CS 444 Artificial Intelligence

Spring 2019

This page is for the 2019 Spring version of this class. For general information concerning this course, refer to the general course page.

Current Week
Date Topic Readings:
Lecture
Assignment/Lab
Jan 8 What is AI? Ch 1 (sect 1.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.3) Lecture 1
Jan 10 Intelligent Agents Chapter 2 (all) Lecture 2
Jan 15 Uninformed Search Chapter 3 (pages 64 - 91) Lecture 3
Jan 17 Informed Search Chapter 3 (pages 92 - 109) Lecture 4
Jan 22 Hill climbers, simulated annealing, beam search Chapter 4 (pg. 120 - 126) Lecture 5 Assignment 1 (due Jan 31)
Jan 24 Genetic Algorithms, Continuous Spaces Chapter 4 (pg. 126 - 133) Lecture 6
Jan 29 Nondeterministic Actions
Partial Observations
Chapter 4 (pg. 133 - 147) Lecture 7
Jan 31 Adversarial Search Chapter 5 (pg. 161-170) Lecture 8
Feb 5 No Class
Feb 7 Midterm Exam 1
Feb 12 α / β pruning
Stochastic Games Partially Observable Games
Chapter 5 (pg. 180-185) Lecture 9 Assignment 2 (due Feb 21)
Feb 14 Constraint Satisfaction Problems
Chapter 6 (6.1 - 6.2) Lecture 10
Feb 19 Constraint Satisfaction Problems
Chapter 6 (6.3 - 6.6) Lecture 11
Feb 21 Logical Agents/Propositional Logic
Chapter 7 (7.1 - 7.4) Lecture 12
Feb 26 Theorem Proving
Chapter 8 (pg. 285-313) Lecture 13
Feb 28 First Order Logic
Chapter 9 (pg. 322 - 345) Lecture 14
Mar 5 Spring Break
Mar 7 Spring Break
Mar 12 Inference in FOL/Review
Chp 9 (9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4)
(exclude 9.4.3)
Lecture 15
Mar 14 Inference in FOL/Review
Chp 9 (9.5) Lecture 16
Mar 19 Midterm Exam 2 Lecture 16
Mar 21 Reasoning w/Uncertainty
Chapter 13 (13.1 - 13.5) Lecture 17
Mar 26 Probabilistic Reasoning
Chapter 14 (14.1 - 14.2) Lecture 18
Mar 28 Probabilistic Reasoning
Chapter 14 (14.2) Lecture 19
Apr 2 Probablistic Reasoning Chapter 14 (14.3 - 14.4) Lecture 20 Assignment 3 (due Apr 21)
Apr 4 Probablistic Reasoning Chapter 14 (14.5) Lecture 21
Apr 9 Probablistic Reasoning over Time Chapter 15 (15.1 - 15.3) Lecture 22
Apr 11 Probablstic Reasoning over Time Chapter 15 (15.4 - 15.5) Lecture 23
Apr 16 Learning Probabilistic Models Chapter 21 (pg. 830 - 853) Lecture 24
Apr 18 Reinforcement Learning
Apr 23 Project Discussions
Apr 25 Final Project Due
May 2 Final Exam
(Time: 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm)
Final Review