The following is a schedule of the lectures and presentations for CS 4013 Artificial Intelligence for Spring 2009. 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 20 (Week 1: Intro and Agent Design) | Introduction/Intelligent Agents | 1.1, 1.4-1.5 | ||
| Jan 22 | Intelligent agents/search | Ch 2 | ||
| Jan 27 (Week 2: Search) | Snow day! | |||
| Jan 29 | Uninformed search | Ch 3 | Project 0, HW 1 | |
| Feb 3 (Week 3: Search) | Uninformed search, Informed search (GBFS) | Ch 4 | Project 1 | Project 0 |
| Feb 5 | Informed search (A*) | HW 1 | ||
| Feb 10 (Week 4: Search) | Local search, Constraint satistifaction problems | Ch 5 | HW 2 | |
| Feb 12 | CSPs | |||
| Feb 17 (Week 5: Search) | Adversarial Search | Ch 6 | ||
| Feb 19 | Gaming search | Project 1 | ||
| Feb 24 (Week 6: Midterm) | Gaming wrapup, midterm review |
HW 2 |
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| Feb 26 | Midterm review, Introduction to learning |
18.1-18.2 | ||
| Mar 3 (Week 7: Learning) | Midterm 1 |
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| Mar 5 | Learning from observation, Evolutionary Computation | 4.3 | ||
| Mar 10 (Week 8: Learning) | Evolutionary Computation | Project 2, HW 3 | ||
| Mar 12 | Instance-based learning : clustering, Nearest neighbor methods | 20.4 | ||
| Mar 14-22 | Spring Break! |
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| Mar 24 (Week 9: Learning) | Decison Trees |
18.3-18.4 | HW 4 | HW 3 |
| Mar 26 | Decision Trees | |||
| Mar 31 (Week 10: Midterm) | Overfitting, Ensemble methods | Project 2 | ||
| Apr 2 | Learning wrapup & Midterm review | HW 4 | ||
| Apr 7 (Week 11: Knowledge representation) | Midterm 2 | |||
| Apr 9 | First order logic |
8.1-8.3 | ||
| Apr 14 (Week 12: Multi-agent systems) | Project 3 | |||
| Apr 16 | Ontologies | 10.1-10.2 | ||
| Apr 21 (Week 13: MAS) | Planning & Multi-agent systems | 11.1-11.2 | ||
| Apr 23 | Multi-agent planning & real-world planning | |||
| Apr 28 (Week 14: MAS) | Multi-agent planning & real-world planning | Ch 12 | ||
| Apr 30 | Multi-agent planning & real-world planning | |||
| May 5 (Week 15: MAS) | Multi-agent planning & real-world planning | Project 3 | ||
| May 7 (Course wrapup) | Final review | |||
| May 15 | Final exam 1:30-3:30 |
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