Syllabus calendar
Click on a day to see full information for that day, including topic
list, suggested readings, questions, and other information. This page
will be updated throughout the term.
| 1 |
11 Jan
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13 Jan
Introductions, administrivia,
Agents and environments
Project 0 out
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| 2 |
18 Jan
Problems and problem spaces,
Informed search
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20 Jan
Branch and bound,
A* revisited,
Admissibility and informedness,
Optimal search
Project 0 checkpoint
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| 3 |
25 Jan
Search, continued
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27 Jan
Minimax revisited
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| 4 |
1 Feb
Game day
Project 0 due
Project 1 out
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3 Feb
Representing game states, actions,
Evaluating and improving heuristics,
Real time/time constrained AI,
Stochastic, partially observable games
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| 5 |
8 Feb
Project 1 implementation design
Project 1 checkpoint
Homework 1 due
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10 Feb
Alpha-beta pruning,
Fuzzy logic
Homework 2 due
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| 6 |
15 Feb
Fuzzy logic continued,
Bayesian reasoning revisited
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17 Feb
Entropy,
Decision trees, linear models
Homework 3 due
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| 7 |
22 Feb
Entropy and ID3 continued
Project 1 due
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24 Feb
ID3 cont'd
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| 8 |
1 Mar
Theorem proving,
Math proofs,
Propositional logic,
Predicate logic,
Unification
Exam 1 out
Exam 1 due 4pm
4 Mar
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[no class]
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| 9 |
[no class]
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[no class]
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| 10 |
15 Mar
Noisy channel model,
Hidden Markov models
Project 2 out
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17 Mar
HMMs and noisy channel model continued
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| 11 |
22 Mar
Training and testing,
Supervised learning,
Evaluating models
Project 2 checkpoint
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24 Mar
Genetic algorithms
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| 12 |
29 Mar
Genetic algorithms continued
Homework 4 due
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31 Mar
Neural networks,
Perceptron models
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| 13 |
5 Apr
Multilayer neural networks,
Backpropagation
Project 2 due
Project 3 out
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7 Apr
Ethics of AI classifiers, self-driving cars
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| 14 |
12 Apr
Backpropagation continued
Project 3 checkpoint
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14 Apr
Genetic-neural programming,
Planning problems,
Planning as search
Homework 5 due
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| 15 |
[no class]
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21 Apr
Planning algorithms,
Intelligent agents,
Production systems
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| 16 |
26 Apr
Responsive agents, emergent systems
Project 3 due
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28 Apr
Planning: monolithic systems vs emergent behaviour
Exam 2 out
Exam 2 due 2pm
3 May
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