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CSE 473 - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence - Spring 2013
Mon, Wed, Fri 1:30-2:20 in BAG 260 MUE 153
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Instructor: Luke Zettlemoyer (lsz at cs dot washington dot edu)
Office hours: Tues 11-12 in CSE 658, or by appointment
TA: Cynthia Matuszek (cynthia at cs dot washington dot edu)
Office hours: Thur 5:00-6:00pm, CSE 006
TA: Mark Yatskar (my89 at cs dot washington dot edu)
Office hours: Wed 3:00-4:00pm, CSE 006

Schedule [subject to change!]

Week Dates Topics & Lecture Notes Readings
1 April 1, 3, 5 Introduction; Search R&N, Ch. 1,2 (optional); R&N, Ch. 3.1-3.7
2 April 8, 10, 12 Heuristic Search; Game Playing: Minimax and Expectimax R&N, Ch. 5.1-5.9 (5.6 is optional)
3 April 15, 17, 19 Games (continued); Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) R&N, Ch 17.1-17.3; S&B, Ch. 3-4
4 April 22, 24, 26 MDPs (cont.); Reinforcement Learning (RL) R&N, Ch. 17.4 (also, finish previous reading)
5 April 29, May 1, 3 RL (continued), Uncertainty and Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) R&N, 13.1-13.5; 15.1-15.3
6 May 6, 8, 10 Constraint Satisfaction Problems, CSP Review R&N, Ch. 6.1-6.5
7 May 13, 15, 17 HMMs (cont.); Bayesian Networks (BNs) R&N, Ch. 14.1-14.5
8 May 20, 22, 24 BN Inference; Supervised Learning R&N, 18.1-2, 18.4, 18.6;
9 May 29, 31 ML (cont.); Intro. Logic R&N 7-7.5
10 June 3, 5, 7 Logical Inference; First-Order Logic R&N 8.2-8.3.2, 8.4; 9.1-9.3.2

Course Administration and Policies

Textbooks

Programming Projects

This quarter, we will do The Pac-Man Projects. Please complete the versions listed below, as they differ in places from the originals.

Written Homeworks

Final Exam

Communication


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