Learning Objective
There are three primary objectives for the course:
- To provide a broad survey of AI and Intelligent Systems;
- To develop a deeper understanding of several major topics in AI;
- To develop the design and programming skills that will help you to build intelligent artifacts.
The course is designed to present a solid entry point to the field of artificial intelligence. It will provide the foundation to go on to take other upper division AI courses. For those students with interest, it could possibly lead to subsequent research opportunities.
Course Content
There is no generally accepted definition of artificial intelligence. Some that have been proposed include:
- The science of getting computers to do the things they can't do yet.
- Finding fast algorithms for NP-hard problems.
- Getting computers to do the things they do in the movies.
This course provides a broad introduction to artificial intelligence. Topics include:
- problem solving, including search and game playing
- knowledge and reasoning, including inference
- planning
- reasoning under uncertainty
- machine learning
Schedule
| Week / Date | Lectures | Homework | Projects |
| Week 1 Aug 24 2022 |
Introduction to AI | HW0 | PJ0 |
| Week 2 Aug 31 2022 |
Search | HW1 | PJ1 |
| Week 3 Sep 7 2022 |
Constraint Satisfaction Problems | HW2 | |
| Week 4 Sep 14 2022 |
Adversarial Search | HW3 | PJ2 |
| Week 5 Sep 21 2022 |
Markov Decision Processes | HW4 | |
| Week 6 Sep 28 2022 |
Reinforcement Learning | HW5 | PJ3 |
| Week 7 Oct 5 2022 |
Probability and Bayes Nets: Representation | ||
| Week 8 Oct 12 2022 |
Bayesian Networks: Inference | HW6 | |
| Week 9 Oct 19 2022 |
Bayesian Networks: Independence and Sampling | HW7 | PJ4 |
| Week 10 Oct 26 2022 |
Decision Networks, VPI, and Hidden Markov Models | HW8 | |
| Week 11 Nov 2 2022 |
Particle filtering and Machine Learning: Naïve Bayes | ||
| Week 12 Nov 9 2022 |
Machine Learning: Perceptrons and Logistic Regression | HW9 | |
| Week 13 Nov 16 2022 |
Machine Learning: Optimization and Neural Networks | HW10 | PR5 |
| Week 14 Nov 23 2022 |
Thanks Giving No Classes | ||
| Week 15 Nov 30 2022 |
Advanced Applications: Games and Robotics and Conclusion | ||
| Week 16 Dec 7-14 2022 |
Exams |