Note: This schedule is only a rough plan for the course. We will generally cover the topics in the order listed, but not always in the given amount of time.
I will add material as the course progresses and correct dates if we get too far ahead or behind. Thus, it is a good idea to recheck this page from time to time.Occasionally we will discuss papers and topics not directly covered in the text.
Week | Dates | Topic | Reading | Assignment | Comments and Topics |
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1 | 1/9-1/13 | Introduction to AI | Chapter 1 | Classes start Wednesday, Jan. 11th. What is AI? Intelligent agents. | |
2 | 1/16-1/20 | Intelligent agents | Chapter 2 | No class monday, Jan. 16th. Agents, environments, goals, and agent types. | |
3 | 1/23-1/27 | Search and heuristics | Chapter 3 | Project 1 | Simple search (breadth first, depth first, uniform cost, depth limited, iteritive deepening, bidirectional), informed search (greedy search, A* search), heuristics. |
4 | 1/30-2/3 | More on searching | Chapter 3 | Search Illustrated, addmissible heuristics, dominating heuristics. | |
5 | 2/6-2/10 | Continous Local Search | Chapter 4 | Local search, Hill VClimbing, simulated annealing, beam search, Genetic algorithms. Search spaces, local optima, global optima, neighborhoods. www.polymorphicgames.com (download the demo of Darwin's Demons), emergent radio, Darwin's Demons Steam Page | |
6 | 2/13-2/17 | Adverserial Search | Chapter 5 | Project 2 | Min-max search, evaluation functions, alpa-beta pruning, probablistic games. Sample exam 1, |
7 | 2/20-2/24 | Adverserial Search | Chapter 5No class Monday, Feb. 20. | ||
8 | 2/27-3/3 | Constraint Satisfacton Problems | Chapter 6 First Exam Monday Feb. 27th CSP, backtracking, local search | ||
9 | 3/6-3/10 | More CSP | Chapter 6 | Backtracking search, heuristics, forward checking. Local search, min-conflicts. | |
10 | 3/13-3/17 | Spring Break | |||
11 | 3/20-3/24 | Logical Agents | Chapter 7 | Propositional Logic | |
12 | 3/27-3/31 | Logical Agents | First Order Logic | ||
13 | 4/3-4/7 | Logical Agents | Project 3, Graduate Project for CS570 | Sample Exam 2, First Order Logic, Prolog | |
14 | 4/10-4/14 | Fuzzy Logic | Exam 2 Friday the 14th Fuzzy logic operators, fuzzification, defuzzification | ||
15 | 4/17-4/21 | No Class | Instructor Traveling | ||
16 | 4/24-4/28 | Baysean Reasoning | |||
17 | 5/1-5/5 | Baysean Reasoning | Sample Final Questions, | ||
18 | 5/8-5/12 | Final exams |