6 Programming Assignments | 50% |
3 Take-Home Exams | 50% |
Class Participation | Tiebreaker |
Dates | Topic | Readings |
Sep 2 | Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Agents | Chs 1, 2 |
Sep 7, 9 | Naive Search | Ch 3 |
Sep 14, 16 | Informed Search | Ch 3 |
Sep 21, 23, 28 | Constraint Satisfaction | Ch 6 |
Sep 30, Oct 5 | Adversarial Search -- Games | Ch 5 |
Oct 7 | Local Search | Ch 4 |
Oct 14 | Simulated Annealing | Ch 4 |
Oct 15-17 | Take-Home Exam 1 | Chs 1-3, 5-6 |
Oct 19, 21, 26, 28 | Nature-Inspired Algorithms | Ch 4 and Handouts |
Nov 2, 4 | Propositional Logic | Ch 7 |
Nov 9, 11 | Rule-Based Systems and Decision Trees | Ch 18 |
Nov 16, 18 | Neural Networks | Ch 18 |
Nov 19-21 | Take-Home Exam 2 | Chs 4,7, Handouts |
Nov 23, 30, Dec 2 | Reinforcement Learning | Ch 21 |
Dec 7, 9 | Artificial Intelligence Revisited | Handouts |
Exam Period | Take-Home Exam 3 | Chs 18, 21 |
Dates | Topic |
Sep 9 | OUT: A1, Part 1 (Naive Search) |
Sep 16 | OUT: A1, Part 2 (Informed Search) |
Sep 23 | DUE: A1 OUT: A2 (Constraint Satisfaction) |
Sep 30 | GRADED: A1 DUE: A2 |
Oct 14 | GRADED: A2 |
Oct 15-17 | Take-Home Exam 1 (up to and including Adversarial Search) |
Oct 21 | OUT: A3 (Nature-Inspired Algorithms) |
Nov 4 | DUE: A3 OUT: A4 (Propositional Logic) |
Nov 11 | GRADED: A3 DUE: A4 |
Nov 18 | GRADED: A4 OUT: A5 (Neural Networks) |
Nov 19-21 | Take-Home Exam 2 (Local Search through Propositional Logic) |
Nov 30 | DUE: A5 OUT: A6 (Reinforcement Learning) |
Dec 7 | GRADED: A5 DUE: A6 |
Dec 14 | GRADED: A6 |
Exam Period | Take-Home Exam 3 (Rule-Based Systems and Decision Trees through Reinforcement Learning) |