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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1/8-1/12 | Introduction to AI | Chapter 1 | Classes start Wednesday, Jan. 10th. What is AI? Intelligent agents. | |
| 2 | 1/15-1/19 | Intelligent agents | Chapter 2 | No class Monday, Jan. 15th. Agents, environments, goals, and agent types. | |
| 3 | 1/22-1/26 | 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. Search Illustrated |
| 4 | 1/29-2/2 | More on searching | Chapter 3 | ||
| 5 | 2/5-2/9 | Continous Local Search | Chapter 4 | Local search, Hill climbing, simulated annealing, beam search, Genetic algorithms. Search spaces, local optima, global optima, neighborhoods. | |
| 6 | 2/12-2/16 | Adversarial Search | Chapter 5 | Project 2 | Min-max search, evaluation functions, alpa-beta pruning. Sample exam 1, |
| 7 | 2/19-2/23 | Adversarial Search | Chapter 5First Exam, Friday Feb. 23th. Probablistic games | ||
| 8 | 2/26-3/2 | Stochastic Games | Chapter 5 Including chance nodes | ||
| 9 | 3/5-3/9 | CSP | Chapter 6 |
No Class Friday March 9th. Turn in Project 1 to my mailbox in the CS office (JEB236) by 4:00pm Backtracking search, heuristics, forward checking. Local search, min-conflicts. | |
| 10 | 3/12-3/16 | Spring Break | |||
| 11 | 3/19-3/23 | Logical Agents | Chapter 7 | Propositional Logic | |
| 12 | 3/26-3/30 | Logical Agents | Chapter 8 | Project 3 | First Order Logic |
| 13 | 4/2-4/6 | Logical Agents |
Exam 2 topic list First Order Logic, Prolog Prolog notes 1 Prolog notes 2 sample K.B. Graduate Project for CS570 | ||
| 14 | 4/9-4/13 | Fuzzy Logic | Second Midterm, Friday April 13th. Fuzzy logic operators, fuzzification, defuzzification fuzzy logic and fuzzy control Wikipedia | ||
| 15 | 4/16-4/20 | Decision Trees | Information Theory and decsions | ||
| 16 | 4/23-4/27 | Baysean Reasoning | |||
| 17 | 4/30-5/4 | Baysean Reasoning | |||
| 18 | 5/7-5/11 | Final exam. We will have a take home final exam that will be due by the final exam time: Friday May 11, 9:30am. |