Introduction to Artificial Inteligence - Fall 2001
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Lecture Topics
Following is a list of topics broken down roughly by weeks in the semester.
Times are tentative evaluations used in a previous semester.
Relevant chapters are from Russel and Norvig: "AI - a Modern Approach".
- What is AI? Intelligent agents (chaps. 1, 2) - Week 1.
- Problem solving and search
- Problem solving and search (chap 3) - week 2.
- Informed search methods (chap 4) - week 3.
- Adversarial games and game-tree search (chap 5) -
week 4.
- Knowledge and Reasoning
- Agents that reason logically - propositional logic (chap. 6) -
week 5.
- Using first-order logic (chap. 7) - week 6.
- Constructing a knowledge base (Chap. 8) - week 7.
- Inference in first-order logic (Chap. 9.1-9.6) -
week 8.
- Logical reasoning systems (Chap. 10.1-10.6, 10.8) -
week 9.
- Midterm exam - week 9 (May 3).
- Overview on planning (gloss on chapters 11, 12, 13) - week 10.
- Handling uncertainty (chapters 14, 15.1-15.4) -
weeks 10-11.
- Learning (chapters 18.1-18.4, 19.1-19.5, 20.8) -
weeks 11-12.
- Perception - computer vision (part of chapter 24) - weeks 12, 13.
- Final mid-term exam - week 13.
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