CS 221
Artificial Intelligence: Principles & Techniques
Handout #2: Tentative Course Syllabus

Course Calendar

Date

Content

Readings
Tu 9/22 Lecture 1: Logistics, History of AI, Agents 1.2, 25.1, 25.2, 25.8
ROBOTICS & SEARCH
Th 9/24 Lecture 2: Robotics, Motion planning, Basic search 25.4, 3.1-3.5, 3.7
Tu 9/29 Lecture 3: Heuristic search: A* 4.1-4.2
Th 10/1 Lecture 4: Optimization search 4.2-4.4, 4.6
Tu 10/6 Lecture 5: CSPs 5.1-5.3
MACHINE LEARNING
Th 10/8 Lecture 6: Supervised learning, Linear classifiers 18.1, 18.2, 20.5
Tu 10/13 Lecture 7: Decision trees 18.3, 18.5, 18.6
Th 10/15 Lecture 8: Reinforcement learning 17.1-17.2, 21.1-21.4
COMPUTER VISION
Tu 10/20 Lecture 9: Vision: Features & Object recognition 24.1, 24.3, 24.5
Th 10/22 Lecture 10: Vision: Geometry 24.2, 24.4
PROBABILISTIC REASONING
Tu 10/27 Lecture 11: Bayesian networks 14.1, 14.2
Th 10/29 Lecture 12: Inference in Bayesian networks 14.4
Tu 11/3 Lecture 13: Learning in Bayesian networks 20.2, 20.3
Th 11/5 Lecture 14: Undirected probabilistic models
APPLICATIONS
Tu 11/10 Lecture 15: Robotics: Perception 15.1-15.3, 25.3
Th 11/12 Lecture 16: Natural Language Processing: Text categorization; Information extraction 23
Th 11/12 MIDTERM (6 pm)
Tu 11/17 Lecture 17: Natural Language Processing: Speech. 15.6
THE AI DREAM
Th 11/19 Lecture 18: Logical knowledge representation 8.2-8.4
Tu 12/1 Lecture 19: AI and the brain
Th 12/3 Lecture 20: Conclusion
F 12/11 PROJECT PRESENTATIONS (12:15pm-3:15pm)

Readings specified are from the course textbook (Russell & Norvig, Second Edition).

Important Dates
  1. Assignment 1: Out 9/29. Due 10/13.
  2. Assignment 2: Out 10/13. Due 10/27.
  3. Assignment 3: Out 10/27. Due 11/10.
  4. Assignment 4: Out 11/10. Due 12/1.
  5. Project:
    1. Out 9/29.
    2. Team list/project proposals due 10/9.
    3. Milestone due 10/20.
    4. Code submission by 12/10, 12:15pm for competition (no late days).
    5. Final project competition on 12/11 (12:15-3:15pm).
    6. Final writeups due 12/11, 11:59pm (no late days).
  6. Midterm: 11/12, 6pm.
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