CSE 573 - Artificial Intelligence I

University of Washington Department of Computer Science & Engineering

CSE 573 - Artificial Intelligence I - Autumn 2006
MW 1:30-2:50 in MEB 245

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Contact Info

Instructor: Pedro Domingos
Office: Allen Center 648
Office hours: Mondays, 3:00 to 4:00 TA: Michele Banko
Office: Allen Center 602
Office hours: Wednesdays, 3:00 to 4:00

Schedule

Week	Dates	Topics & Lecture Notes	Readings
1	September 27	Introduction	Russell & Norvig, Chapter 1
2	October 2-4	Uninformed Search, Informed Search (1 and 2)	Russell & Norvig, Chapters 3 & 4
3	October 9-11	Constraint Satisfaction, Game Playing	Russell & Norvig, Chapters 5 & 6
4	October 16-18	Propositional Logic (1 and 2), First-order Logic	Russell & Norvig, Chapters 7 & 8
5	October 23-25	Inference in First-Order Logic, Uncertainty	Russell & Norvig, Chapters 9 & 13
6	October 30-November 1	Bayesian Networks (1 and 2 )	Russell & Norvig, Chapter 14
7	November 6-8	Inference in Bayesian Networks (1 and 2 )	Russell & Norvig, Chapter 14
8	November 13-15	Markov Networks, Markov Logic, Decision Theory	Paper, Russell & Norvig, Chapter 16
9	November 20-22	Statistical Learning (1 , 2 and 3 )	Mitchell, Chapter 6 / R&N, Ch. 20
10	November 27-29	Decision Tree Induction, Rule Induction	Mitchell, Ch. 3 & 10 / R&N, Ch. 18 & 19
11	December 4-6	Neural Networks, Instance-Based Learning	Mitchell, Ch. 4 & 8 / R&N, Ch. 20

Textbooks

Stuart Russell & Peter Norvig, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, Prentice-Hall, Second Edition (2003) (required).
Tom Mitchell, Machine Learning, McGraw-Hill, 1997 (recommended).

Assignments

There will be four assignments, each worth 15% of the final grade, and a final exam worth 40% of the grade.

Assignment 1, Problem-Solving, handed out Oct 4, due Oct 16.
Assignment 2, Knowledge and Reasoning, handed out Oct 18, due Oct 30.
Assignment 3, Uncertainty, handed out Nov 1, due Nov 13.
Assignment 4, Learning, handed out Nov 20, due Dec 6.
Final Exam, Monday, Dec. 11, 2:30-4:20 p.m.

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