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CSCI 311: Artificial Intelligence
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| Meeting Times: | Mon., Wed., and Fri., 1:45-2:35pm in 438 McCardell Bicentennial Hall |
| Required Text: | Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, 2nd Ed., by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig |
| Reference Text: | ANSI Common Lisp, by Paul Graham |
| Course Homepage URL: | http://www.cs.middlebury.edu/~huang/Courses/CS311-F07/index.html |
| Instructor: | Tim Huang |
| 642 McCardell Bicentennial Hall, (802) 443-2431 | |
| Fall 2007 Office Hours: Mon. and Fri. 2:45-4:45pm, and by appointment |
This schedule is tentative and will be updated periodically. AI denotes readings from Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, and L denotes readings from ANSI Common Lisp.
| Date | Topic | Readings | Homework | |
| Mon., Sep. 10 | Class 1: What is Artificial Intelligence? | A 1 | ||
| Wed., Sep. 12 | Class 2: Introduction to Agents and Lisp | A 2; L 1-2 | HW 1 | |
| Fri., Sep. 14 | Class 3: Environments; More Lisp | A 2; L 1-2, 3.1-9, 5 | ||
| Mon., Sep. 17 | Class 4: More Lisp | L 1-6 | ||
| Wed., Sep. 19 | Class 5: Introduction to Search | L 1-6; A 3.1-3 | HW 2 | |
| Fri., Sep. 21 | Class 6: Uninformed Search Strategies | A 3.4-5 | ||
| Mon., Sep. 24 | Class 7: Informed Search Strategies I | A 4.1-2 | ||
| Wed., Sep. 26 | Class 8: Informed Search Strategies II | A 4.3 | HW 3 | |
| Fri., Sep. 28 | Class 9: Game-playing I | A 6.1-3 | ||
| Mon., Oct. 1 | Class 10: Game-playing II | A 6 | ||
| Wed., Oct. 3 | Class 11: Constraint Satisfaction | A 5.1-4 | HW 4 | |
| Fri., Oct. 5 | Class 12: Logic | A 7.1-3 | ||
| Mon., Oct. 8 | Class 13: Propositional and Predicate Logic | A 7.4-5; 8.1-3 | ||
| Wed., Oct. 10 | Class 14: Philosophical Foundations I | A 26 | ||
| Thu., Oct. 11 | Midterm 1: 7:00-9:00pm in MBH 438 | |||
| Fri., Oct. 12 | Class 15: Inference in Propositional Logic | A 7.1-5 | HW 5 | |
| Mon., Oct. 15 | Class 16: First-Order Logic | A 8 | ||
| Wed., Oct. 17 | Class 17: Inference in FOL | A 9.1-3 | ||
| Fri., Oct. 19 | Class 18: More Inference in FOL | A 9.4-5 | HW 6 | |
| Mon., Oct. 22 | No class: midterm recess | |||
| Wed., Oct. 24 | Class 19: Planning | A 11 | ||
| Fri., Oct. 26 | Class 20: Probability | A 13.1-6 | ||
| Mon., Oct. 29 | Class 21: Bayesian Networks | A 13.4-6; 14.1-3 | HW 7 | |
| Wed., Oct. 31 | Class 22: Inference in Bayesian Networks | A 14.4-5,8 | ||
| Fri., Nov. 2 | Class 23: Stochastic Simulation | A 14.5 | ||
| Mon., Nov. 5 | Class 24: Decision-Making; Utility Theory | A 16.1-3, 5-6 | HW 8 | |
| Wed., Nov. 7 | Class 25: Inductive Learning | A 18.1-3 | ||
| Fri., Nov. 9 | Class 26: Decision Tree Learning | A 18.3 | ||
| Mon., Nov. 12 | Class 27: Neural Networks | A 20.5 | ||
| Wed., Nov. 14 | Class 28: Multi-layer Neural Networks | A 20.5 | ||
| Thu., Nov. 15 | Midterm 2: 7:00-9:00pm in MBH 438 | |||
| Fri., Nov. 16 | Class 29: Philosophical Foundations II | A 26 | ||
| Mon., Nov. 19 | Class 30: Temporal Difference Learning | A 21.1-2 | Final project (incl. Boggle) | |
| Wed., Nov. 21 | No class: Thanksgiving recess | |||
| Fri., Nov. 23 | No class: Thanksgiving recess | |||
| Mon., Nov. 26 | Class 31: No class (doctor's appt) | |||
| Wed., Nov. 28 | Class 32: Communication and Language | A 22 | HW 6 | |
| Fri., Nov. 30 | Class 33: Speech Recognition | 15.6 | ||
| Mon., Dec. 3 | Class 34: Robotics and Vision | A 24, 25 | ||
| Wed., Dec. 5 | Class 35: Final Project Presentations | |||
| Fri., Dec. 7 | Class 36: Future of AI; Course Summary | A 27 |
The work you submit in CS 311 must be the result of your own individual effort. You may discuss the concepts related to homework and programming problems with your peers, but you must write up specific solutions and programs individually, and you must include the names of the students with whom you discussed the assignment. You may not read or copy someone else's solutions from the current or past semesters or from another institution, and you should never have in your possession a copy of all or part of another student's or team's assignment. It is also your responsibility to protect your own work from unauthorized access by others. Exams must be entirely your own work. If you have any questions about how the honor code applies, please ask me.
I suggest the following procedure if you discuss the homework problems with other students: spend as much time as you need working with others to understand the problems, take a break to read the newspaper or play ping pong, and then go back and write up your solutions without the notes you used while working with the others. This will help ensure that you follow both the letter and the spirit of honor code.
Participation 5%
Homework 30%
Midterm #1 15%
Midterm #2 15%
Final Project 15%
Final 20%
All assignments will be posted on this web page and must be turned in at the beginning of class on the day they are due. On each assignment, you should include your name and computer login name, as well as the names of those students with whom you discussed the assignment. No late homeworks will be accepted. However, each student is allotted three 24-hour extensions to use on any homework assignment during the term except the final project.
Midterm 1 will be held on Thursday, October 11, from 7-9pm, in MBH 438. Midterm 2 will be held on Thursday, November 15, from 7-9pm, in MBH 438. There will be a final exam during the final exam period.