Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering

CSE 473 - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence - Winter 2018
MWF 1:30-2:20 in MGH 389

Instructor: Luke Zettlemoyer
Office hours: Thu 11-12am, CSE 658
TA: Nicholas Ruhland
Office hours:
Tue 11:30-12:30pm, CSE 220
TA: Liyimin (Kay) Ke
Office hours:
Wed 9:30-10:30am, CSE 220
TA: Jianyang (Jane) Zhang
Office hours:
Fri 3:30-4:30pm, CSE 007
TA: Kenny Le
Office hours:
Mon 4:30-5:30pm, CSE 021
TA: Joseph Zhong
Office hours:
Tue 9:30-10:30am, CSE 007
TA: Nicholas FitzGerald
Office hours:
Thu 1-2pm, CSE 220

Schedule [subject to change!]

Week Dates Topics & Lecture Notes Readings
1 Jan 3, 5 Introduction; Search R&N, Ch. 1,2 (optional); R&N 3.1-3.4
2 Jan 8, 10, 12 Search (cont.); Informed Search R&N 3.5-3.7
3 Jan 17, 19 Informed Search (cont.); Adversarial Search R&N 5.1-5.5
4 Jan 22, 24, 26 Expectimax; Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) R&N 17.1-17.3
5 Jan 29, 31, Feb 2 MDP (cont.); Reinforcement Learning (RL) R&N 21.1-21.5
6 Feb 5, 7 RL (cont.) R&N 13
7 Feb 12, 14, 16 Uncertainty; Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) R&N 15.1-15.3
8 Feb 21, 23 HMMs (cont.); Bayesian Networks (BNs) R&N 14.1-14.3
9 Feb 26, 28, Mar 2 BNs (cont.); Inference in Bayesian Networks R&N 14.4-14.5
10 Mar 5, 7, 9 Constraint Satisfaction Problems; Machine Learning R&N 18.1-18.2; 20.1-20.2

Textbook

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.

Exams

Communication

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