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| Mon March 27 | Overview | History of AI | ||
| Wed March 29 | Search & Planning | pages 32-54 (Ch 2) and optional (no summary required): |
Agents | |
| Fri March 31 | pages 58-87 (Ch 3) | continue Agents slides | ||
| Mon April 3 | pages 94-110 (Ch 4) and pages 383-387 and 395-402 (Ch 11) |
Search | ||
| Wed April 5 | (no readings due) |
Download MazeRunner Source Code |
Assignment 1 due | |
| Fri April 7 | (no readings due) | Finding Search Heuristics | Assignment 2 due |
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| Mon April 10 | SHAKEY video | |||
| Wed April 12 | Games | pages 161-175 (Ch 6) | Games | Assignment 3 due |
| Fri April 14 | NO CLASS | |||
| Mon April 17 | Games continued | |||
| Wed April 19 | Games continued | |||
| Fri April 21 | Neural Networks | pages 736-743 (begining of section 20.5). [Note: this is hard going, don't expect to understand it all or take very detailed notes yet - just get the general idea.] | Neural Networks | |
| Mon April 24 | Re-read 736-743 as necessary. Also read 744-748. |
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| Wed April 26 | Section 4.3 (pages 110-119) |
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| Fri April 28 | Local Search & Genetic Algorithms | Local Search | Assignment 4 due |
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| Mon May 1 | Evolutionary Computing | |||
| Wed May 3 | MIDTERM EXAM |
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| Fri May 5 | No readings due today, but you should get a head start on the ones due next week! |
Note: okay to hand in Monday if you need more time. |
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| Mon May 8 | Logical Reasoning | Read only (no notes necessary): Sec 7.1-7.2 Read and take notes: Sec 7.3-7.5 |
Logical Reasoning | |
| Wed May 10 | Read and take notes: Section 7.6-7.7 | Assignment 5 due | ||
| Fri May 12 | Exercises on logical reasoning given out (not to be handed in): Solution sheet will be given out one week later. |
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| Mon May 15 |
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Planning as Satisfiability | ||
| Wed May 17 | Probabilistic Reasoning and Learning | Read only (no notes necessary): Sec 13.1 Read and take notes: sec 13.2-13.5 |
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| Fri May 19 | NO CLASS | |||
| Mon May 22 | Bayesian Networks, Inference & Learning | Sec 14.1 - 14.3
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Slides used in class:
Slides based on textbook by Stuart Russell: |
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| Wed May 24 | Sec 14.4 - 14.5 | |||
| Fri May 26 | Sec 20.1 - 20.2: Keep your notes, do not turn them in. |
Exercises on probabilistic reasoning given out (not to be handed in): Solution sheet will be given out one week later. | ||
| Mon May 29 | NO CLASS | |||
| Wed May 31 | Sec 20.3; concentrate on subsection "Learning Bayesian Networks with Hidden Variables". Keep your notes, do not turn them in. | Final Projects Due | ||
| Fri June 2 | Project Presentations | |||
| Tuesday, June 6 | Final Exam: 2:30-4:20PM Location: MGH 231 |
Final Exam Study Sheet |