Textbook

Stuart Russell & Peter Norvig, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach,
Prentice-Hall, Third Edition (2009) (required).

Grading

Programming Assignments: 50%; Written Assignments: 20%; Final: 30%.

There will be four programming assignments due approximately every two weeks. There will be nine small written assignments due approximately every week.

• Programming Assignment 1: assigned Oct 1st, due Oct 15th noon. Description, Starter Code, Benchmark Problems, Dropbox
  
• Programming Assignment 2: assigned Oct 15th, due Nov 4th noon. Description, Starter Code Dropbox
  
• Programming Assignment 3: assigned Nov 2nd, due Nov 19th noon. Description, Starter Code, Dropbox
  
• Programming Assignment 4: assigned Nov 19th, due Dec 3rd noon. Description, Starter Code Submission Form Patient Files
• Written Assignment 1: assigned Oct 2nd, due Oct 7th. Description
• Written Assignment 2: assigned Oct 9th, due Oct 14th. Description, Dropbox
• Written Assignment 3: assigned Oct 16th, due Oct 21st. Description, Dropbox
• Written Assignment 4: assigned Oct 23rd, due Oct 29th 6pm. Description
• Written Assignment 5: assigned Nov 6th, due Nov 14th. Description
• Written Assignment 6: assigned Nov 27th, due Dec 2nd. Description

The gradebook can be found here.

Course Administration and Policies

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• Discussion Board is up.
• Some programming assignments are done individually; others may be done individually or in teams of 2. You may discuss the subject matter with other students in the class, but all solutions, code, writeups must be your own. In your writeup mention names of any students (outside your team) with whom you discussed the projects. You are expected to maintain the utmost level of academic integrity in the course.
• Written assignments are to be done individually. You may discuss the subject matter with other students in the class, but all solutions, writeups must be your own. In your writeup mention names of any students with whom you discussed the assignments. You are expected to maintain the utmost level of academic integrity in the course.
• Programming assignments may be handed in up to a week late, at a penalty of 10% of the maximum grade per day.
• Written assignments cannot be handed in late, except if a prior permission is taken in extreme circumstances.
• Comments can be sent to the instructor or TA using this anonymous feedback form

Cheating Vs. Collaborating Guidelines

As referenced from Dan Weld's guidelines.

Collaboration is a very good thing. On the other hand, cheating is considered a very serious offense. Please don't do it! Concern about cheating creates an unpleasant environment for everyone. If you cheat, you risk losing your position as a student in the department and the college. The department's policy on cheating is to report any cases to the college cheating committee. What follows afterwards is not fun.

So how do you draw the line between collaboration and cheating? Here's a reasonable set of ground rules. Failure to understand and follow these rules will constitute cheating, and will be dealt with as per University guidelines.

• The Gilligan's Island Rule: This rule says that you are free to meet with fellow students(s) and discuss assignments with them. Writing on a board or shared piece of paper is acceptable during the meeting; however, you should not take any written (electronic or otherwise) record away from the meeting. This applies when the assignment is supposed to be an individual effort or whenever two teams discuss common problems they are each encountering (inter-group collaboration). After the meeting, engage in a half hour of mind-numbing activity (like watching an episode of Gilligan's Island), before starting to work on the assignment. This will assure that you are able to reconstruct what you learned from the meeting, by yourself, using your own brain.
• The Freedom of Information Rule: To assure that all collaboration is on the level, you must always write the name(s) of your collaborators on your assignment. This applies when two groups collaborate.

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