COSC 387: Artificial Intelligence

Fall 2010

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Schedule

Week 
Topic 
Chapters 
     
Week 1  Introduction: What is AI?
1
Week 2  Symbolic Programming and Lisp
 
Week 3  Symbolic Programming and Lisp
 
Week 4  Blind Search: Depth-First, Breadth-First
3.1-3.5
Week 5  Informed Search: Hill-Climbing, Best-First, Genetic Algorithms
4.1-4.3,
Week 6  Admissible Search: Branch-and-Bound, A*; Game Playing
4.1, 6.1-6.3
Week 7  Logic: Propsitional, Resolution
7.3-7.5
Week 8  Logic: Predicate, Unification, First-Order Resolution, Midterm Exam
9
Week 9 Uncertainty: Bayesian Inference Networks
13, 14.1-14.3
Week 10   Uncertainty: Utility Theory
16.2
Week 11  Learning: Decision Trees, Ensemble Methods
18.1-18.4
Week 12 Learning: Neural Networks, Perceptron, Back-propagation
20.5
Week 13 Perception: Binary and Grayscale Vision
24
Week 14 Perception: Smoothing, Edge Detection
24
Week 15 Philosophical Issues in AI
26


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