The following is a schedule of the lectures and presentations for CS 4013 Artificial Intelligence for Spring 2008. 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 15 (Week 1: Intro and Agent Design) | Introduction/Intelligent Agents | 1.1, 1.4-1.5 | ||
Jan 17 | Introduction/Intelligent Agents | Ch 2 | ||
Jan 22 (Week 2: Search) | Uninformed search | Ch 3 | Project 0, HW 1 | |
Jan 24 | ||||
Jan 29 (Week 3: Search) | Informed Search | Ch 4 |
Project 1 | Project 0 |
Jan 31 | ||||
Feb 5 (Week 4: Search) | Constraint satisfaction problems | Ch 5 | HW 2 | HW 1 |
Feb 7 | ||||
Feb 12 (Week 5: Search) | Adversarial Search | Ch 6 | ||
Feb 14 | HW 2 | |||
Feb 19 (Week 6: Search wrapup) | Project 1 discussions/Midterm 1 review | Project 1 | ||
Feb 21 | Midterm 1 | |||
Feb 26 (Week 7: Learning) | Midterm discussion, Introduction to learning | 18.1-18.2 | ||
Feb 28 | Learning from observation, Evolutionary Computation | 4.3 | ||
Mar 4 (Week 8: Learning) | Evolutionary Computation | HW 3, Project 2 | ||
Mar 6 | Decison Trees | 18.3-18.4 | ||
Mar 11 (Week 9: Learning) | GAs for Project 2 |
HW 3 | ||
Mar 13 | Instance-based learning : clustering, Nearest neighbor methods | 20.4 | HW 4 | |
Mar 15-23 | Spring Break! |
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Mar 25 (Week 10: Learning) | Ensemble methods | |||
Mar 28 | Learning and Project 2 discussion | Project 2 | ||
Apr 1 (Week 11: Learning wrapup) | Learning wrapup & Midterm review | HW 4 | ||
Apr 3 | Midterm 2 | |||
Apr 8 (Week 12: Uncertainty) | Planning and multi-agent systems | Chapter 11 | Project 3 | |
Apr 10 | Project 3 class discussion | |||
Apr 15 (Week 13: Uncertainty) | Multi-agent planning and group work | HW 5 | ||
Apr 17 | Planning and group work | |||
Apr 22 (Week 14: Uncertainty) | Planning and group work | |||
Apr 24 | Planning and group work | |||
Apr 29 (Week 15: Uncertainty wrapup) | Project 3 discussions / Putting it all together | Project 3 | ||
May 1 (Course wrapup) | Final review | |||
May 7 | Final exam 1:30-3:30 |