CSE 473 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Spring 2006
MWF 2:30 - 3:20
MGH 231
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Instructor
Prof. Henry Kautz
kautz@cs.washington.edu
206-543-1896
CSE 666
Office Hours: Tuesday 1:30 - 3:00 and by appointment
TA: Ravi Sarvadevabhatla (Kiran)
kiran@cs.washington.edu
CSE 220
Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday : 9:30 - 10:30 and by appointment
Topics
- Planning
- Game playing
- Neural networks
- Stochastic search
- Robot perception
Textbook
- AI: A Modern Approach, 2nd Edition, by S. Russell & P. Norvig
Coursework
- Written summaries of readings. You will create a short written summary of each day's readings, due on the day indicated in the calendar. This will be graded as "done" or "not done". The summaries will be returned to you on the days of the midterm and final exams, and use can you them during the exams.
- Approximately 3 programming assignments. These will be done individually or in teams, as indicated on each assignment.
- Approximately 5 written assignments. These will be done individually.
- Course project that includes programming, analysis, and writeup. These will be done in teams of two or three students.
- Grading: Scores will be normalized and weighted according to the following table in order to determine your final grade. The instructor reserves the right to increase the final grade of students who show extraordinary effort on one or more tasks.
| reading summaries |
10% |
| midterm exam |
10% |
| final exam |
15% |
| assignment 1 (agents) |
5% |
| assignment 2 (planning) |
10% |
| assignment 3 (heuristics) |
5% |
| assignment 4 (games) |
15% |
| assignment 5 (neural nets) |
10% |
| final project |
20% |
| TOTAL |
100% |
Staying in Touch
We will have two mailing lists.
- cse473-sp@cs.washington.edu
This will be the official course mailing list and will be used primarily for announcements by me and Ravi.
Note : Please do not post messages on this list . To subscribe, send a blank email to cse473-sp-request@cs.washington.edu with the word subscribe in the message body. You
will receive a mail informing you what to do next.
- cse473-discuss@cs.washington.edu
This will be the mailing list to discuss issues about the course and the assignments with other students.
Ravi and myself will also be reading this list, so it is also appropriate for any question of a general nature. You may also send email to Ravi or me directly with either general questions or questions about your own performance in the course.To subscribe, send a blank email to cse473-discuss-request@cs.washington.edu with the word subscribe in the message body. You
will receive a mail informing you what to do next. To post on this
list, email your posting to cse473-discuss@cs.washington.edu
Anonymous Feedback
Comments can be sent to the instructor or TA using this anonymous feedback form
Accomodations
If you require accomodations because of a disability, please contact the instructor as soon as possible.
Academic Honesty
Each assignment will indicate whether it requires only individual effort or if it can be worked on in a group. In the latter case, the names of all members of the group must appear on the assignment that is turned in. If information from an assignment or project performed by any other student at any institution (for example, a copy of a homework solution found on the web) is used by a class member in completing an assignment, that work must be clearly cited. Failure to respect these prinicples will be dealt with according to the university's code of academic conduct.