| Date | Topic | Required Reading | Notes | Assignments Out | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8/28 | Introduction, history of AI, agents | chapters 1, 2 | Project 0, due on Moodle on 9/4, 11:59pm | slides | |
| 9/2 | State space search, uninformed search | 3.1-3.4 | slides | ||
| 9/4 | Continue uninformed search, heuristic search | 3.5 | Project 1, due on Moodle on 9/21, 11:59pm | slides | |
| 9/9 | Finish search (heuristics, DFS, iterative deepening) | 3.6 | slides | ||
| 9/11 | Local search | 4.1 | slides | ||
| 9/16 | Constraint satisfaction problems | 6.1-6.4 | Homework 1, due in hard copy at the start of class on 9/30. | slides | |
| 9/18 | CSP wrapup, adversarial search I | 5.1-5.2 | slides | ||
| 9/23 | Adversarial search II: alpha-beta pruning | 5.3 | slides | ||
| 9/25 | Adversarial search III: heuristics | 5.4, 5.5 | Project 2, due on Moodle on 10/9, 11:59pm | slides | |
| 9/30 | Probability I | 13.1-13.3 | (no slides) | ||
| 10/2 | Probability II | 13.4-13.5 | (no slides) | ||
| 10/7 | Bayes nets I | 14.1, 14.2 | (no slides) | ||
| 10/9 | Bayes nets II (exact inference) | 14.3 | (no slides) | ||
| 10/14 | Bayes nets III (approximate inference) | 14.4 | Homework 2, due in hard copy at the start of class on 10/23. | (no slides) | |
| 10/16 | Statistical inference: ML and MAP | slides | |||
| 10/21 | (Fall break) | ||||
| 10/23 | Statistical inference: Combining evidence | slides | |||
| 10/28 | (Midterm) | ||||
| 10/30 | (No class, prof at conference) | ||||
| 11/4 | Naive Bayes classifiers | Project 3, due on Moodle on 11/18, 11:59pm | slides | ||
| 11/6 | Markov chains | slides | |||
| 11/11 | Hidden Markov models | slides | |||
| 11/13 | More HMMs | slides | |||
| 11/18 | Reinforcement learning | Homework 3, due in hard copy at the start of class on 12/2. | slides | ||
| 11/20 | RL: Value iteration | slides | |||
| 11/25 | RL: Value iteration practice | slides | |||
| 11/27 | (Thanksgiving) | ||||
| 12/2 | RL: Q-learning | Project 4, due on Moodle on 12/17, 11:59pm | slides | ||
| 12/4 | RL: Q-learning practice | slides | |||
| 12/9 | Wrapup | slides |