar 17-25
Spring Break!
Mar 27 (Week 10: Learning) Nearest neighbor methods      
Mar 29 Learning and Project 2 discussion     Project 2
Apr 3 (Week 11: Learning wrapup) Learning wrapup      
Apr 5 Optional: Midterm 2 review     HW 5
Apr 5 evening Midterm 2      
Apr 10 (Week 12: Uncertainty) Planning and multi-agent systems Chapter 11 Project 3  
Apr 12 Project 3 class discussion      
Apr 17 (Week 13: Uncertainty) Planning   HW 6  
Apr 19        
Apr 24 (Week 14: Uncertainty)        
Apr 26        
May 1 (Week 15: Uncertainty wrapup) Project 3 discussions     Project 3
May 3 (Course wrapup) Final review     HW 6
May 7
Final exam 1:30-3:30