CS 444 Spring 2025 Calendar

A calendar/plan for the semester.

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Acknowledgement and Citations: Some of the material below was developed from:

The POGIL respository for Computer Science
the Berkeley AI project
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig

W	Date	Lecture Topic	Readings	Activities	Homework	Project
1	22-Jan	What is AI Intel Agents	Agents and Rationality	Precourse Survey	RQ 1 HW 1	PA 1
1	2	27-Jan	Uninformed Search BFS, DFS, IDS	Uninformed Search		RQ 2 MPQW2 HW 2	PA 2
29-Jan	2	Graph Search vs. Tree Search		Lab 1:Uninformed Search
3	3-Feb	Uniform Cost and A* Search	Informed Search		RQ 3 MPQW3 HW 3
3	5-Feb	Developing Heuristics		Lab 2: Informed Search
4	10-Feb	Mastery Quiz 1a Local Search	Local Search		RQ 4 MPQW4 HW 4	PA 2 Due Feb 8
4	12-Feb	Using Local Search methods to Solve N-Queens		Lab 3: Local Search
5	17-Feb	Mastery Quiz 1b Constraint Satisifcation Problems with Backtracking	CSPs		RQ 5 MPQW5 HW5	PA 3
5	19-Feb	CSPs Detecting Failure Early Min-Conflicts		Lab 4: Min Conflicting Queeens
6	24-Feb	Adversarial Search Minimax Trees Alpha Beta Pruning	Adversarial Search		RQ 6 MPQW6 HW 6 State Evaluation
6	26-Feb	Expectimax, Utility Functions	Adversarial Search with Uncertainty		RQ 7
7	3-Mar				MPQW7
7	5-Mar	Mastery Quiz 2a Slack Day			HW6
8	10-Mar	Markov Decision Processes 1	MDPs		RQ 8 MPQW8	PA 3 Due Mar 5 (/pas/pacmanwithghosts/)
8	12-Mar	Master Quiz 2b Lab		Lab 5: Value Iteration
9	17-Mar	Spring BREAK
9	24-Mar	Spring BREAK
10	26-Mar	Markov Decision Processes 2
10	31-Mar	Reinforcement Learning 1	Reinforcement Learning		RQ 9 MPQW10 HW
11	2-Apr	Reinforcement Learning 2		Lab 7: Reinforcement Learning Crawler
11	7-Apr	PA Work day			RQ 10 MPQW11 HW
12	9-Apr	Mastery Quiz 3a Proposition Logic and Logical Agents	Propositional Logic			PA 4 Due Apr 2
12	14-Apr	Theorm Proving and Resolution			RQ 10 MPQW12 HW
13	16-Apr	Mastery Quiz 3b FOL, Unification	First Order Logic
13	21-Apr	FOL Resolution and Chaining
14	23-Apr	Mastery Quiz 4 Bayes Representations	Probability Review
14	28-Apr	Bayes Variable Elimination	Bayes
15	5-May	Bayes Sampling
15	7-May	Hidden Markov Models Mastery Quiz 5a

Last modified April 9, 2025: Update autograder.py for qlearning to remove imp (depreciated in python 3.12). (aae363f)