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Date Lecture Topic Readings Homework Due
Thu, Aug 31, 2023 Introduction to AI
(Module 0) [slides]
Tue, Sep 5, 2023 Agents
(Module 0) [slides]
  • Stuart Russell & Peter Norvig, AIMA, Chapter 2
Thu, Sep 7, 2023 Agents & Uninformed Search
(Module 1) [slides]
  • Stuart Russell & Peter Norvig, AIMA, Chapter 3.1-3.4
Thu, Sep 7, 2023 Waitlists Deactivated
Tue, Sep 12, 2023 Uninformed Search
(Module 1) [slides]
  • Stuart Russell & Peter Norvig, AIMA, Chapter 3.1-3.4
Wed, Sep 13, 2023 Last Day to Change Schedule
Thu, Sep 14, 2023 Uninformed Search & Informed Search
(Module 1) [slides]
  • Stuart Russell & Peter Norvig, AIMA, Chapter 3.1-3.4
Tue, Sep 19, 2023 Informed Search
(Module 1) [slides]
  • Stuart Russell & Peter Norvig, AIMA, Chapter 3.5-3.7
Wed, Sep 20, 2023
Module 1 Summary
Thu, Sep 21, 2023 Local Search
(Module 1) [slides]
  • Stuart Russell & Peter Norvig, AIMA, Chapter 4.1-4.4
Module 1 Group Presentations
Tue, Sep 26, 2023 Multi-Agent Search
(Module 1) [slides]
  • Stuart Russell & Peter Norvig, AIMA, Chapter 5.1-5.4
HW1: Search in Pac-Man (10%)
Thu, Sep 28, 2023 Knowledge-based Agents & Propositional Logic
(Module 2) [slides]
  • Stuart Russell & Peter Norvig, AIMA, Chapter 7.1-7.5
Tue, Oct 3, 2023 Propositional Logic
(Module 2) [slides]
  • Stuart Russell & Peter Norvig, AIMA, Chapter 7.1-7.5
Wed, Oct 4, 2023
Module 2 Summary
Thu, Oct 5, 2023 First-Order Logic
(Module 2) [slides]
  • Stuart Russell & Peter Norvig, AIMA, Chapters 8.1.2, 8.2, 8.3, 9.3
Module 2 Group Presentations
Tue, Oct 10, 2023 Planning
(Module 2) [slides] by Dr. Cassie Kent
  • Stuart Russell & Peter Norvig, AIMA, Chapter 11.1-11.7
Thu, Oct 12, 2023 Markov Decision Processes (MDPs)
(Module 3) [slides] by Dr. Cassie Kent
  • Stuart Russell & Peter Norvig, AIMA, Chapter 16.1-16.3, 17.1-17.2
Tue, Oct 17, 2023
Thu, Oct 19, 2023 Markov Decision Processes (MDPs)
(Module 3) [slides] by Dr. Frank Ferraro
  • Stuart Russell & Peter Norvig, AIMA, Chapter 16.1-16.3, 17.1-17.2
HW2: Hunt the Wampa (10%)
Mon, Oct 23, 2023
Module 3 Summary
Tue, Oct 24, 2023 Reinforcement Learning (RL)
(Module 3) [slides]
  • Stuart Russell & Peter Norvig, AIMA, Chapter 22.1-22.5
Module 3 Group Presentations
Thu, Oct 26, 2023 Reinforcement Learning (RL)
(Module 3) [slides]
  • Stuart Russell & Peter Norvig, AIMA, Chapter 22.1-22.5
Tue, Oct 31, 2023 Midterm Review
(Module 3) [slides]
Thu, Nov 2, 2023
Midterm (20%)
Tue, Nov 7, 2023 Intro to Probability
(Module 4) [slides]
  • Stuart Russell & Peter Norvig, AIMA, Chapter 5.5, 12.1-12.4
Wed, Nov 8, 2023 Last Day to Withdraw
Thu, Nov 9, 2023 Statistical Learning
(Module 4) [slides]
Tue, Nov 14, 2023 Bayes Nets
(Module 4) [slides]
  • Stuart Russell & Peter Norvig, AIMA, Chapter 12.5-12.7, 13.1-13.4
HW3: Reinforcement Learning in GridWorld & Pac-Man (10%)
Wed, Nov 15, 2023
Module 4 Summary
Thu, Nov 16, 2023 Bayes Nets
(Module 4) [slides]
  • Stuart Russell & Peter Norvig, AIMA, Chapter 12.5-12.7, 13.1-13.4
Module 4 Group Presentations Project Milestone 1: Proposal
Tue, Nov 21, 2023 Naive Bayes
(Module 4) [slides]
Thu, Nov 23, 2023 No Class - Thanksgiving
Tue, Nov 28, 2023 Intro to Machine Learning
(Module 5) [slides]
  • Stuart Russell & Peter Norvig, AIMA, Chapter 19.1, 19.2, 21.7
Project Milestone 2: Lit Review
Thu, Nov 30, 2023 Types of ML Algorithms
(Module 5) [slides]
  • Stuart Russell & Peter Norvig, AIMA, Chapter 14.3, 19.3, 19.6, 19.7
Tue, Dec 5, 2023 Perceptrons (& Working on Final Project in Class)
(Module 5) [slides]
  • Stuart Russell & Peter Norvig, AIMA, Chapter 19.6
Thu, Dec 7, 2023 Deep Neural Networks
(Module 5) [slides] 		Project Milestone 3: Final Report Draft
Tue, Dec 12, 2023 Transformers
(Module 5) [slides]
Tue, Dec 19, 2023 Final Project Presentations, 1:00-3:00 PM
(Module 5) 		Project Milestone 4: Final Submission