The following is a schedule of the lectures and presentations for CS 4013/5013 Artificial Intelligence for Spring 2011. 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 18 (Week 1: Intro and Agent Design) | Introduction to AI & intelligent agents | |||
| Jan 20 | Snow day! |
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| Jan 25 (Week 2: Search) | Intelligent agents | Ch 2 through 2.3, 3.1 | ||
| Jan 27 | Problem formulation | Project 0 | ||
| Feb 1 (Week 3: Search) | Snow/Blizzard day! |
Project 0 | ||
| Feb 3 | Snow/Blizzard day! |
Project 1 | ||
| Feb 8 (Week 4: Search) | Uninformed search, Informed (heuristic) search | 3.4, 3.5-3.6 | ||
| Feb 10 | A*, Local search | 4.1-4.2 | Project 2 (given out Feb 11) | Project 1 (due Feb 12) |
| Feb 15 (Week 5: Search) | Search in the real-world | 4.3-4.5 | ||
| Feb 17 | Adversarial search | 5.1-5.3 | ||
| Feb 22 (Week 6: CSPs) | Real-world games | 5.4-5.8 | Project 3 | Project 2 |
| Feb 24 | Constraint satisfaction problems | 6.1-6.2 | ||
| Mar 1 (Week 7: Learning) | Finish CSPs and midterm review | 6.3-6.5 | Project 3 | |
| Mar 3 | Midterm 1 |
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| Mar 8 (Week 8: Learning) | Introduction to learning | 18.1-18.2 | ||
| Mar 10 | Evolutionary Computation | 4.1.4 | Project 4 | |
| Mar 12-20 | Spring Break! |
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| Mar 22 (Week 9: Learning) | Decision trees, Learning curves | 18.3 | ||
| Mar 24 | Clustering and nearest neighbor methods | 18.8.1 | Project 5 | Project 4 |
| Mar 29 (Week 10: Midterm) | Kernel regression and overfitting |
18.8.4, 18.3.5 | ||
| Mar 31 | Linear regression | 18.6 | ||
| Apr 5 (Week 11: Multi-agent systems) | Learning wrapup and midterm review | Project 5 | ||
| Apr 7 | Midterm 2 | |||
| Apr 12 (Week 12: Planning) | Classical planning: logic overview |
10.1 |
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| Apr 14 | Classical planning: STRIPS representation |
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| Apr 19 (Week 13: Planning) | Classical planning: forward and backwards search | 10.2 | ||
| Apr 21 | Partial Order Planning | 10.4.4 | ||
| Apr 26 (Week 14: MAS) | Planning and acting in the real-world | 11.1-11.3 | ||
| Apr 28 | Multi-agent planning | 11.4 | ||
| May 3 (Week 15: MAS) | Multi-agent systems/Finish project | |||
| May 5 (Course wrapup) | Final review | |||
| May 12 | Final exam 1:30-3:30 |
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