Introduction to Artificial Inteligence - Spring 2004-2005
BGU Computer Science Department
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",
(first edition - 1995).
- 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).
- Constructing a knowledge base (Chap. 8). (Will probably be omitted this time).
- Inference in first-order logic (Chap. 9.1-9.6).
- Logical reasoning systems (Chap. 10.1-10.6).
- Handling uncertainty (chapters 14, 15.1-15.4).
- Learning (chapters 18.1-18.4, 19.1-19.5, 20.8).
- Perception - computer vision (part of chapter 24) - week 13
Additional online material
Most course slides are from
Stuart Russel's home page,
from the
slides directory
for the first edition.
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