The following is a schedule of the lectures and presentations for CS 4013 Artificial Intelligence for Spring 2010. This schedule will be updated throughout the semester. All readings are from Artificial Intelligence by Russell & Norvig third edition (blue book) unless otherwise noted.
| Date | Topic | Assigned Reading | Assigned | Due |
| Jan 19 (Week 1: Intro and Agent Design) | Introduction to AI & intelligent agents | |||
| Jan 21 | Intelligent agents and problem formulation | Ch 2 through 2.3, 3.1 | HW 1 | |
| Jan 26 (Week 2: Search) | Uninformed search | 3.2-3.4 | Project 0 | |
| Jan 28 | Snow day! |
HW 1 (due 1/30) | ||
| Feb 2 (Week 3: Search) | Uninformed search, Informed (heuristic) search | 3.5-3.6 | HW 2 | Project 0 |
| Feb 4 | A* search | Project 1 | ||
| Feb 9 (Week 4: Search) | Adversarial search | 5.1-5.3 | HW 2 | |
| Feb 11 | Local search, Search in the real world, Project discussion | 4.2-4.6 | ||
| Feb 16 (Week 5: Search) | Real-world games | 5.4-5.9 | HW 3 | |
| Feb 18 | Constraint satisfaction problems | 6 | ||
| Feb 23 (Week 6: Midterm) | Finish CSPs and midterm review |
HW 3 | ||
| Feb 25 | Midterm 1 |
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| Mar 2 (Week 7: Learning) | Introduction to learning |
18.1-18.2 | Project 1 | |
| Mar 4 | Decision trees | 18.3 | HW 4 | |
| Mar 9 (Week 8: Learning) | Decision trees, Learning curves | Project 2 | ||
| Mar 11 | Clustering and nearest neighbor methods | 18.8.1 | HW 5 | HW 4 |
| Mar 13-21 | Spring Break! |
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| Mar 23 (Week 9: Learning) | Kernel regression and overfitting |
18.8.4, 18.3.5 | ||
| Mar 25 | Evolutionary Computation | 4.1.4 | HW 5 | |
| Mar 30 (Week 10: Midterm) | Learning wrapup and midterm review |
Project 2 | ||
| Apr 1 | Midterm 2 |
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| Apr 6 (Week 11: Multi-agent systems) | Multi-agent systems & Classical planning |
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| Apr 8 | Classical planning |
Ch 10 | ||
| Apr 13 (Week 12: Planning) | Classical planning | Project 3, HW 6 | ||
| Apr 15 | Planning and acting in the real-world | 11.1-11.3 | ||
| Apr 20 (Week 13: MAS) | Multi-agent planning | 11.4 | HW 6 | |
| Apr 22 | COE Centennial Celebrations: Class cancelled |
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| Apr 27 (Week 14: MAS) | Hierarchical planning | |||
| Apr 29 | Project 3 in class work |
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| May 4 (Week 15: MAS) | In-class HW 7 |
Project 3 | ||
| May 6 (Course wrapup) | Final review | |||
| May 11 | Final exam 1:30-3:30 |
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