CS 4013/5013 Artificial Intelligence Class schedule

The following is a schedule of the lectures and presentations for CS 4013/5013 Artificial Intelligence for Spring 2012. 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 17 (Week 1: Intro and Agent Design) Introduction to AI & intelligent agents      
Jan 19
Search and problem formulation, Agents and environments
Ch 2 through 2.3, 3.1 Project 0: setting up your account, HW 1  
Jan 24 (Week 2: Search)
No class
   
Jan 26 Problem formulation, Uninformed search, Informed search 3.4, 3.5-3.6 Project 1: uniformed search Project 0, HW 1
Jan 31 (Week 3: Search)
Heuristic search, A*
  HW 2  
Feb 2
Local search and search in the real world
4.1-4.5 Project 2: A* Project 1
Feb 7 (Week 4: Search) Adversarial search 5.1-5.3   HW 2
Feb 9 Real-world games 5.4-5.8 Project 3: Mini-max, HW 3 Project 2
Feb 14 (Week 5: Search) Alpha-beta pruning, real-world games, start CSPs 6.1    
Feb 16 Constraint satisfaction problems 6.1-6.2 HW 3
Feb 21 (Week 6: CSPs)
Midterm review
6.3-6.5   Project 3
Feb 23
Midterm 1
Feb 28 (Week 7: Learning) Introduction to learning, Linear regression 18.1-18.2, 18.6    
Mar 1
Evolutionary Computation
4.1.4 Project 4: EC for control  
Mar 6 (Week 8: Learning) Evolutionary Computation and Project discussion      
Mar 8 Decision trees, Learning curves 18.3    
Mar 13 (Week 9: Learning) Decision trees, Clustering 18.8.1 Project 5: Learning in spacewar, HW 4, HW 5 Project 4
Mar 15 Clustering, nearest neighbor methods, Kernel regression 18.8.4, 18.3.5    
Mar 17-25
Spring Break!
Mar 27 (Week 10: Midterm)

Overfitting, Simulated annealing

    HW 4, HW 5
Mar 29
Logistic regression, learning wrapup, midterm review
    Project 5
Apr 3 (Week 11: Multi-agent systems)
Midterm 2
Apr 5
Introduction to multi-agent systems, logic overview
 
Apr 10 (Week 12: Planning)
Tying things together: creating intelligent agents; Introduction to classical planning
10.1
Project 6: Exploration and Invaders  
Apr 12

Classical planning: STRIPS and derived representations

   
Apr 17 (Week 13: Planning) Classical planning: project work    
Apr 19
Cancelled, Dr McGovern sick
Apr 24 (Week 14: MAS) Forward and backwards search, 10.2 HW 6  
Apr 26 Planning and acting in the real-world, Project work. 11.1-11.2    
May 1 (Week 15: MAS) Multi-agent planning , Project work handout on D2L   HW 6
May 3 (Course wrapup) Final review     Project 6
May 7
Final exam 1:30-3:30