Artificial Intelligence
CS 3642 - Fall 2026
Important Information
- Meeting times: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 16:10 - 17:30
- Room: Sec 01: ???
Required Materials
- AIMA: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, 4ed, by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig, https://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/. US or Global Edition
- PMLAI: Probabilistic Machine Learning: An Introduction https://probml.github.io/pml-book/book1.html
- RLAI: Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction http://incompleteideas.net/book/the-book.html
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 | |||||
| 2026-08-25 | Introduction to AI |
Syllabus Resources Meet Prof. Simpkins AIMA: 1 |
Introduction to AI Questions Introduction to AI Answers |
Assigned: PA0 | |
| 2026-08-27 | Intelligent Agents | AIMA: 2 |
Intelligent Agents Questions Intelligent Agents Answers |
Graduation Petition Deadline (2026-08-28) Unpaid Course Deletion (2026-08-28) |
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| Problem Solving | |||||
| Week 2 | |||||
| 2026-09-01 | Problem Solving |
AIMA: 3.1-3.4 Video: Uninformed Search from UCB |
Problem Solving Questions Problem Solving Answers |
Due: PA0 Assigned: PA1 |
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| 2026-09-03 | Heuristic Search |
AIMA: 3.5-3.6 Video: A*, Heuristics from UCB |
Heuristic Search Questions Heuristic Search Answers |
Financial Aid Disbursement (2026-09-04) | |
| Week 3 | |||||
| 2026-09-08 | Local Search |
AIMA: 4.1-4.2 Video: Local Search from ICB (starting at 50:30) |
Local Search Questions Local Search Answers |
Unpaid Course Deletion (2026-09-08) | |
| 2026-09-10 | Nondeterministic Search | AIMA: 4.3-4.5 |
Local Search Questions Local Search Answers |
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| Week 4 | |||||
| 2026-09-15 | Adversarial Search |
AIMA: 5 Video: Minimax, α-β from UCB Video: MCTS from UCB |
Adversarial Search Questions Adversarial Search Answers |
Due: PA1 Assigned: PA2 |
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| 2026-09-17 | Constraint Satisfaction | AIMA: 6 |
Constraint Satisfaction Questions Constraint Satisfaction Answers |
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| Knowledge, Reasoning, and Planning | |||||
| Week 5 | |||||
| 2026-09-22 | Knowledge-Based AI | AIMA: 7-10 |
Knowledge-Based AI Questions Knowledge-Based AI Answers |
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| 2026-09-24 | Planning | AIMA: 11 |
Planning Questions Planning Answers |
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| Week 6 | |||||
| 2026-09-29 | Midterm Review | AIMA: 1-11 | |||
| 2026-10-01 | Midterm Exam | AIMA: 1-11 | |||
| Uncertain Knowledge and Reasoning | |||||
| Week 7 | |||||
| 2026-10-06 | Uncertainty | AIMA: 12 |
Uncertainty Questions Uncertainty Answers |
Due: PA2 Assigned: PA3 |
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| 2026-10-08 | Bayesian Networks | AIMA: 13.1-13.2 |
Bayesian Networks Questions Bayesian Networks Answers |
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| Week 8 | |||||
| 2026-10-13 | Probabilistic Inference | AIMA: 13.3-13.4 |
Probabilistic Inference Questions Probabilistic Inference Answers |
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| 2026-10-15 | Causality |
AIMA: 13.5 AICA: 11 Causality Elements of Causal Inference Causal ML Book |
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| Week 9 | |||||
| 2026-10-20 | Probabilistic Temporal Reasoning | AIMA: 14.1-14.3 |
Probabilistic Temporal Reasoning Questions Probabilistic Temporal Reasoning Answers |
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| 2026-10-22 | State Estimation | AIMA: 14.4-14.5 | |||
| Decision Making and Reinforcement Learning | |||||
| Week 10 | |||||
| 2026-10-27 | Decision Theory | AIMA: 16 | |||
| 2026-10-29 | Multiagent Systems |
AIMA: 18.1 MAS: 1-2 |
Multiagent Systems Questions Multiagent Systems Answers |
Midterm Grades Due (2026-10-30) | |
| Week 11 | |||||
| 2026-11-03 | Noncooperative Game Theory |
AIMA: 18.2 MAS: 3-4 |
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| 2026-11-05 | Cooperative Game Theory |
AIMA: 18.3-18.4 MAS: 9, 10 |
Withdrawal Deadline (2026-11-06) | ||
| Week 12 | |||||
| 2026-11-10 | Multi-Armed Bandits |
RLAI: 2 AIMA: 17.3 |
Due: PA3 Assigned: PA4 |
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| 2026-11-12 | Markov Decision Processes |
RLAI: 3 AIMA: 17.1, 17.4-17.5 |
MDP Questions MDP Answers |
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| Week 13 | |||||
| 2026-11-17 | Dynamic Programming |
AIMA: 17.2 RLAI: 4 |
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| 2026-11-19 | Temporal-Difference Learning |
AIMA: 22 RLAI: 6 |
TD Learning Questions TD Learning Answers |
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| Machine Learning | |||||
| Week 14 | |||||
| 2026-11-24 | Thanksgiving - No Class | ||||
| 2026-11-26 | Thanksgiving - No Class | ||||
| Week 15 | |||||
| 2026-12-01 | Supervised Learning | AIMA: 19.1-19.6, 21.1-21.3 | |||
| 2026-12-03 | Statistical Learning | AIMA: 20 | Due: PA4 | ||
| 2026-12-?? | Final Exam | Sec 01: ?? | |||