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CSE 473 - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence - Spring 2014
Mon, Wed, Fri 1:30-2:20 in MGH 241
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Instructor: Hanna Hajishirzi (hannaneh at cs dot washington dot edu)
Office hours: Tuesday 3-3:40pm at EEB214
Course staff mailing list: (cse473-staff at cs dot washington dot edu)
TA: Svetoslav Kolev (swetko at cs dot washington dot edu)
Office hours: Wednesday 3:00-4:00pm at CSE002
TA: Yunyi Song (bessieyy at cs dot washington dot edu)
Office hours: Thursday 10:30-11:30am at CSE002
TA: Johnson Goh (johnson at cs dot washington dot edu)
Office hours: Monday 10:30-11:30am at CSE002

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Temporary classroom change: The class will be held at MOR 230 on Friday May 16 due to the Undergraduate Research Symposium event at MGH.

Schedule

Week Dates Topics & Lecture Notes Readings
1 March 31 Introduction, Agents R&N, Ch. 1,2 (optional)
2 April 2 Agents, Problem Spaces and Blind Search R&N, Ch. 3.1-3.4
3 April 4 Search algorithms: Cost and Heuristics R&N, Ch. 3.5-3.7
4 April 7 Search Algorithms: A* R&N, Ch. 3.5-3.7
5 April 9 Adversarial Search (Minimax) R&N, Ch. 5.1-5.2
6 April 11 Adversarial Search (Alpha-Beta) R&N, Ch. 5.3-5.4
7 April 14 Adversarial Search (Expectimax) R&N, Ch. 5.5-5.7 (5.6 is optional)
8 April 16 Markov Decision Processes R&N, Ch. 17.1-17.3, S&B, Ch. 3-4
9 April 18 Markov Decision Processes R&N, Ch. 17.1-17.3, S&B, Ch. 3-4
10 April 21 MDP(ctd.), Reinforcement Learning R&N, Ch. 21.1-21.2 (also, finish previous reading)
11 April 23 Reinforcement Learning R&N, Ch. 21.3
12 April 25 Reinforcement Learning R&N, Ch. 21.3
13 April 28 Uncertainty R&N, Ch. 13
14 April 30 Probablistic Inference R&N, Ch. 13
15 May 2 Probabilistic Inference (ctd.), Markov Models R&N, Ch. 15.1 (also finish previous reading)
16 May 5 Hidden Markov Models R&N, Ch. 15.1-15.3
17 May 7 Hidden Markov Models (Forward Algorithm) R&N, Ch. 15.1-15.3
18 May 9 Hidden Markov Models (Particle Filtering) R&N, Ch. 15.1-15.3
19 May 12 Applications: Robotics
20 May 14 Bayesian Networks R&N, Ch. 14.1-14.5
21 May 19 Bayesian Networks (Independence) R&N, Ch. 14.1-14.5
22 May 21 Bayesian Networks (Inference) R&N, Ch. 14.1-14.5
23 May 23 Bayesian Networks (Sampling) R&N, Ch. 14.1-14.5
24 May 26 Machine Learning (Naive Bayes) R&N, Ch. 18.1-2
25 May 28 Machine Learning (Perceptron) R&N, Ch. 18.4-6
26 June 4 Logic R&N, Ch. 6
27 June 6 Logic, Applications R&N, Ch. 6

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Programming Projects

This quarter, we will do The Pac-Man Projects. Please complete the versions listed below, as they differ in places from the originals.

Written Homeworks

Final Exam

Communication


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