SPRING 2017 / CSE 473: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

Basic Information

Course Staff:


Dieter Fox
Course Instructor
Office Hours:
Wednesday 2:30-3:30pm, CSE 586
Nicholas Ruhland
Teaching Assistant
Office Hours:
Tuesday 10:30-11:30am, CSE 021
Xiaoyi Zhang
Teaching Assistant
Office Hours:
Wednesday 10:30-11:30am, CSE 007
Bruno Castro-Karney
Teaching Assistant
Office Hours:
Monday 12:30-1:30pm, CSE 023
Ziyao Huang
Teaching Assistant
Office Hours:
Thursday 10:30-11:30am, CSE 021
Yifei Song
Teaching Assistant
Office Hours:
Tuesday 4-5pm, CSE 021

Contact:

Our primary method of communication will be the Piazza site for this course: https://piazza.com/washington/spring2017/cse473/.

If you truly wish to use old-fashioned email, you may email all instructors at cse473-instr [at] cs.washington.edu.

Class Times & Locations:

Monday, Wednesday, Friday 13:30-14:20 in EEB 125

Textbook:

Stuart Russell & Peter Norvig, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, Third Edition (2009)

Topics:

Search (uninformed, heuristic), Constraint Satisfaction Problems, Adversarial Search, Markov Decision Processes, Reinforcement Learning, Probabilities, Hidden Markov Models, Particle Filters, Bayesian Networks, Applications in Robotics

Grading and Late Policy:

Your grade will be 50% programming assignments, 15% midterm, 30% final exam, 5% class participation.

Each student has four penalty-free late days for the whole quarter. All other late submissions will be penalized 10% of the maximum grade per day.

Assignments will be done individually unless otherwise specified. You may discuss the subject matter with other students in the class, but all final answers must be your own work. You are expected to maintain the utmost level of academic integrity in the course.

Pac-Man:

The programming projects in this course are based on those from http://ai.berkeley.edu/project_overview.html. This link is provided for reference only as our projects may differ.

Academic Honesty

It is encouraged that you discuss your ideas with each other and consult online sources to better understand the material. However, your code must be written entirely by yourself. As a rule, you should never look at or run anyone else's code for the assignment, whether the code was written by someone currently in the class, or someone who took it previously, even at another university. Reading pseudocode for generic algorithms (like alpha-beta pruning or A* search) is perfectly OK. If you use a source very closely, for example, converting a pseudocode implementation of A* to python, academic integrity demands that you cite the source (in a comment). You will not be penalized for this; on the contrary, the citation may help us to understand why your implementation is so similar to someone else's, in case they use and cite the same source. We do compare everyone's projects to each other and to past submissions to detect logical redundancy. When two assignments are too similar to have occurred by chance, we have to look into whether something improper occurred. These investigations are not fun for anyone involved. If you have questions, please ask!


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Homework Assignments

Homework Dropbox

Project 0: Tutorial (Not Graded)

Project 1: Search in Pacman (Due Monday, April 17th before midnight)

Project 2: Multi-Agent Pacman (Due Friday, April 28th before midnight)

Project 3: Reinforcement Learning (Due Monday, May 15th before midnight)

Project 4: Ghostbusters (Due Friday, May 26th before midnight)

Homework 5: Bayes Nets (Due Friday, June 2nd either in class or Catalyst dropbox before midnight)

Exams

Midterm (May 3)

Midterm will be held on 5/3 (Wed) during lecture time. Closed book, no calculators, no cheatsheet.

Practice Exams:

Final Exam (Monday June 5, 2:30-4:20pm)

Final will be held on 6/5 (Monday of finals week), EEB 125. Closed book, no calculators, no cheatsheet. The final will be cumulative with an emphasis on the post-midterm material.

Practice Exams: