Important Information
- Meeting times: Mondays and Wednesdays, Sec 01: 15:30-16:45
- Room: Sec 01: Engineering Technology Center 105
Required Materials
- AIMA: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, 4ed, by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig, https://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/. US or Global Edition
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 |
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| Artificial Intelligence | |||||
| Week 1 | |||||
| 2025-08-18 | Introduction to the Course |
Syllabus Resources Meet Prof. Simpkins |
Assigned: PA0 | ||
| 2025-08-20 | Introduction to AI | AIMA: 1 |
Introduction to AI Questions Introduction to AI Answers |
Registration Ends (2025-08-22) Payment Deadline (2025-08-22) |
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| Week 2 | |||||
| 2025-08-25 | Intelligent Agents | AIMA: 2 |
Intelligent Agents Questions Intelligent Agents Answers |
Due: PA0 | |
| Problem Solving | |||||
| 2025-08-27 | Problem Solving | AIMA: 3.1-3.4 |
Problem Solving Questions Problem Solving Answers |
Assigned: PA1 | Financial Aid Disbursement (2025-08-29) |
| Week 3 | |||||
| 2025-09-01 | Labor Day - No Class | ||||
| 2025-09-03 | Heuristic Search | AIMA: 3.5-3.6 |
Heuristic Search Questions Heuristic Search Answers |
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| Week 4 | |||||
| 2025-09-08 | Local Search | AIMA: 4.1-4.2 |
Local Search Questions Local Search Answers |
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| 2025-09-10 | Nondeterministic Search | AIMA: 4.3-4.5 |
Local Search Questions Local Search Answers |
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| Knowledge, Reasoning, and Planning | |||||
| Week 5 | |||||
| 2025-09-15 | Adversarial Search | AIMA: 5 |
Adversarial Search Questions Adversarial Search Answers |
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| 2025-09-17 | Adversarial Search | AIMA: 5 |
Adversarial Search Questions Adversarial Search Answers |
Due: PA1 Assigned: PA2 |
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| Week 6 | |||||
| 2025-09-22 | Knowledge-Based AI | AIMA: 7-10 |
Knowledge-Based AI Questions Knowledge-Based AI Answers |
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| 2025-09-24 | Planning | AIMA: 11 |
Planning Questions Planning Answers |
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| Week 7 | |||||
| 2025-09-29 | Midterm Review | AIMA: 1-11 | |||
| 2025-10-01 | Midterm Exam | AIMA: 1-11 | |||
| Uncertain Knowledge and Reasoning | |||||
| Week 8 | |||||
| 2025-10-06 | Uncertainty | AIMA: 12 | |||
| 2025-10-08 | Uncertainty | AIMA: 12 |
Due: PA2 Assigned: PA3 |
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| Week 9 | |||||
| 2025-10-13 | Bayesian Networks | AIMA: 13.1-13.2 | |||
| 2025-10-15 | Probabilistic Inference | AIMA: 13.3-13.4 | |||
| Interlude: AI and Society | |||||
| Week 10 | |||||
| 2025-10-20 | AI Ethics | ||||
| 2025-10-22 | Value Alignment | ||||
| Agents in Uncertain Environments | |||||
| Week 11 | |||||
| 2025-10-27 | Probabilistic Temporal Reasoning | AIMA: 14.1-14.3 | |||
| 2025-10-29 | Probabilistic Temporal Reasoning | AIMA: 14.1-14.3 | Withdrawal Deadline (2025-10-31) | ||
| Week 12 | |||||
| 2025-11-03 | Simple Decisions | AIMA: 16 | |||
| 2025-11-05 | Simple Decisions | AIMA: 16 | |||
| Week 13 | |||||
| 2025-11-10 | Markov Decision Processes |
AIMA: 17 AIMA Ch 17 Slides |
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| 2025-11-12 | Markov Decision Processes |
AIMA: 17 AIMA Ch 17 Slides |
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| Week 14 | |||||
| 2025-11-17 | Machine Learning | AIMA: 19.1-19.6 |
Due: PA3 Assigned: PA4 |
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| 2025-11-19 | Temporal-Difference Learning |
AIMA: 22 RLAI: 6 |
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| Week 15 | |||||
| 2025-11-24 | Thanksgiving - No Class | ||||
| 2025-11-26 | Thanksgiving - No Class | ||||
| Machine Learning | |||||
| Week 16 | |||||
| 2025-12-01 | Multi-Agent Systems | AIMA: 18.1-18.2 | |||
| 2025-12-03 | Collective Decisions | AIMA: 18.3-18.4 | |||
| Week 17 | |||||
| 2025-12-08 | Final Review | AIMA: 12-21.2,22 | Due: PA4 | ||
| 2025-12-15 | Final Exam | Sec 01: 15:30-17:30 | |||