Steam-powered Turing Machine 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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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

Assignments

There will be four assignments, each worth 25% of the final grade.

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