CSE 473 - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

University of Washington Department of Computer Science & Engineering

CSE 473 - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence - Autumn 2010
Mon, Wed, Fri 2:30-3:20 in EEB 045

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Contact Info

Instructor: Pedro Domingos (pedrod at cs dot washington dot edu)
Office hours: Mondays 3:30-4:20, CSE 648 TA: Andrew Guillory (guillory at cs dot washington dot edu)
Office hours: Wednesdays 3:30-4:20, CSE 218

TA: Keyun Tong (keyun at cs dot washington dot edu)
Office hours: Fridays 1:30-2:20, CSE 220

Schedule

Week	Dates	Topics & Lecture Notes	Readings
1	September 29, October 1	Introduction, Uninformed Search	Russell & Norvig, Chapter 1 & 3
2	October 4, 6, 8	Informed Search (1 and 2)	Russell & Norvig, Chapters 3 & 4
3	October 11, 13, 15	Game Playing, Constraint Satisfaction	Russell & Norvig, Chapters 5 & 6
4	October 18, 20, 22	Propositional Logic (1 and 2)	Russell & Norvig, Chapter 7
5	October 25, 27, 29	First-order Logic, Inference in First-Order Logic	Russell & Norvig, Chapters 8 & 9
6	November 1, 3, 5	Uncertainty, Bayesian Networks (1 and 2)	Russell & Norvig, Chapters 13 & 14
7	November 8, 10, 12	Inference in Bayesian Networks (1 and 2)	Russell & Norvig, Chapter 14
8	November 15, 17, 19	Markov Networks, Markov Logic	Paper
9	November 22, 24	Decision Theory	Russell & Norvig, Chapter 16
10	November 29, December 1, 3	Decision Tree Induction	Russell & Norvig, Chapter 18
11	December 6, 8, 10	Statistical Learning (1, 2 and 3), Reinforcement Learning	Russell & Norvig, Chapters 20 & 21

Textbook

Stuart Russell & Peter Norvig, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, Prentice-Hall, Third Edition (2009) (required).

Assignments

There will be four assignments, each worth 16% of the total grade. The final exam will be worth 36%.

Assignment 1, Problem-Solving, handed out Oct 8, due Oct 22.
Assignment 2, Knowledge and Reasoning, handed out Oct 22, due Nov 5.
Assignment 3, Uncertainty, handed out Nov 5, due Nov 24.
Assignment 4, Learning, handed out Nov 24, due Dec 10.

Course Administration and Policies

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Department of Computer Science & Engineering
University of Washington
Box 352350
Seattle, WA 98195-2350
(206) 543-1695 voice, (206) 543-2969 FAX

Instructor: Pedro Domingos (pedrod at cs dot washington dot edu) Office hours: Mondays 3:30-4:20, CSE 648	TA: Andrew Guillory (guillory at cs dot washington dot edu) Office hours: Wednesdays 3:30-4:20, CSE 218
	TA: Keyun Tong (keyun at cs dot washington dot edu) Office hours: Fridays 1:30-2:20, CSE 220