The schedule has seven sections:
- Problem Solving by Search
- Knowledge and Reasoning
- Planning
- Uncertainty
- Machine Learning
- Unsupervised Learning
- Natural Language Processing
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   - Section 1: Problem Solving by Search, Friday, 9 September through Wednesday, 21 September.
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   - Readings
   
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   Poole and Mackworth: Chapter 3, States and Searching
    
  
  
   
- Class notes
   
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   Introduction
    
 What are Intelligent Systems?
 Solving by Search
 Basic State-Space Searches
 Search Refinements
 
- Section 2: Knowledge and Reasoning, Friday, 23 September through Wednesday, 5 October.
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   - Readings
   
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   Poole and Mackworth: Chapter 5, Propositions and Inference
    
  
  
   
- Class notes
   
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   Knowledge Bases
    
 Reasoning
 Advanced Representations
- Assignment
   
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   Assignment 1 available on Friday, 23 September; due
       on Wednesday, 19 October at 11:30 p.m.
    
  
  
   
- Quiz
   
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   Wednesday, 5 October
    
 The answers.
 The grades.
 
- Section 3: Planning, Friday,  7 October through Wednesday, 19 October.
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   - Readings
   
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   Poole and Mackworth: Chapter 8, Planning with Certainty
    
  
  
   
- Class notes
   
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   Planning
    
 Planning Examples
 Basic Planning
 Advanced Planning
 
- Section 4: Uncertainty, Friday, 21 October through Wednesday, 2 November.
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   - Midterms grades due
   — Tuesday, 25 October.
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- Readings
   
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   Poole and Mackworth: Chapter 6, Reasoning Under Uncertainty
    
  
  
   
- Class notes
   
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   Uncertainty
    
 Belief Networks
 Probabilistic Inference
 Markov Models
- Assignment
   
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   Assignment 2 available on Friday, 21 October; due
       on Wednesday, 16 November at 11:30 p.m.
    
  
  
   
- Quiz
   
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   Wednesday, 2 November
    
 The answers.
 The grades.
 
- Section 5: Machine Learning, Friday, 4 November through Wednesday, 16 November.
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   - Drop day
   — Tuesday, 8 November.
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- Readings
   
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   Poole and Mackworth: Chapter 7, Learning: Overview and Supervised Learning
    
  
  
   
- Class notes
   
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   Introduction
    
 Basic Learning
 Advanced Learning
 
- Section 6: Unsupervised Learning, Friday, 18 November through Wednesday,  30 November.
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   - Readings
   
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   Poole and Mackworth: Chapter 11, Beyond Supervised Learning
    
  
  
   
- Class notes
   
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   Clustering
    
 Learning Belief Networks
 Markov Decision Processes
 Reinforcement Learning
- Assignment
   
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   Assignment 3 available on Friday, 18 November; due
       on Wednesday, 14 December at 11:30 p.m.
    
  
  
   
- Quiz
   
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   Wednesday,  30 November
    
 The answers.
 The grades.
 
- Section 7: Natural Language Processing, Friday, 2 December through Wednesday, 14 December.
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   - Readings
   
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   The Role of Frame-Based
    Representation in Reasoning by Richard Fikes and Tom Kehler in
    Communications of the ACM, September 1985 (v. 28, n. 9)
    
  
  
   
- Class notes
   
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   Frames
    
 Description Logics
 
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  Final exam from 1-3 p.m. on Tuesday, 21 December in
  HH 316.