CSEP 573 - Applications of Artificial Intelligence- Autumn 2007

University of Washington Department of Computer Science & Engineering

CSEP 573 - Applications of Artificial Intelligence - Autumn 2007
Wed 6:30-9:20 in EEB 037

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Contact Info

Instructor: Pedro Domingos
Office: Allen Center 648
Office hours: Wednesday, 5:30 to 6:20 TA: Tian Sang (sang at cs)
Office hours: Wednesday, 5:30 to 6:20 at Allen Center 218,
or by appointment

Schedule

Week	Dates	Topics & Lecture Notes	Readings
1	September 27	Introduction	Russell & Norvig, Chapter 1
2	October 3	Uninformed Search, Informed Search (1 and 2)	Russell & Norvig, Chapters 3 & 4
3	October 10	Constraint Satisfaction, Game Playing	Russell & Norvig, Chapters 5 & 6
4	October 17	Propositional Logic (1 and 2), First-order Logic	Russell & Norvig, Chapters 7 & 8
5	October 24	Inference in First-Order Logic, Uncertainty	Russell & Norvig, Chapters 9 & 13
6	October 31	Bayesian Networks (1 and 2 )	Russell & Norvig, Chapter 14
7	November 7	Inference in Bayesian Networks (1 and 2 )	Russell & Norvig, Chapter 14
8	November 14	Markov Networks, Markov Logic, Decision Theory	Paper, Russell & Norvig, Chapter 16
9	November 21	Statistical Learning (1 , 2 and 3 )	Mitchell, Chapter 6 / R&N, Ch. 20
10	November 28	Decision Tree Induction, Rule Induction	Mitchell, Ch. 3 & 10 / R&N, Ch. 18 & 19
11	December 5	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 25% of the final grade.

Assignment 1, Problem-Solving, handed out Oct 3, due Oct 17.
Assignment 2, Knowledge and Reasoning, handed out Oct 17, due Oct 31 and Nov 7.
Assignment 3, Uncertainty, handed out Nov 7, due Nov 21.
Assignment 4, Learning, handed out Nov 21, due Dec 5.

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