Class |
Date |
Topic |
Reading |
Homework |
Comments |
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| 1 | Tu 9/1 | Course overview; What is AI? | Ch. 1, Lisp Ch. 1, McCarthy paper | Pretest and HW1(P) out | Slides | |
| 2 | Th 9/3 | Agents/Lisp | Ch. 2, Lisp Ch. 2-3, Graham article |
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Slides
Lisp debugging handout Fibonacci example handout Emacs reference card |
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| 3 | Tu 9/8 | Problem solving as search; Lisp | Ch. 3.1-3.3, Lisp Ch. 4-5, App. A | Pretest due | Slides | |
| 4 | Th 9/10 | Uninformed search | Ch. 3.4-3.7 | (see 9/8 for slides); example from class: neg.lisp; example from Lisp session: graph.lisp; graph1.lisp; graph2.lisp | ||
| 5 | Tu 9/15 | Informed search | Ch. 4.1-4.2, Lisp Ch. 7 | HW1 due; HW2(PW) out |
Slides | |
| 6 | Th 9/17 | Local search, genetic algorithms | Ch. 4.3,4.5-4.6 | Student evaluation #1 | (see 9/15 for slides); words.lisp; | |
| 7 | Tu 9/22 | Constraint satisfaction | Ch. 5 | Dr. desJardins out of town; Guest lecturer Don Miner; Slides | ||
| 8 | Th 9/24 | Game playing | Ch. 6.1-6.2 | Dr. desJardins out of town; Guest lecturer Don Miner; Slides | ||
| 9 | Tu 9/29 | Game playing II | Ch. 6.3-6.8 | (See 9/24 for slides) | ||
| 10 | Th 10/1 | Knowledge-based agents; project overview | Ch. 7 | Project teams formed; Project description out; HW2 due; HW3(W) out | Slides | |
| 11 | Tu 10/6 | Propositional logic (review) |
Slides | |||
| 12 | Th 10/8 | First-order logic | Ch. 8 | Slides; Mastermind project description; mm.lisp; mm-solver.lisp | ||
| 13 | Tu 10/13 | Logical inference | Ch.9 | Slides | ||
| 14 |
Th 10/15 |
Philosophy and history of AI |
Ch. 26, 27, Turing article; Searle article; Three Laws of Robotics (Wikipedia) |
HW3 due; HW4(PW) out |
Chronology of AI | |
| 15 | Tu 10/20 | State-space and partial-order planning |
Ch. 10.3 | Slides | ||
| 16 | Th 10/22 | Partial-order and hierarchical planning | Ch. 11.1-11.3, 12.2 | (See 10/20 for slides) | ||
| 17 | Tu 10/27 | MIDTERM (covers material through class #14) |
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| 18 | Th 10/29 | Probabilistic reasoning |
Ch. 13 |
Student evaluation #2; HW4 due; HW5(W) out | Slides | |
| 19 | Tu 11/3 | Bayesian networks |
Ch. 14 | Project design due | Slides | |
| 20 | Th 11/5 | Machine learning I: decision trees | Ch. 18.1-18.3 | Guest lecturer: Denise Rockwell; Slides | ||
| 21 | Tu 11/10 | Machine learning II: k-nearest neighbor, naive Bayes, learning Bayes nets | Ch. 20.1-20.4 | train-biases.lisp, Bias #1 training data, Bias #2 training data, Bias #3 training data; Slides | ||
| 22 | Th 11/12 | Machine learning III: neural networks, support vector machines, clustering | Ch. 20.5-20.8 | HW5 due; HW6(W) out |
Slides | |
| 23 | Tu 11/17 | Markov decision processes; probabilistic planning | Ch. 15.1, 16.1-16.3, 17.1-17.2 | Tournament dry run #1: Fixed-size and scalability challenges; Slides | ||
| 25 | Th 11/19 | Graduate Student Research Day |
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| 24 | Tu 11/24 | Reinforcement learning | Ch. 21.1-21.3 | Basic RL slides; TD slides | ||
| Thu 11/26 | Happy Thanksgiving -- enjoy your turkey! | |||||
| 26 | Tu 12/1 |
Multi-agent systems I |
Ch. 16.4, 17.6-17.7 |
Slides Data for test biased choosers and probabilistic choosers (#4): test-bias1.txt; test-bias2.txt; test-bias3.txt; test-bias4.txt; train-bias4.txt; train-bias4.lisp |
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| 27 | Th 12/3 | Multi-agent systems II |
Slides: See 12/1 | |||
| 28 | Tu 12/8 | Singularity Debate | HW6 due |
Tournament dry run #2: Learning challenge | ||
| 29 | Th 12/10 | Tournament | Tournament | |||
| -- | Th 12/17 | FINAL EXAM (10:30-12:30, NOT 12:30-2:30 as previously posted!) | Project and final report due |
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