| CS494/594 home page | Syllabus | Schedule/Readings | Homework Assignments | Piazza Discussions |
| Date | Topics | Readings | Lecture Notes | HW Assigned | HW Due |
| Thurs. 8/22 | Introduction to AI | Ch. 1 | Slides-Aug-22 | ||
| Tues. 8/27 | Intelligent Agents | Ch. 2 | Slides-Aug-27 | ||
| Thurs. 8/29 | Solving Problems by Searching | Ch. 3.1-3.4 | Slides-Aug- 29 | HW-1 | Sept. 5 |
| Tues. 9/03 | Informed Search Stratgies | Ch. 3.5-3.6 | Slides-Sept-3 | ||
| Thurs. 9/05 | Searching with nondeterministic actions Searching with partial observations Online search and unknown environments |
Ch. 4.3-4.5 | Slides-Sept-5 | HW-2 | Sept. 12 |
| Tues. 9/10 | Adversarial Search: Games Optimal decisions in games Alpha-beta pruning Imperfect real-time decisions |
Ch. 5.1-5.4 | Slides-Sept-10 | ||
| Thurs. 9/12 | Adversarial Search (con't) | Slides-Sept-12 (repeats a lot of slides from previous class) |
HW-3 | Sept. 19 Dec. 3 | |
| Tues. 9/17 | Adversarial Search (con't) Logical agents |
Ch. 5.5-5.9 Ch. 7.1-7.2 |
(See Sept. 12 slides) | ||
| Thurs. 9/19 | Logical agents (con't) | Ch. 7.3-7.5 | (See slides from previous class) | HW-4 | Sept. 26 |
| Tues. 9/24 | Logical agents (con't) | Ch. 7.6-7.7 | (See slides from 9/17 class) | ||
| Thurs. 9/26 | First order logic | Ch. 8 | Slides-Sept-26 | HW-5 | Oct. 1, 3 Oct. 10 |
| Tues. 10/01 | Examples of FOL sentences Discussion of HW 6 -- IDA* |
Ch. 8
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| Thurs. 10/03 | Inference in first order logic | Ch. 9 | Slides-Oct-3 | HW-6 Part 2 (Grad Students) |
Oct. 10 |
| Tues. 10/08 | Practical applications of logic | Ch. 8.4.2 | Slides-Oct-8 | ||
| Thurs. 10/10 | Classical Planning | Ch. 10 | Slides-Oct-10-15 | HW-7 | Oct. 22 Oct. 24 |
| Tues. 10/15 | Classical Planning (con't.) | Ch. 10 | (See slides from previous class) | ||
| Thurs. 10/17 | Fall Break, no class | ||||
| Tues. 10/22 | Planning/Acting in the Real World | Ch. 11 | Slides-Oct-22 | HW-9 | Nov. 7 |
| Thurs. 10/24 | Engineering Day; undergrads excused; grad students will meet
AI Philosophical Debates |
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| Tues. 10/29 | Natural Language -- Motivation Overview of IBM's Watson |
Extra reading: "Building Watson: An Overview of the DeepQA Project" Ch. 13 |
Slides-Oct-29 (Watson) | ||
| Thurs. 10/31 | Quantifying Uncertainty | Ch. 13 | Slides-Oct-31 (Ch. 13) | ||
| Tues. 11/05 | Probabilistic reasoning over time | Ch. 15.1-15.3 | Slides-Nov-5 | ||
| Thurs. 11/07 | Probabilistic reasoning over time (con't.) | Ch. 15.1-15.3 | Slides-Nov-7 | HW 10 | Nov. 14 |
| Tues. 11/12 | Language models Natural language for communication |
Ch. 22.1 | Slides-Nov-12 | ||
| Thurs. 11/14 | Natural lang. for comm. | Ch. 23 | Slides-Nov-14 | HW 11 | Nov. 21 |
| Tues. 11/19 | Natural lang. for comm. (con't.) | Ch. 23 | Slides-Nov-19 | ||
| Thurs. 11/21 | Tour of DILab (Meet in MK629; undergrads at 11:10 grads at 11:50) |
HW 12 | Dec. 3 | ||
| Tues. 11/26 | Natural lang. for comm. (con't.) | Ch. 23 | Slides-Nov-26 | ||
| Thurs. 11/28 | Thanksgiving! (no class) Happy Turkey Day! |
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| Tues. 12/03 | Last class Natural lang. for comm. (con't.) Course wrap-up (No final exam) |
Ch. 23 | Slides-Dec-3 |