CSC 380/480 - DePaul University

CSC 380/480 - Foundations of Artificial Intelligence - Winter 2007

Class Material

Date	Lecture Notes	Reading
Jan 9	Introduction to AI; Intelligent Agents Supplemental Reading The Turing Test Applications of Intelligent Agents, by Jennings and Wooldridge.	Ch. 1, 2
Jan 16	Problem Solving and Search Supplement: Basic Search Strategies: A Detailed Example Supplemental Reading McCarthy - What is Artificial Intelligence AI Topics - Reference Web Site	Ch. 3
Jan 23	Search Strategies: Blind v. Heuristic Search Supplement: Search Exercise Supplemental Reading JSearch Applet for visualizing different search algorithms A* Search Algorithm (Wikipedia) Heuristic Search	Ch. 4
Jan 30	Heuristic Search (Cont.) Logic and Knowledge Representation Supplemental Reading Introduction to Predicate Logic. What is Knowledge Representation, R. Davis, et al.	Ch. 7, 8
Feb 6	Logic and Knowledge Representation (Cont.)	Ch. 8, 9
Feb 13	Logical Inference and Reasoning Agents Supplemental Reading Notes on Logic Programming and Prolog.	Ch. 9
Feb 20	Adversarial Search and Games Supplemental Material Example: Minimax with Alpha-Beta Pruning	Ch. 6
Feb 27	Reasoning with Uncertainty; Probabilistic Reasoning	Ch. 13; 14.1-2, 14.7
Mar 6	Probabilistic Reasoning (continued)Introduction to Machine Learning	16.1, 16.2, 17.1; 18.1-18.3; 19.1
Mar 13	Final Exam / Projects Due

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