CMSC 421, Intro to AI - Fall 2008

Dana Nau

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Notes:

For lectures that haven't occurred yet, the scheduled
dates are tentative. I'll reschedule things as I go along.
For lectures that haven't occurred yet, the lecture notes
are old and out-of-date. I'll update them 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
- Continue discussing Lisp
Thurs Sept 25
- Finish discussing Lisp
- assign first programming project
Tues Sept 30
- Chapter 6 and Section 17.6 - game playing
Thurs Oct 2
- Finish Section 17.6
Tues Oct 7
- Start Chapter 7 - logical agents
Thurs Oct 9
- Finish Chapter 7
Tues Oct 14
- review for the midterm exam
- my code for Project 1
Thurs Oct 16
- Midterm exam
Tues Oct 21
- Assign second programming project
- Start Chapter 8 - first-order logic
Thurs Oct 23
- Finish Chapter 8 - first-order logic
- Start Chapter 9 - inference in FOL
Tues Oct 28
- Finish Chapter 9 - inference in FOL
- (we will skip Chapter 10)
- Start Planning (≈ Chapter 11 and Section 12.2)
Thurs Oct 30
Tues Nov 4
- Return graded exams
- Finish Planning (≈ Chapter 11 and Section 12.2)
Thurs Nov 6
- Homework assignment for Chapters 9 and 11
- Chapter 13, uncertainty
- assign third programming project
Tues Nov 11

Thurs Nov 13
- Chapter 20, Section 5 - neural networks
  (lecture by Jim Reggia)
Tues Nov 18
- Assign Project 3
- Finish Chapter 13, uncertainty
- Start Sections 14.1-14.5, Bayesian networks
Thurs Nov 20
- Finish Sections 14.1-14.5, Bayesian networks
- Start Chapter 16, rational decisions
Tues Nov 25
- Finish Chapter 16, rational decisions
Thurs Nov 27
- no class (Thanksgiving holiday)
Tues Dec 2
- Chapter 18, Learning from Observation
Thurs Dec 4
- Chapter 22, Natural Language
- Part-of-Speech Tagging
Tues Dec 9
- Chapter 24, Vision