CAP 4630 Artificial Intelligence


Course Calendar (tentative)

All reading sections refer to Russell and Norvig's book.
Class # Date Lecture Topic Reading Assignments Resources, and Additional Readings
Week 1
1 8/25 Intro & History of AI
Ch 1
2 8/27 Agents
Ch. 2
Week 2
3 9/1 Uninformed Search: Tree Search, BFS, DFS
Sec. 3.1-3.2
4 9/3 Uninformed Search: Informed Search: Greedy, A* Sec. 3.1-3.2
Week 3
5 9/8 Constraint Satisfaction Problems
Ch. 6
6 9/10 Constraint Satisfaction Problems
Ch. 6
Week 4
7 9/15Logical Agents
Ch. 7
8 9/17 Logical Agents
Ch. 7
Week 5
9 9/22 Adversarial Search
Ch. 5
10 9/24 Adversarial Search
Ch 5
Week 6
11 9/29
Probability
Ch 13
12 10/1 Probability
Ch 13
Week 7
13 10/6 Bayesian Inference and Bayesian Learning Ch 13
14 10/8 Decision Theory
Sec 16.1-16.3
Week 8
15 10/13 Markov Decision Process Ch 17
16 10/15 Reinforcement Learning
Ch 21
Week 9
1710/20 Reinforcement Learning
Ch 21
18 10/22 Reinforcement Learning Ch 21
Week 10
19 10/27 Midterm
Ch 21
20 10/29 Machine Learning: Intro and Decision Trees Ch 18
Week 11
21 11/3
Machine Learning: Decision Trees
Ch 18
22 11/5 Machine Learning: Linear Regression
Ch 18
Week 12
23 11/10 Machine Learning: Artificial Neural Networks
Ch 18
24 11/12 Machine Learning: Non parametric models
Ch 18
Week 13
25 11/17 Hidden Markov Models
Ch 15
26 11/19 Hidden Markov Models
Ch 15
Week 14
27 11/24 Hidden Markov Models Ch 15
2811/26 Thanksgiving
Sec 7.5
Week 15
29 12/3
29 12/5