Important Information
- Meeting times: Mondays and Wednesdays, Sec 01: 15:30-16:45, Sec 02: 17:00-18:15
- Room: Sec 01: Atrium 1031, Sec 02: Engineering Technology Center 104
Required Materials
- AIMA: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, 4ed, by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig, https://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/
Recommended Materials
- AICA: Artificial Intelligence: Foundations of Computational Agents, 3ed, by David Poole and Alan Mackworth, https://artint.info/3e/html/ArtInt3e.html
- AIPP: Artificial Intelligence: Principles and Practice, by George Luger, https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-57437-5
Schedule
| Date | Topics | Reading/Resources | Exercises | Assignments | Reminders |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artificial Intelligence | |||||
| Week 1 | |||||
| 2025-08-18 | Introduction to AI |
Syllabus Meet Prof. Simpkins AIMA: 1 |
Assigned: PA0 | ||
| 2025-08-20 | Intelligent Agents | AIMA: 2 |
Registration Ends (2025-08-22) Payment Deadline (2025-08-22) |
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| Problem-Solving | |||||
| Week 2 | |||||
| 2025-08-25 | Problem Solving by Searching | AIMA: 3.1-3.4 |
Due: PA0 Assigned: PA1 |
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| 2025-08-27 | Heuristic Search | AIMA: 3.5-3.6 | Financial Aid Disbursement (2025-08-29) | ||
| Week 3 | |||||
| 2025-09-01 | Labor Day - No Class | ||||
| 2025-09-03 | Local Search | AIMA: 4 | |||
| Week 4 | |||||
| 2025-09-08 | Adversarial Search | AIMA: 5 | |||
| 2025-09-10 | Constraint Satisfaction | AIMA: 6 | |||
| Knowledge, Reasoning, and Planning | |||||
| Week 5 | |||||
| 2025-09-15 | Propositional Logic | AIMA: 7.1-7.5 |
Due: PA1 Assigned: PA2 |
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| 2025-09-17 | Logical Agents | AIMA: 7.6-7.7 | |||
| Week 6 | |||||
| 2025-09-22 | First Order Logic | AIMA: 8 | |||
| 2025-09-24 | Knowledge Representation | AIMA: 10 | |||
| Week 7 | |||||
| 2025-09-29 | Classical Planning | AIMA: 11.1-11.4 | |||
| 2025-10-01 | Planning and Acting | AIMA: 11.5-11.7 | |||
| Week 8 | |||||
| 2025-10-06 | Midterm Review | AIMA: 1-11 | Due: PA2 | ||
| 2025-10-08 | Midterm Exam | AIMA: 1-11 | |||
| Uncertain Knowledge and Reasoning | |||||
| Week 9 | |||||
| 2025-10-13 | Quantifying Uncertainty | AIMA: 12 | Assigned: PA3 | ||
| 2025-10-15 | Bayesian Networks | AIMA: 13.1-13.3 | |||
| Week 10 | |||||
| 2025-10-20 | Bayesian Network Inference | AIMA: 13.4-13.5 | |||
| 2025-10-22 | Probabilistic Temporal Models | AIMA: 14.1-14.3 | Midterm Grades Due (2025-10-24) | ||
| Week 11 | |||||
| 2025-10-27 | State Estimation | AIMA: 14.4-14.5 | |||
| 2025-10-29 | Probabilistic Programming | AIMA: 15 | Withdrawal Deadline (2025-10-31) | ||
| Week 12 | |||||
| 2025-11-03 | Simple Decisions | AIMA: 16.1-16.5 |
Due: PA3 Assigned: PA4 |
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| 2025-11-05 | Decision Information | AIMA: 16.6-16.7 | |||
| Week 13 | |||||
| 2025-11-10 | Complex Decisions | AIMA: 17.1-17.2 | |||
| 2025-11-12 | Bandits POMDPs | AIMA: 17.3-17.5 | |||
| Week 14 | |||||
| 2025-11-17 | Multi-Agent Systems | AIMA: 18.1-18.2 | |||
| 2025-11-19 | Collective Decisions | AIMA: 18.3-18.4 | |||
| Machine Learning | |||||
| Week 15 | |||||
| 2025-11-24 | Thanksgiving - No Class | ||||
| 2025-11-26 | Thanksgiving - No Class | ||||
| Week 16 | |||||
| 2025-12-01 | Decision Trees | AIMA: 19.1-19.3 |
Due: PA4 Assigned: PA5 |
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| 2025-12-03 | Linear and Nonparametric Models | AIMA: 19.4-19.7 | |||
| Week 17 | |||||
| 2025-12-08 | Final Review | AIMA: 12-19 | Due: PA5 | ||
| 2025-12-10 | Final Exam | Sec 02: 18:00-20:00 | |||
| Week 18 | |||||
| 2025-12-15 | Final Exam | Sec 01: 15:30-17:30 | |||