Time and Place: Wednesday, 6-9pm, Snell Library 005
College of Computer and Information Science
Instructor: Robert Platt
Date | Topic | Notes | Reading | Assignment out/due |
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1/11/2017 | Introduction, Intelligent Agents | Course Introduction, What is AI?, A scattered history of AI, AI today, AI Agents, In addition to the Python/autograder tutorial linked to the right, feel free to have a look at the official Python Tutorial. | Ch 2 | Python/autograder Tutorial (optional, but recommended). This introduces you to Python and the autograder. |
1/18/2017 | Uninformed search | Classical search | Ch 3, Ch 4.1 -- 4.3 | PA 1 out |
1/25/2017 | Informed search | Heuristic search | Ch 3, Ch 4.1 -- 4.3 | |
2/1/2017 | Adversarial search | Adversarial search | Ch 5.1 -- 5.4, Ch 6 | PA 1 due; PA 2 out |
2/8/2017 | Constraint Satisfaction | Constraint Satisfaction | Ch 6 | |
2/15/2017 | Markov Decision Processes | Markov Decision Processes | SB 3.1--3.3, 3.5--3.6, SB 4.1--4.4 | PA 2 due |
2/22/2017 | Markov Decision Processes, Reinforcement Learning | Markov Decision Processes, Reinforcement Learning | SB 6.1 SB 6.2 SB 6.3 SB 6.5 | PA 3 out |
3/1/2017 | Reinforcement Learning | Reinforcement Learning | SB 6.1 SB 6.2 SB 6.3 SB 6.5 | Project out. Proposal due on 3/14/2017. Project due on 4/19/2017. |
3/15/2017 | Probability, Hidden Markov Models | Probability, Hidden Markov Models | Ch 13, 14 | PA 3 due, Project proposal due |
3/22/2017 | Hidden Markov Models | Hidden Markov Models | Ch 13, 14 | PA 4 out |
3/29/2017 | MIDTERM EXAM | Cumulative up to and including HMMs. | ||
4/5/2017 | Bayes Networks | Bayes Networks | ||
4/6/2017 | PA 4 due | |||
4/19/2017 | Intro to Machine Learning | Naive Bayes, Regression, Neural Networks Intro | Project due. | |
4/28/2017 | Extra Credit Assignment due. |
Important note: unless noted otherwise, all readings and assignments are due on the day that they appear in the schedule.
Unless noted otherwise, all readings are from Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, 3rd Ed., Russell and Norvig.