CMSC 421, Intro to AI - Fall 2008

Dana Nau

Note: Everything below is tentative until it actually occurs.
I'm revising the schedule and the lecture notes as I go along.

Thurs Sept 4
- Finish Chapter 3
- Sections 4.1-4.2 - informed search
Tues Sept 9
- Finish Sections 4.1-4.2
- Start Sections 4.3-4.4 - local search
Thurs Sept 11
- Finish Sections 4.3-4.4
- Start Chapter 5 - constraint satisfaction
Tues Sept 16
- Finish Chapter 5
- Start discussing Lisp
Thurs Sept 18
- Continue discussing Lisp
Tues Sept 23
- Finish discussing Lisp
Thurs Sept 25
- assign first programming project
Tues Sept 30
- Chapter 6 and Section 17.6 - game playing
Thurs Oct 2
- Start Chapter 7 - logical agents
Tues Oct 7
- Finish Chapter 7
- Start Chapter 8 - first-order logic
Thurs Oct 9
- Finish Chapter 8
- Start Chapter 9 - inference in FOL
Tues Oct 14
- review for the midterm exam
Thurs Oct 16
- Midterm exam
Tues Oct 21
- Finish Chapter 9 - inference in FOL
- assign second programming project
Thurs Oct 23
- (we will skip Chapter 10)
- Planning (≈ Chapter 11)
Tues Oct 28
- Finish Planning (≈ Chapter 11)
- Start HTN planning (≈ Section 12.2)
Thurs Oct 30
- Return the midterm exams
- Finish HTN planning (≈ Section 12.2)
- Start Chapter 13, uncertainty
Tues Nov 4
- Chapter 13, uncertainty
Thurs Nov 6
- Finish Chapter 13, uncertainty
- Start Sections 14.1-14.5, Bayesian networks
Tues Nov 11

Thurs Nov 13
- Chapter 16, rational decisions
Tues Nov 18
- Sections 17.1-17.3, complex decisions
Thurs Nov 20
- Chapter 18, Learning from Observation
- Chapter 20 Sections 1-3, statistical learning
Tues Nov 25
- Chapter 20, Section 5 - neural networks
Thurs Nov 27
- no class (Thanksgiving holiday)
Tues Dec 2
- Chapter 22, Natural Language
Thurs Dec 4
- Chapter 24, Vision
Tues Dec 9
- Chapter 25, Robotics
Thurs Dec 11
- review for the final exam
Sat Dec 20, 10:30-12:30 - Final exam