Computer Science 151
Artificial Intelligence
Spring 2014

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Lecture Date Topic Reading Assigned Due
1 1/22 Introduction to AI AIMA 1 HW1 due 1/24 by 11:59pm --
2 1/24 Rational agents and Uninformed search AIMA 2.1-2.3, 3.1 -- HW1
3 1/27 Uninformed search AIMA 3 HW2 due 2/10 by 11:59pm --
4 1/29 Informed search and heuristics AIMA 3 -- --
5 1/31 Heuristics and local search AIMA 4.1-4.2 -- --
6 2/3 Local search AIMA 4.1-4.2 -- --
7 2/5 Adversarial search AIMA 5.1-5.5 -- --
8 2/7 Adversarial search AIMA 5.7-5.8 -- --
9 2/10 Adversarial search AIMA 5.7-5.8 HW3 due 2/24 by 11:59pm HW2
10 2/12 Constraint Satisfaction (CSPs) AIMA 6 -- --
11 2/14 CSPs AIMA 6 -- --
12 2/17 Probability AIMA 13 -- --
13 2/19 Probability AIMA 13 -- --
14 2/21 Independence and Bayesian Networks AIMA 13, 14.1-14.3 -- --
15 2/24 Bayesian Networks AIMA 14.1-14.3 -- --
16 2/26 Exact Inference in BNs AIMA 14.4-14.5 HW4 due 3/7 by 11:59pm HW3
17 2/28 Approximate Inference in BNs AIMA 14.4-14.5 -- --
18 3/3 Approximate Inference in BNs AIMA 15.1-15.2, 15.5 -- --
19 3/5 Hidden Markov Models AIMA 15.1-15.2, 15.5 -- --
20 3/7 Hidden Markov Models AIMA 15.1-15.2, 15.5 -- HW4
21 3/10 Approx. Inference in DBNs -- HW5 due 3/31 by 11:59pm --
22 3/12 Midterm Exam 1 -- -- --
23 3/14 Inference in DBN (Practice) -- -- --
24 3/17 Spring Break -- -- --
25 3/19 Spring Break -- -- --
26 3/21 Spring Break -- -- --
27 3/24 Intro. to SL, Naive Bayes AIMA 18.1-18.2, 20.2.2 -- --
28 3/26 Naive Bayes, Decision Trees AIMA 18.3-18.4 -- --
29 3/28 Cesar Chavez Day -- -- --
30 3/31 (Finish Decision Trees) Perceptrons AIMA 18.6-18.7 HW6 due 4/14 by 11:59pm HW5
31 4/2 Neural Networks AIMA 18.6-18.7 -- --
32 4/4 (Finish neural networks) Linear SVMs AIMA 18.9 -- --
33 4/7 Support Vector Machines AIMA 18.9 -- --
34 4/9 Support Vector Machines AIMA 18.9 -- --
35 4/11 Ensemble Methods AIMA 18.10 - 18.11 -- --
36 4/14 SL: Putting it all together AIMA 18.10 -- HW6
37 4/16 Clustering IR Ch. 16, 17 -- --
38 4/18 Clustering IR Ch. 16, 17 Final Projects!
39 4/21 Expectation Maximization IR Ch. 16, 17 -- --
40 4/23 AI: Philosophy and Ethics -- -- --
41 4/25 Midterm Exam 2 -- -- --
42 4/28 Final Project Progress Reports -- -- --
43 4/30 Work on final projects -- -- --
44 5/2 Work on final projects -- -- --
45 5/5 Student Final Projects -- -- --
46 5/7 (Last Day!) Student Final Projects -- -- --

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