Schedule for CS4811
Artificial Intelligence
Spring 2017


Week Date Topic/Read Before Class Slides Assignment Collect
1 M, 01/09 Course overview, go over the syllabus
Brief introduction to AI and intelligent agents
Ch. 18, Section 7: Neural Networks
ch01-ch02-intro.pdf
ch18-06-07.pdf
class notes
example training
   
  W, 01/11 Ch. 18, Section 7: Neural Networks (cont'd) nn-algorithm.pdf
nn-example.pdf
class notes
hw1: neural networks
assigned
(pdf file)
 
  M, 01/16 Make up class
Location: Fisher 131 (regular classroom)
Ch. 18, Section 7: Neural Networks (cont'd)
   
2 M, 01/16 no class -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day recess      
  W, 01/18 Ch. 18, Section 7: Neural Networks (review and summary)
Ch. 3, Sections 1 -- 4: Search, Uninformed Search
ch03-a.pdf
class notes
   
3 M, 01/23 Ch. 3, Sections 1 -- 4: Search, Uninformed Search (cont'd) class notes    
  W, 01/25 Ch. 3, Sections 1 -- 4: Search, Uninformed Search (cont'd) class notes    
4 M, 01/30 Ch. 3, Sections 1 -- 4: Search, Uninformed Search (cont'd)
Ch. 3, Sections 5 -- 6: Informed (Heuristic) Search
ch03-b.pdf
class notes
   
  W, 02/01 Ch. 3, Sections 5 -- 6: Informed (Heuristic) Search (cont'd)
Ch. 4, Section 1: Local Search Algorithms and Optimization Problems
ch04.pdf
class notes
   
5 M, 02/06 Ch. 4, Section 1: Local Search Algorithms and Optimization Problems (cont'd)
Evolutionary Algorithms (Genetic Algorithms and Differential Evolution)
ch04-evol.pdf
class notes
   
  W, 02/08 Ch. 5: Adversarial Search ch05.pdf
ch05-examples.pdf
Article about Go game
   
6 M, 02/13 Ch. 18, Section 3: Learning Decision Trees ch18-03.pdf
class notes
   
  W, 02/15 Ch. 18, Section 3: Learning Decision Trees (cont'd) class notes    
7 M, 02/20 Ch. 19, Section 1: Knowledge in Learning
Version space learning
ch19-01.pdf    
  W, 02/22 No class due to the MTU Spring Career Fair
(Note: We made this class up at the beginning of the semester.)
     
8 M, 02/27 Review for Exam 1
Optional topic: Constant time shortest-path queries
   In Transit to Constant Time Shortest-Path Queries in Road Networks
     Holger Bast, et al.
   TRANSIT Routing on Video Game Maps
     Leonid Antsfeld, et al.
class notes    
  W, 03/01 Exam 1
Time: 4:00pm-5:30pm        Location: Fisher 131
Sections covered: TBA
     
-- M, 03/06 no class -- Spring recess      
  W, 03/08 no class -- Spring recess      
9 M, 03/13 Ch. 18, supplemental
Clustering
clustering.pdf
class notes
   
  W, 03/15 Ch. 18, supplemental
Clustering (cont'd)
class notes    
10 M, 03/20 Ch. 07 - Logical Agents part1.pdf
class notes
   
  W, 03/22 Ch. 07 - Logical Agents (cont'd) part2.pdf
class notes
   
11 M, 03/27        
  W, 03/29 Ch. 08 - First-Order Logic ch08.pdf
class notes
   
  M, 04/03 Ch. 09 - Inference in First-Order Logic ch09.pdf
class notes
   
  W, 04/05 Ch. 13: Quantifying uncertainty
   Probabilistic reasoning
ch13.pdf
class notes
   
13 M, 04/10        
  W, 04/12 Exam 2
Time: 4:00pm-5:30pm        Location: Fisher 131
Sections covered: TBA
     
14 M, 04/17   class notes    
  W, 04/19        
(Created: January 1, 2017)