Welcome to the website for CS 121: Introduction to Artificial
Intelligence, for the summer quarter of 2008. For questions or
comments, please contact the teaching staff at cs121-sum0708-staff
.
Announcements
08/13/2008: A list of topics/skills/knowledge you should have for the final exam is available on the Handouts page. It’s not exhaustive, but it should cover the vast majority of things you should need to know.
08/13/2008: Jeremy’s office hours for today, 13 Aug 2008, are canceled, as is the work session. There will also be no recitation section on Friday, 15 Aug 2008. To make up for this, Jeremy will be holding extended office hours on Friday, 15 Aug 2008, from 2pm-6pm, in Gates 463a. If you cannot make these office hours, but have questions or would like to go over specific topics, please email the staff list and we may be able to arrange an alternate time. Finally, the review slides presented at the beginning of each class for the second half of the course have been posted on the Handouts page. Also, if you have specific topics you would like to see covered at the review on Thursday, 14 Aug 2008, please email the staff list.
08/06/2008: Homework 6 has been released. It is due Tuesday, August 12th, in class. The data for the optional programming problem can be downloaded here. Additionally, there will be a work session tonight, in Gates 167, from 8pm-10pm.
08/02/2008: A set of probability and Bayes net practice problems and solutions has been released. You can also access them via the Handouts page.
07/31/2008: The first work session tonight will be held in Gates 100, from 7:30pm (or so) to 10:00pm on July 31st. Gates 100 is one of the two conference rooms on the first floor that are accessible via the card-key entrance (the semi-circular entrance at the very corner of the building). If you need help getting in, feel free to call my cell phone (listed on the Contact Page), but please try knocking first.
07/30/2008: Homework 5 has been released. It is due Tuesday, August 5th, in class. The data for the optional programming problem can be downloaded here and here.
07/24/2008: The reading assignments for the rest of the class have been posted on the Reading page. Also, there will be a group work session/office hours on Wednesday evenings, from 8pm-10pm, in a room TBD. Finally, someone left a water bottle near the front of class today. If it’s yours, I’ll be in Duand until 5pm today for you to pick it up.
07/22/2008: Homework 4 has been released. It is due Tuesday, July 29th, in class.
07/17/2008: Practice problems for the midterm have been posted on the Handouts page.
07/15/2008: Just a reminder that the midterm will be next week, in class. For more information, see the Exams page. Also, you can now pick up graded homework in the box near the homework drop-box (as well as in class). Solutions to both homework 1 and 2 have been emailed out – if you did not receive them, please email the staff list. Additionally, the review slides presented at the beginning of each class have been posted on the Handouts page.
07/12/2008: Another clarification for Homework 3, problem 1: each of the letters in the cryptarithmetic problem should have a unique value, just as in the last problem of homework 2. The revised homework making this explicit has been posted to the website.
07/09/2008: A student has caught a typo in Homework 3, problem 1. In defining CP, step (c) should read “For each variable X in V, if a value v in the…” (It used to read “For each variable X in S, if a value v in the…”) The version on the website is now the correct version.
07/08/2008: Homework 3 has been released. It is due Tuesday, July 15th, in class. Additionally, Andrew will be holding additional office hours on Thursdays from 9-11am.
07/04/2008: Homework 2 has been modified, since we didn’t get to cover CSP-Backtracking in class. It is still due Tuesday, July 8th, in class.
07/01/2008: Homework 2 has been released. It is due Tuesday, July 8th, in class. Additionally, the homework drop-off box location has changed. It is now in the lobby of Gates on the side of the building with the CS administrative offices. It is in the locked file cabinet labeled “CS 121” and located next to the table with handouts. The map has been updated.
06/27/2008: Lecture slides are now going to be posted on the Schedule page (just click on the number links in the right-most column). I will attempt to post them at least the day before the lecture.
06/26/2008: The course finally has a TA, Andrew Baine! His office hours will be Mondays 1-5pm in Gates B24A. Additionally, a drop-off box for homework has been set up, on the first floor of Gates (as denoted by the red box on this map.
06/25/2008: Homework 1 has been released. It is due Tuesday, July 1st, in class.
06/25/2008: The course website is finally up. Additionally, the course syllabus has been posted to the Handouts page
