| Date |
Topic |
Reading |
Homework |
| Introduction |
| Sep 5th |
What is artificial intelligence?
[ppt]
|
C1.1 C1.4 |
| Problem solving |
| Sep 10th |
Uninformed search
[ppt]
|
C. 3 |
|
Depth first, breadth first, iterative deepening |
| Sep 12th |
Heuristic search
[ppt]
|
C.4.1 - 4.3 |
HW1: Search |
|
Greedy, best first, A* |
| Sep 17th |
Heuristic search
[ppt]
|
C. 4.5 |
|
Heuristic functions and examples |
| Sep 19th |
Search and applications
[ppt]
[ppt]
|
Paper |
|
Machine Translation |
| Sep 24th |
Constraint satisfaction
[ppt]
|
C. 5 |
HW1 due |
|
Solving crossword puzzles |
| Game Playing |
| Sep 26th |
Multi-party games and adversarial search
[ppt]
|
C.6.1-6.4 |
| | | HW 2: game playing |
| Oct 1st |
Multi-party games and adversarial search
[ppt]
|
C6.5-6.8 |
|
|
| Oct 3rd |
Applications
[ppt]
|
paper |
|
Chess, card games |
| Retrospective |
| Oct 8th |
What makes a machine intelligent?
|
Turing test paper |
|
| Empirical Methods |
| Oct 10th |
Uncertainty and Probabilistic Reasoning
[ppt]
|
C.13 |
|
| Oct 15th |
Bayesian networks
[ppt]
|
C.14 |
| Machine Learning |
| Oct 17th |
Machine Learning - Introduction
[ppt]
|
paper |
| Oct 22nd |
Decision Trees
[ppt]
|
C.18.1-18.2 |
| Oct 24th |
Statistical learning and midterm review
[ppt]
| C.18.3-18.6 |
HW 2 Due |
| Oct 29th |
Class Cancelled - Fire alarm
|
|
| Oct 31st |
Midterm
|
| Nov 7th |
Support Vector Machines, Guest Lecturer: Jason Weston, NEC
[pdf]
|
|
HW 3: Machine learning |
|
| Nov 12th |
Applications and WEKA tutorial
[KDD OVerview]
[Task 3 ]
[Weka]
|
C.20.2,20.4 |
| Nov 14th |
Financial applications and tournament celebration
[pdf]
|
C.10.1-10.2 |
| Knowledge Representation and Natural Language Processing |
| Nov 19th |
Frames, semantic nets and world knowledge
[ppt]
|
C.10.3 | |
| Nov 21st |
Using knowledge for learning
[Guest lecture on KR and narrative]
[Important HW Guidelines]
|
paper |
|
Applications to natural language |
| Nov 26th |
Other approaches to natural language processing
[ppt]
|
|
HW 4: Knowledge representation |
| Nov 28th |
Logic and inference
[ppt]
|
C.7 |
| Dec 3rd |
Logic and inference
[ppt]
|
|
HW 3 due |
| Advanced Topics |
| Dec 5th |
Robotics and Vision
[Logic]
[Vision]
|
| Dec 10th |
Review
[Review]
|
| HW4 due |
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