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B551 Fall 2011

(subject to change)

No.	Date		Subject	Out	In	Readings
1	30-Aug	Tu	Class overview. Intro to AI			R&N 1,26
2	1-Sep	Th	Search	HW1		R&N 3.1-3
3	6-Sep	Tu	Search, pt 2			R&N 3.4
4	8-Sep	Th	Heuristic search			R&N 3.5
5	13-Sep	Tu	Beyond classical search			R&N 4.1-5, 6.1-3
6	15-Sep	Th	Game playing	HW2	HW1	R&N 5.1-4
7	20-Sep	Tu	Partially observable, stochastic games			R&N 5.5-6
8	22-Sep	Th	Introduction to uncertainty			R&N 4.3-4,13.1-2
9	27-Sep	Tu	Probabilistic inference			R&N 13.3-6
10	29-Sep	Th	Bayesian networks	HW3	HW2	R&N 14.1-3
11	4-Oct	Tu	Bayesian networks, pt 2			R&N 14.4-5
12	6-Oct	Th	Probabilistic temporal models	HW4	HW3	R&N 15
13	11-Oct	Tu	Probabilistic temporal models, pt 2			R&N 15
14	13-Oct	Th	Statistical learning			R&N 20.1-2
15	18-Oct	Tu	Intro to machine learning			R&N 18.1-2
16	20-Oct	Th	Decision tree learning	HW5	HW4	R&N 18.3
17	25-Oct	Tu	Neural networks			R&N 18.6-7
18	27-Oct	Th	Support vector machines	HW6	HW5	R&N 18.8-9
19	1-Oct	Tu	Evaluating learning			R&N 18.4-5
20	3-Nov	Th	Intelligent agents			R&N 2
21	8-Nov	Tu	Decision theoretic planning			R&N 17.1-4
22	10-Nov	Th	Partially observable problems	HW7	HW6	R&N 11.1-4
23	15-Nov	Tu	Reinforcement learning			R&N 21.1-2
24	17-Nov	Th	Computer vision (Guest lecture, David Crandall)	HW8	HW7
25	22-Nov	Tu	Partially observable problems
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26	29-Nov	Tu	Robot motion planning
27	1-Dec	Th	Natural language processing (Guest lecture, Mike Gasser)
28	6-Dec	Tu	Review
29	8-Dec	Th	Final project presentations	Practice solns	HW8

Homework assignments

HW1. Uninformed search and heuristic search. (partly written, partly programming)

HW2. Minimax search for the Gobblet game. (programming)

HW3. Probabilistic inference and Bayesian networks. (written)

HW4. Bayesian networks for a voter prediction application. (programming)

HW5. Decision trees and statistical learning. (written)

HW6. Machine learning for text classification. (programming)

HW7. Intelligent agents and decision theoretic planning. (written)

HW8. Integrated perception and planning for multiagent interaction. (programming)