The schedule has seven sections:
- AI & Agents
- Search-Based Reasoning
- Constraint-Based Reasoning
- Propositional Reasoning
- Reasoning With Uncertainty
- Supervised Learning
- Unsupervised Learning
   
   
   
   
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   - Section 1: AI & Agents, Tuesday, 20 January through Thursday, 29 January.
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     First day
     — Tuesday, 20 January.
   
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     Readings
     
   
- Poole and Mackworth: Chapter 1, AI & Agents
    
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     Podcasts
     
   
- Course Introduction (0
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 What are intelligent systems? (0
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- Section 2: Search-Based Reasoning, Friday, 30 January through Thursday, 12 February.
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     Readings
     
   
- Poole and Mackworth: Chapter 3, States and Searching
    
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     Podcasts
     
   
- States and State-Space Graphs (0
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 Generic Graph-Search Algorithm (0
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 Uninformed Graph-Search Algorithms (0
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 Advanced Graph-Search Algorithms (0
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     Assignment 1
     — available Friday, 30 January; due Thursday, 12 February
   at 11:50 p.m.
    
   
- The assignment (last modified on 2015 February 3).
    
 An example solution.
 A live-coding session.
 The grades.
 
- Section 3: Constraint-Based Reasoning, Friday, 13 February through Thursday, 26 February.
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     Readings
     
   
- Poole and Mackworth: Chapter 4, Features and Constraints
    
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     Podcasts
     
   
- Features and Constraints (0
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 Constraint Satisfaction (0
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     Assignment 2
     — available Friday, 13 February; due Thursday, 26 February
   at 11:50 p.m.
    
   
- The assignment (last modified on 2015 February 19).
    
 The grades.
 
- Section 4: Propositional Reasoning, Friday, 27 February through Thursday, 12 March.
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     Readings
     
   
- Poole and Mackworth: Chapter 5, Propositions and Inference
    
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     Assignment 3
     — available Friday, 27 February; due Thursday, 19 March
   at 11:50 p.m.
    
   
- The assignment (last modified on 2015 March 7).
    
 
- Section 5: Reasoning With Uncertainty, Friday, 13 March through Thursday, 2 April.
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     No class
     — Tuesday, 17 March and
  Thursday, 19 March, Spring break.
   
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     Drop day
     — Monday, 30 March.
   
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     Readings
     
   
- Poole and Mackworth: Chapter 6, Reasoning Under Uncertainty
    
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     Assignment 4
     — available Friday, 13 March; due Thursday, 2 April
   at 11:50 p.m.
   
 
- Section 6: Supervised Learning, Friday, 3 April through Thursday,  16 April.
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     Readings
     
   
- Poole and Mackworth: Chapter 7, Learning: Overview and Supervised Learning
    
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     Assignment 5
     — available Friday, 3 April; due Thursday,  16 April
   at 11:50 p.m.
   
 
- Section 7: Unsupervised Learning, Friday, 17 April through Thursday, 30 April.
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     Last day
     — Thursday, 30 April.
   
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     Readings
     
   
- Poole and Mackworth: Chapter 11, Beyond Supervised Learning
    
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     Assignment 6
     — available Friday, 17 April; due Thursday, 30 April
   at 11:50 p.m.
   
 
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