CS 511A: Introduction to AI, Fall 2004 Syllabus


Place: Cupples II 217
Time: MW, 1:00-2:30pm
Instructor: Weixiong Zhang
Text book: Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, Prentice Hall, 2nd Edition, 2003.
note: the schedule may change based on progresses in class.

Mon
Topic
HW & Reading
Wed
Topic
HW & Reading

   
9/1

Introduction

Chp 1,10
9/6
Labor Day (no class)  
9/8

Representation and rule-based systems

Chp 10
9/13
Logic and inference
Chp 7
9/15
Propositional logic

9/20

Propositional & first-order logic

Chp 7, 8
9/22

First-order logic

Chp 8, 9
9/27
First-order logic HW 1
9/29
Heuristic search Chp 3, 4; 
10/4
Heuristic search

10/6
Heuristic search HW 1 due
 
10/11
Heuristic search
10/13

Local search and simulated annealing


10/18

Genetic algorithms


10/20
Constraint satisfaction problems handout  porject; Chp 5, HW 2
10/25
Adversarial search
10/27
Adversarial search,
Ants Colony Systems

11/1
Planning Reading Chp 11
11/3
Planning HW 2 due

11/8

Planning

HW 3
11/10

Planning, Uncertainty



11/15

Statistical inference


11/17
Bayesian networks

HW 3 due

11/22
Bayesian networks HW 4
11/24

Thanksgiving (no class)


11/29
Decision tree learning/Classification
12/1

Statistical learning

HW 4 due
12/6
Statistical learning; clustering
HW 5
12/8

Clustering
review of AI, other topics


12/13

HW 5 due
12/15

Project due: report and programs