| Week |
Date |
Topic |
Reading |
Assigned |
Due |
| 1 |
9/3 |
Introduction to AI |
AIMA Ch. 1 |
HW1 due
9/10 by 11:59pm |
-- |
| 2 |
9/5 |
Rational agents and uninformed search |
AIMA 2.1-2.3, 3.1 |
-- |
-- |
| 3 |
9/10 |
Informed search and heuristics |
AIMA Ch. 3 |
HW2 due 9/24 by 11:59pm |
HW1
|
| 4 |
9/12 |
Local search |
AIMA 4.1, 4.2 |
-- |
-- |
| 5 |
9/17 |
Adversarial Search |
AIMA 5.1-5.5, 5.7-5.8 |
-- |
-- |
| 6 |
9/19 |
Adversarial search |
AIMA 5.1-5.5, 5.7-5.8 |
-- |
-- |
| 7 |
9/24 |
Constraint Satisfaction Problems |
AIMA 6 |
HW3 due 10/8 by 11:59pm |
HW2 |
| 8 |
9/26 |
Probability |
AIMA 13 |
-- |
-- |
| 9 |
10/1 |
Bayesian networks (BN) |
AIMA Ch. 14.1-14.3 |
-- |
-- |
| 10 |
10/3 |
Inference in BN |
AIMA Ch. 14.4-14.5 |
-- |
-- |
| 11 |
10/8 |
Hidden Markov Models |
AIMA Ch. 15.1-15.2, 15.5 |
-- |
HW3 |
| 12 |
10/10 |
Hidden Markov Models |
AIMA Ch. 15.1-15.2, 15.5 |
HW4 due
10/29 at 11:59pm |
-- |
| 13 |
10/15 |
Quiz 1 |
-- |
-- |
-- |
| 14 |
10/17 |
Quiz review and in-class work |
-- |
-- |
-- |
| 15 |
10/22 |
Fall Break |
-- |
-- |
-- |
| 16 |
10/24 |
Intro to Supervised Learning (SL) and
Decision trees |
AIMA 18.1-18.4 |
-- |
-- |
| 17 |
10/29 |
Neural networks |
AIMA 18.6-18.8 |
-- |
HW4 |
| 18 |
10/31 |
Neural nets/Naive Bayes |
AIMA 18.6-18.8 |
HW5 due 11/14 at 11:59pm |
-- |
| 19 |
11/5 |
Support Vector Machines |
AIMA 18.9, Andrew Ng Notes |
-- |
Extra Credit |
| 20 |
11/7 |
Ensembles |
AIMA 18.10-18.11 |
-- |
-- |
| 21 |
11/12 |
SL: Putting it all together |
AIMA 18.4 |
-- |
-- |
| 22 |
11/14 |
Clustering |
Information Retrieval Ch. 16, 17 |
-- |
HW5 |
| 23 |
11/19 |
Expectation Maximization |
AIMA 20.3 |
-- |
-- |
| 24 |
11/21 |
Quiz 2 |
-- |
-- |
-- |
| 25 |
11/26 |
Quiz review |
-- |
Final Projects |
-- |
| 26 |
11/28 |
Thanksgiving |
-- |
-- |
-- |
| 27 |
12/3 |
Reinforcement Learning |
AIMA 17.1-17.3, 21.1-21.3 |
-- |
-- |
| 28 |
12/5 |
AI: Philosophy and ethics |
-- |
-- |
-- |
| 29 |
12/10 |
Student project updates |
-- |
-- |
Rough drafts |
| 30 |
12/12 |
Reading week |
-- |
-- |
-- |
| 31 |
12/20 |
Final presentations |
-- |
-- |
Final drafts |
