Syllabus
CS B551: Elements
of Artificial Intelligence
Fall 2011
Instructor: Kris Hauser
- AI and cognitive
science: Perspectives, goals, and history
- Judging AI systems;
the Turing test.
- Introduction to
intelligent agents
Problem-solving
and search
- The heuristic search
hypothesis
- Uninformed search
- Search heuristics
- A* search
- Local search
Applications of
Search
- Constraint
satisfaction problems
- Game playing, minimax, alpha-beta pruning
- Planning
- Motion planning
Reasoning under
Uncertainty
- Representing uncertainty
- Planning with
uncertainty
- Probabilistic
inference
- Bayesian networks
Machine Learning
- Decision tree learning
- Neural networks
- Support vector
machines
- Additional topics if
time permits
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