Artificial Intelligence

CS 3642 - Summer 2026

Important Information

• Meeting times: N/A
• Room: Online

Required Materials

• AIMA: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, 4ed, by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig, ISBN-13: 978-0-13-461099-3, 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
Artificial Intelligence
Week 1
2026-05-19	Introduction to AI	Syllabus Resources Meet Prof. Simpkins AIMA: 1	Introduction to AI Questions Introduction to AI Answers	Assigned: PA0
2026-05-21	Intelligent Agents	AIMA: 2	Intelligent Agents Questions Intelligent Agents Answers
Search
Week 2
2026-05-26	Problem Solving	AIMA: 3.1-3.4 Video: Uninformed Search from UCB	Problem Solving Questions Problem Solving Answers	Due: PA0 Assigned: PA1
2026-05-28	Heuristic Search	AIMA: 3.5-3.6 Video: A*, Heuristics from UCB	Heuristic Search Questions Heuristic Search Answers
Week 3
2026-06-02	Local Search	AIMA: 4.1-4.2 Video: Local Search from ICB (starting at 50:30)	Local Search Questions Local Search Answers
2026-06-04	Nondeterministic Search	AIMA: 4.3-4.5	Nondeterministic Search Questions Nondeterministic Search Answers
Week 4
2026-06-09	Adversarial Search	AIMA: 5 Video: Minimax, α-β from UCB Video: MCTS from UCB	Adversarial Search Questions Adversarial Search Answers	Due: PA1 Assigned: PA2
2026-06-11	Exam 1	AIMA: 1-6
Symbolic Reasoning and Planning
Week 5
2026-06-16	Knowledge-Based AI	AIMA: 7-10	Knowledge-Based AI Questions Knowledge-Based AI Answers		Financial Aid Disbursement (2026-06-16) Unpaid Course Deletion (2026-06-17)
2026-06-18	Planning	AIMA: 11	Planning Questions Planning Answers
Probabilistic Reasoning
Week 6
2026-06-23	Uncertainty	AIMA: 12	Uncertainty Questions Uncertainty Answers	Due: PA2 Assigned: PA3
2026-06-25	Bayesian Networks	AIMA: 13.1-13.2	Bayesian Networks Questions Bayesian Networks Answers
Week 7
2026-06-30	Probabilistic Inference	AIMA: 13.3-13.4	Probabilistic Inference Questions Probabilistic Inference Answers
2026-07-02	Probabilistic Temporal Reasoning	AIMA: 14.1-14.2	Probabilistic Temporal Reasoning Questions Probabilistic Temporal Reasoning Answers
Week 8
2026-07-07	Exam 2	AIMA: 7-14			Midterm Grades Due (2026-07-07)
Decision Making
2026-07-09	Decision Theory	AIMA: 16	Decision Theory Questions Decision Theory Answers	Due: PA3 Assigned: PA4
Week 9
2026-07-14	Multiagent Systems	AIMA: 18.1 MAS: 1-2	Multiagent Systems Questions Multiagent Systems Answers		Withdrawal Deadline (2026-07-14)
Reinforcement Learning
2026-07-16	Markov Decision Processes	RLAI: 3 AIMA: 17.1, 17.4-17.5 Video: David Silver MDP Lecture Video: UCB MDPs Lecture	MDPs Questions MDPs Answers
Week 10
2026-07-21	Temporal-Difference Learning	AIMA: 22 RLAI: 6 Video: David Silver TD-Learning Lectures	TD Learning Questions TD Learning Answers
Supervised Machine Learning
2026-07-23	Machine Learning	PMLAI: 1 AIMA: 19.1-19.6	Machine Learning Questions Machine Learning Answers	Due: PA4
Final Exams
2026-07-30	Final Exam				Sec 01: ???