CSCI 373: Artificial Intelligence

Lectures and Readings

Lectures

The following is a list of lecture topics to be covered. Please come to class having read the appropriate readings. The readings are from Russell and Norvig, unless noted otherwise.

Note that this schedule is different from the one originally set out in September. In particular, the final four weeks include changes that reflect preferences of the class as expressed in an informal survey conducted in class on October 26.

All important milestones (assignments, project, exam) are as originally scheduled.

Lecture Date Topic Reading
1. Sept. 7 Introduction
2. Sept. 10 Brief History of AI Ch. 1
3-4. Sept. 12-14 Problem Solving and Search Ch. 2, 3.1-3.5
5-7. Sept. 17-21 (optional lecture Sept. 18) Lisp (Part I), Non-PowerPoint version of Part I, including how to write and run a Lisp program, Part II, Scope Examples
8. Sept. 24 Informed Search, Examples: Greedy, A* Ch. 4.1-4.2, Korf 95
9. Sept. 26 Frontier Search Korf 05
10-12. Sept. 28-Oct. 3 Games, Part I, Part II Ch. 6, Shannon 50a, Shannon 50b, Schaeffer 07
13. Oct. 5 Mountain Day
- Reading Period - - Reading Period - - Reading Period -
14. Oct. 10 Logic Ch. 7.1-7.5, 8
15. Oct. 12 Logic
16. Oct. 15 Logic
17. Oct. 17 Probabilistic Reasoning Ch. 13, 14 (thru 510)
18. Oct. 19 Grace Hopper Conference - No class today
19-20. Oct. 22-24 More on Probabilistic Reasoning, and even more
21-24. Oct. 26 - Nov. 2 Machine Learning, Dec. Trees Learning Issues and Dec. Trees Ch. 18.1-18.3, Mitchell 3
25. Nov. 5 Neural Networks Ch. 20.5 or Mitchell 4.1-4.5
26. Nov. 7 Learning Markov Logic Networks Mihalkova 07
27. Nov. 9 Genetic Algorithms Mitchell 9.1-9.3, Kicinger 07
28. Nov. 12 Temporal Difference Learning Ch. 21.1-21.2
29. Nov. 14 TD Learning in Games Tesauro 95
30. Nov. 16 Issues in Learning, Evaluation
31. Nov. 19 Exam
- Thanksgiving Recess- - Thanksgiving Recess- - Thanksgiving Recess-
32-33. Nov. 26-28 Design Reviews
34. Nov. 30 Ethical Considerations Grau 06
35-36. Dec. 3-5 Code Reviews
37. Dec. 7 TBA