Important Information
- Meeting times: Mondays and Wednesdays, Sec 01: 17:00-18:15
- Room: Sec 01: Mathematics 249
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 | |||||
| 2026-01-12 | Introduction to the Course |
Syllabus Resources Meet Prof. Simpkins |
Assigned: PA0 | ||
| 2026-01-14 | Introduction to AI | AIMA: 1 |
Introduction to AI Questions Introduction to AI Answers |
Registration Ends (2026-01-16) Payment Deadline (2026-01-16) Graduation Petition Deadline (2026-01-18) Unpaid Course Deletion (2026-01-18) |
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| Week 2 | |||||
| 2026-01-19 | MLK Day - No Class | ||||
| 2026-01-21 | Intelligent Agents | AIMA: 2 |
Intelligent Agents Questions Intelligent Agents Answers |
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| Problem Solving | |||||
| Week 3 | |||||
| 2026-01-26 | Weather Cancellation |
Financial Aid Disbursement (2026-01-26) Unpaid Course Deletion (2026-01-27) |
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| 2026-01-28 | 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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| Week 4 | |||||
| 2026-02-02 | Super Flu Cancellation | ||||
| 2026-02-04 | Heuristic Search |
AIMA: 3.5-3.6 Video: A*, Heuristics from UCB |
Heuristic Search Questions Heuristic Search Answers |
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| Week 5 | |||||
| 2026-02-09 | Adversarial Search |
AIMA: 5 Video: Minimax, α-β from UCB Video: MCTS from UCB |
Adversarial Search Questions Adversarial Search Answers |
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| 2026-02-11 | Local Search | AIMA: 4.1-4.2 |
Local Search Questions Local Search Answers |
Due: PA1 Assigned: PA2 |
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| Knowledge, Reasoning, and Planning | |||||
| Week 6 | |||||
| 2026-02-16 | Nondeterministic Search | AIMA: 4.3-4.5 |
Local Search Questions Local Search Answers |
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| 2026-02-18 |
Knowledge-Based AI Planning |
AIMA: 7-10 AIMA: 11 |
Knowledge-Based AI Questions Knowledge-Based AI Answers Planning Questions Planning Answers |
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| Week 7 | |||||
| 2026-02-23 | Midterm Review | AIMA: 1-11 | |||
| 2026-02-25 | Midterm Exam | AIMA: 1-11 | |||
| Uncertain Knowledge and Reasoning | |||||
| Week 8 | |||||
| 2026-03-02 | Uncertainty | AIMA: 12 |
Uncertainty Questions Uncertainty Answers |
Due: PA2 Assigned: PA3 |
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| 2026-03-04 | Bayesian Networks | AIMA: 13.1-13.2 |
Bayesian Networks Questions Bayesian Networks Answers |
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| Week 9 | |||||
| 2026-03-09 | Spring Break - No Class | ||||
| 2026-03-11 | Spring Break - No Class | ||||
| Week 10 | |||||
| 2026-03-16 | Probabilistic Inference | AIMA: 13.3-13.4 |
Probabilistic Inference Questions Probabilistic Inference Answers |
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| 2026-03-18 | Causality |
AIMA: 13.5 Causality Elements of Causal Inference Causal ML Book |
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| Week 11 | |||||
| 2026-03-23 | Probabilistic Temporal Reasoning | AIMA: 14.1-14.3 |
Probabilistic Temporal Reasoning Questions Probabilistic Temporal Reasoning Answers |
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| 2026-03-25 | State Estimation | AIMA: 14.4-14.5 | Midterm Grades Due (2026-03-27) | ||
| Decision Making and Reinforcement Learning | |||||
| Week 12 | |||||
| 2026-03-30 | Decision Theory | AIMA: 16 | |||
| 2026-04-01 | Multiagent Systems |
AIMA: 18.1 MAS: 1-2 |
Multiagent Systems Questions Multiagent Systems Answers |
Withdrawal Deadline (2026-04-03) | |
| Week 13 | |||||
| 2026-04-06 | Noncooperative Game Theory |
AIMA: 18.2 MAS: 3-4 |
AAAI Spring Symposia (2026-04-07) | ||
| 2026-04-08 | Cooperative Game Theory |
AIMA: 18.3-18.4 MAS: 9, 10 |
AAAI Spring Symposia (2026-04-08) AAAI Spring Symposia (2026-04-09) |
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| Week 14 | |||||
| 2026-04-13 | Multi-Armed Bandits |
RLAI: 2 AIMA: 17.3 |
Due: PA3 Assigned: PA4 |
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| 2026-04-15 | Markov Decision Processes |
RLAI: 3 AIMA: 17.1, 17.4-17.5 |
MDP Questions MDP Answers |
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| Week 15 | |||||
| 2026-04-20 | Dynamic Programming |
AIMA: 17.2 RLAI: 4 |
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| 2026-04-22 | Temporal-Difference Learning |
AIMA: 22 RLAI: 6 |
TD Learning Questions TD Learning Answers |
ICLR (2026-04-23) ICLR (2026-04-24) ICLR (2026-04-25) ICLR (2026-04-26) |
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| Machine Learning | |||||
| Week 16 | |||||
| 2026-04-27 | Supervised Learning | AIMA: 19.1-19.6, 21.1-21.3 | ICLR (2026-04-27) | ||
| 2026-04-29 | Statistical Learning | AIMA: 20 | |||
| Week 17 | |||||
| 2026-05-04 | Final Review | AIMA: 12-21.2,22 | Due: PA4 | ||
| 2026-05-06 | Final Exam | Sec 01: 18:00-20:00 | |||