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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
