CSE 473 Tentative Day by Day Schedule (Spring 2010)

(This schedule is subject to change.)    Revised: 22-Apr-2010
 
Week # Monday Wednesday  Friday
1 Mar 29: Introduction. What is intelligence? Turing test. lecture pdf Mar 31 A Python Primer lecture pdf Apr 2: Knowledge representation with inheritance hierarchies. lecture pdf
2 Apr 5: State-space search 1. Missionaries and Cannibals. Painted Squares. Combinatorial explosion. Blind search. lecture pdf Apr 7: State-Space Search 2: State space structures, problem posing issues. lecture pdf Apr 9: State-Space Search 3: Graph search, Uniform Cost search, A*, admissible heuristics (A1 due, incl. Python exercises, ISA hierarchy enhancements.) lecture pdf
3 Apr 12: Game Playing 1: Minimaxing, alpha-beta pruning. lecture pdf Apr 14: Game Playing 2: Checkers, Chess, Zobrist hashing. lecture pdf Apr 16: Genetic Search, TSP. (A2 due, including SSS formulations.)
4 Apr 19: Search Strategies: Hill climbing, simulated annealing, case-based reasoning. lecture pdf Apr 21: Constraints lecture pdf Apr 23: Interactive state-space search: CoSolve (A3 due, including K-in-a-row player.)
5 Apr 26: Logic 1: Propositional resolution lecture pdf Apr 28: Logic 2: Predicate resolution and unification lecture pdf Apr 30: Logic 3: PROLOG basics lecture pdf
6 May 3: Logic 4: Applying PROLOG (A4 due, search strategies, logic in AI) David Broderick's lecture slides May 5: Review for midterm exam. Topics, Sample test May 7: Midterm exam.
7 May 10: Probabilistic Inference with Bayes' Rule lecture pdf May 12: Building probabilistic inference nets lecture pdf May 14: Machine Learning 1: Introduction. Perceptrons lecture pdf
8 May 17: Machine Learning 2: Backprop + ID3 method lecture pdf May 19: Machine Learning 3: SVM and Kernel Methods May 21: Natural language understanding. lecture pdf
9 May 24: Image understanding 1. lecture pdf May 26: Image understanding 2. lecture pdf May 28: Concept exploration systems. lecture pdf
10 May 31: Memorial Day Holiday (no class) Jun 2: Project presentations. Jun 4: Project presentations.
Jun 9 (Wednesday): CANCELLED: FINAL EXAMINATION 8:30 PM - 10:20