CS 260 Artificial Intelligence

Fall 2006

 
Date Lecture Topic Reading Assignments and Events
Aug. 24 What is AI? R&N Chap 1  
Aug. 29 Introduction to Lisp Lisp Handout HW1 Assigned (includes Lisp) 

Class held in FGH 201 EECS Computer Lab

Aug. 30 LAST DAY ADD/DROP         
Aug. 31

Agents

R&N Chap 2.1 - 2.4  
Sept. 5 Agent Programs/Search  R&N Chap 2.4, 3.1 - 3.2

Sept. 7 Problem solving and search R&N Chap 3.1 - 3.2 HW 2 Assigned (includes Lisp)

Sudoku Files (Required for HW2)

HW1 Due

Sept. 12 Problem solving and search R&N Chap 3.3 - 3.4   
Sept. 14 Search Algorithms R&N Chap 3.5 - 3.7 and Chap 4.1   
Sept. 19 Heuristic Functions Chap 4.2

  

Sept. 21 Local Search R&N Chap 4.3 through Hill Climbing  

Project 1 Assigned

Basic code

Sept. 26 Constraint Satisfaction Problems R&N Chap 5.1-5.3 HW 2 Due

HW 3 Assigned 

Sept. 28 Adversarial Search R&N Chap 6.1 - 6.2

Project 1 Deliverable 1 Due

Oct. 3 Game Playing  R&N Chap 6.3, 6.5-6.8

Deep Blue

How intelligent is Deep Blue?

IBM Chess Article

 
Oct. 5

Logical Agents

Midterm Review

R&N Chap 7 Project 1 Deliverable 2 Due
Oct. 10 Midterm exam     
Oct. 12 Predicate Calculus

Inference in First-Order Logic

R&N Chap 8

R&N Chap 9.1 - 9.3

Project 1 Deliverable 3 Due

Tournament Code

Oct. 17 No Class - BREAK  

 

Oct. 19 Inference in First-Order Logic R&N Chap 9.4 - 9.5 HW 3 Due 

HW 4 Assigned

Oct. 20 LAST DAY TO WITHDRAW     
Oct. 24 Planning  R&N Chap 11.1 - 11.3   
Oct. 26 Game Day   CLASS HELD IN FGH203

Project 1 Deliverable 4 Due

Oct. 27 Assignment Due Project 1 Deliverable 5 Due
Oct. 31 Planning R&N Chap 12.1 - 12.2 Project 2 Assigned
Nov. 2 Reasoning under uncertainty R&N Chap 13
Nov. 7 Reasoning under uncertainty R&N Chap 13
Nov. 9 Reasoning under uncertainty

R&N Chap 14.1 - 14.3

HW 4 Due

HW5 Assigned

Nov. 14 Reasoning under uncertainty R&N Chap 14.3 - 14.4 Project 2 Deliverable 1 Due

Display Board

Nov. 16

Learning

R&N Chap 18.1 - 18.3

Nov. 21 No Class - BREAK     
Nov. 23 No Class - BREAK     
Nov. 28 Perception R&N Chapter 24

Project 2 Deliverable 2 Due

Nov. 30 Robotics R&N Chap 25 HW 5 Due
Dec. 5 Game Day   Project 2 Deliverable 3 Due 

CLASS HELD IN FGH201

Dec. 7 Distributed Artificial Intelligence     LAST DAY CLASSES

Project 2 Deliverable 4 Due

Dec. 8 Final Exam Review 1:00 PM    
Dec. 11 Final Exam 12:00 PM    

 

Key to Reading
Notes Topic specific materials not covered in the texts
Russell & Norvig Artificial Intelligence A Modern Approach