Steam-powered Turing Machine University of Washington Department of Computer Science & Engineering
 CSE 473 - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence - Spring 2002
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Instructor: Pedro Domingos
Office: Sieg 216
Office hours: Mondays 3:30-4:30, and by appointment
TA1: Will Portnoy
Office: Sieg 226B
Office hours: Wednesdays 11:30-12:30, and by appointment
TA2: Nan Li
Office: Sieg 226A
Office hours: Thursdays 12:00-1:00, and by appointment

Class meets:
MWF 9:30-10:20 EE1 037

Lectures

Week Dates Topics & Lecture Notes Readings
1 April 1-5 Introduction (PDF), uninformed search (PDF),
Chapters 1 & 3 of Russell & Norvig
2 April 8-12 Informed search (PDF), game playing (PDF) Chapters 4 & 5 of Russell & Norvig
3 April 15-19 Constraint satisfaction (PDF), logic 1 (PDF), logic 2 (PDF) Chapters 4, 6 & 7 of Russell & Norvig
4 April 22-26 Logic 3 (PDF), logic 4 (PDF), uncertainty (PDF), belief networks 1 (PDF) Chapters 9, 14 & 15 of Russell & Norvig; review probability
5 April 29-May 3 Belief networks 2 (PDF), uncertain inference (PDF) Chapter 15 of Russell & Norvig
6 May 6-10 Decision theory (PDF), review, midterm Chapter 16 of Russell & Norvig
7 May 13-17 Intro to learning, instance-based learning (PDF) Chapters 1 & 8 of Mitchell
8 May 20-24 Decision trees, learning ensembles (PDF) Chapter 3 of Mitchell and Section 2 of Dietterich
9 May 27-31 Bayesian learning (PDF) Chapter 6 of Mitchell
10 June 3-7 Neural networks (PDF), review Chapter 4 of Mitchell


Assignments

There will be two projects, two homeworks, a midterm, and a final exam. You are expected to work individually on the homeworks, and in groups of two on the projects. Late turn-in policy: you lose 10% of the maximum grade for each day you're late, up to a limit of one week.

Assignment % of Grade Handed out Due Topic Additional Info
Homework 1 (PDF) 5 April 5 April 12 Search  
Project 1 (PDF) 25 April 12 May 3 Game playing  
Midterm 20 May 10 In class Weeks 1-5 Solutions (PDF)
Homework 2 (PDF) 5 May 24 May 31 Learning Solutions (PDF)
Project 2 25 May 17 June 7 Collaborative filtering  
Final 20 Finals week June 12, 8:30am Weeks 6-10 Practice (PDF) Solutions (PDF) Final Solutions (PDF)


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