The schedule has seven sections:
- AI & Agents
- Search-Based Reasoning
- Constraint-Based Reasoning
- Propositional Reasoning
- Reasoning With Uncertainty
- Supervised Learning
- Unsupervised Learning
• indicates an assignment due day.
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Note: The phrase “X through Y” means “from the
beginning of X to the end of Y.”
- 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
mbyte), P&M sections 3.1 through 3.3.1.
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
mbyte), P&M sections 4.1 & 3.2.
Constraint Satisfaction (0
mbyte), P&M section 3.3 & 3.4.
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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.
Open Lecture on a topic to be determined at a time to be determined on a date to be determined in a location to be determined.
