CS 3600 Introduction to Intelligent Systems : Syllabus

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This schedule provides an outline of what we will cover, indicates the readings from the book, and provides some sample homework problems for you to work on. Lectures may deviate significantly as we proceed in the course. Stay up to date with the class lectures, news, and announcements.

Date Topic Reading Out Due
August 22 Introduction Chapter 1-2    
August 24 Lisp tutorial lisp-lesson1.lisp    
August 26 Lisp tutorial 2 + Agents   Project 1 out  
August 29 Uninformed Search Chapter 3    
August 31 Uninformed search 2 Chapter 3    
September 2 Informed search Chapter 4 Sample Problems 1 Sample Problems 1 Solutions
September 5 Informed search + heuristics Chapter 4    
September 7 Simulated annealing Chapter 4    
September 9 Simulated annealing 2 Chapter 4   Project 1 due
September 12 Constraint Satisfaction Problems Chapter 5    
September 14 Game playing Chapter 6 Sample Problems 2 Sample Problems 2 Solutions
September 16 Isolation project thoughts Chapter 6    
September 19 Game Playing 2 Chapter 6 Project 2 out
 
September 21 Robotics Guest lecture Tucker Balch    
September 23 Computer Vision Guest lecture Jim Rehg    
September 26 Genetic Algorithms Chapter 4.3    
September 28 Propositional Logic Chapter 7    
September 30 First Order Logic Chapter 8 Sample Problems 3
Sample Problems 3 Solution
October 3 Inference Chapter 9    
October 5 Inference2 Chapter 9 Sample Problems 4 Sample Problems 4 Solution

October 7 Representation, Reasoning, and Review Chapter 10  

Project 2 due

October 10 Mid-term Chapters 1-10    
October 12 Planning Chapter 11

Sample Problems 5

Sample Problems 5 Solution

October 14 Planning2 (Drop Day) Chapter 11+12

Project 3 out

Tournament submissions due

October 17 Fall Recess      
October 19 Guest Lecture Chapter 12    
October 21 Partial Order Planning Chapter 12 Sample Problem 5B Sample Problems 5B Solution
October 24 Probability Chapter 13    
October 26 Probability Chapter 13    
October 28 Probability, Bayes's Nets Chapter 14 + 15 Sample Problems 6

Project 3 due

Sample Problems 6 Solution

October 31 Probability, Bayes's Nets Chapter 14 + 15    
November 2 Probability, Bayes's Nets Chapter 14 + 15 Project 4 out  
November 4 Bayes's Nets, MCMC, utility functions Chapter 14, 16.3    
November 7 Bayes's Nets, MCMC, utility functions Chapter 14, 16.3    
November 9 HMM intro, generalization vs. overfitting class notes (Chapter 15, parts 20, parts 23)    
November 11 HMMs, language recognition (speech, sign, handwriting) class notes (Chapter 15, parts 20, parts 23)    
November 14 Neural Nets Chapter  

Project 4 due

November 16 Decision treees Chapter 18    
November 18 Markov Decision Processes    
November 21 Computer Vision Chapter 24 Sample Problems 7 Sample Problems 7 Solution
November 23 Cross Validation, Leave-one-out training, Maximum Liklihood, MAP Chapter 20 Project 5 out  
November 25 Thanksgiving Break      
November 28 Maximum Liklihood, MAP Chapter 20    
November 30 k-NN, Minimum Description Length, PCA/LDA/ICA Chapter 20 Sample Problems 8

Sample Problems 8 Solution

December 2 MPD, POMDP, PCA/LDA/ICA, Mahalanobis distance, ADABoost Chapter 17+18, class notes    
December 5 Communication + Natural Language Chapter 22    
December 7 Grand AI projects notes    
December 9 Review - Last day of classes book   Project 5 due
December 15 Final exam 8-10:50 (Thurs.) book + notes    





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