CSC 480 - Foundations of Artificial Intelligence

Class Schedule

Date	Topics	Readings & Assignments
Sep. 07	Introduction Note: Lecture Videos are posted on D2L site for the course. Course Overview Introduction to AI & Intelligent Agents	Read Chapters 1 and 2 of AIMA book Supplemental Reading: History of AI (Wikipedia) Artificial Intelligence (Standford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) The Turing Test Assignments: Quiz 1 (D2L) Due: Thursday Sep. 15
Sep. 14	Problem Solving as Search Search Introduction Uninformed Search Heuristic Search	Read Chapter 3 of AIMA book Supplemental Reading: *A Search Algorithm (Wikipedia) Assignments: Assignment 1 Posted Quiz 2 (D2L) due Thursday Sep.** 22
Sep. 21	Adversarial Search and Games PPT Slides	Read Chapter 5 of AIMA book Supplemental Reading: Minimax (Wikipedia) Alpha-Beta Pruning (Wikipedia) Advesarial Search (Javatpoint) Assignments: Quiz 2 (D2L) due Thursday Sep. 22 Assignment 1 - Due Thursday Sep. 29
Sep. 28	Constraint Satisfaction Problems PPT Slides	Read Chapter 6 of AIMA book Assignments: Quiz 3 Posted (D2L) (Due Oct. 06) Assignment 2 Posted (Due: Oct. 13)
Oct. 05	Logical Inference & Reasoning Agents PPT Slides	Read Chapters 7, 8 and 9 of AIMA book Supplemental Reading: Notes on Logic Programing & Prolog SWISH - An online Prolog Interpreter Assignments: Quiz 3 Due Oct. 06 Assignment 2 Due Oct. 13 Quiz 4 Posted (D2L) (Due Sunday, Oct. 16)
Oct. 12	Logical Inference & Reasoning Agents (Cont.) Prolog Programming Examples	Review: Notes on Logic Programing & Prolog Learning Prolog Now Assignments: Quiz 4 Due Oct. 16 Quiz 5 (D2L) Posted (Due Sunday, Oct. 23) Assignment 3 Posted (Due: Oct. 27)
Oct. 19	Reasoning with Uncertainty PPT Slides	Read Chapters 13 and 14 (14.1 and 14.2) of AIMA. Supplemental Reading: Bayes Theorem (Wikipedia) A Gentle Introduction to Bayes Theorem for Machine Learning Assignments: Quiz 5 is due on Oct. 23 Assignment 3 is due on Oct. 27
Oct. 26	Machine Learning I Data Mining & Machine Learning Overview Classification & Prediction: Basic Concepts Distances & Similarities: K-Nearest-Neighbor Learning	Read Chapter 18 of AIMA book Supplemental Reading: Text Classification: A Comprehensive Guide Assignments: Quiz 6 Posted (D2L) Due Nov. 03 Assignment 4 posted. Due Nov. 10
Nov. 02	Machine Learning II Classification Using Decision Trees Unsupervised Learning with Clustering	Read Chapters 18 of AIMA book Supplemental Reading: Supplemental Notes on Clustering (Based on Notes from Ed Fox, Virginia Tech.) Assignments: Quiz 6: Due Nov. 03 Assignment 4 due: Nov. 10
Nov. 09	Decision Theoretic Agents and Markov Decision Processes Decision Theoretic Agents & Markov Decision Processes Note: The above slides are provided as supplemental material. This topic will not be covered in the Final Exam.	Read Chapters 16 and 17 of AIMA book Supplemental Reading: Markov Decision Process (Wikipedia)
Nov. 17-18	Final Exam (Thursday Nov. 17 through Friday Nov. 18) Final Exam Information and Review Guide