Date Topic Notes Reading Due Today Slides
Aug 25 Introduction and course overview HW 0 assigned Chapter 1 Lecture 1
Aug 27 Introduction to AI applications Lecture 2
Aug 29 Search in AI HW 0 Lecture 3
Sept 1 No class: Labor day
Sept 3 Problem solving as search Chapter 3 Lecture 4
Sept 5 Heuristic search HW 1 assigned, HW1 solutions Lecture 5
Sept 8 Heuristic search (cont) Chapter 4 Lecture 6
Sept 10 Local search Lecture 7
Sept 12 Constraint satisfaction Chapter 5 HW 1 Lecture 8
Sept 15 CSPs (cont) Lecture 9
Sept 17 Adversarial search Chapter 6 Lecture 10
Sept 19 Intro to IR HW 2 assigned Guest Lecture
Sept 22 Adversarial search (cont) Lecture 11
Sept 24 Probability and uncertainty Chapter 13 Lecture 12
Sept 26 Probability (cont) Lecture 13
Sept 29 Representing uncertain knowledge Chapter 14 HW 2 Lecture 14
Oct 1 Bayesian networks Lecture 15
Oct 3 Reasoning with uncertain knowledge HW 3 assigned, HW3 solutions Lecture 16
Oct 6 Exact inference algorithms Lecture 17
Oct 8 Approximate inference algorithms Lecture 18
Oct 10 Approximate inference algorithms (cont) HW 3 Lecture 19
Oct 13 No class: Oct break
Oct 15 Learning as search Chapter 18 Lecture 20
Oct 17 Learning CPDs Lecture 21
Oct 20 Midterm review Review notes Review
Oct 22 Midterm: 8-10pm UNIV 317 No class; Midterm solutions
Oct 24 No class
Oct 27 Invited speaker: Leslie Kaelbling No class; go to DLS at 3:30pm
Oct 29 Classification trees HW 4 assigned Chapter 20 Lecture 22
Oct 31 Trees (cont) Lecture 23
Nov 3 Overfitting and evaluation Lecture 24
Nov 5 Learning conditional probability distributions Lecture 25
Nov 7 Learning joint probability distributions HW 4 Lecture 26
Nov 10 Learning JPDs (cont) Lecture 27
Nov 12 Learning pathologies Lecture 28
Nov 14 Representing certain knowledge HW 5 assigned, HW5 solutions Chapter 7 Lecture 29
Nov 17 Propositional logic Lecture 30
Nov 19 Reasoning with propositional logic Chapter 8 Lecture 31
Nov 21 First-order logic Lecture 32
Nov 24 Logical inference Chapter 9 HW 5 Lecture 33
Nov 26 No class: Thanksgiving
Nov 28 No class: Thanksgiving
Dec 1 Logical inference (cont) HW 6 assigned, HW6 solutions Lecture 34
Dec 3 Class cancelled
Dec 5 Learning with logic Lecture 35
Dec 8 Representing logic and probabilities HW 6 Lecture 36
Dec 10 Reasoning with logic and probabilities Lecture 37
Dec 12 Final review Review notes 2 Review 2