CS 580 Schedule (subject to change: dates will be corrected and some slides may change)

Core Topics

Other topics

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Date Topics Resources Slides
8/30 Introduction to AI
Symbolic Programming: Lisp
Ch.1, Section 1. (Russell & Norvig)
Nilsson: Eye on the Prize
Graham/Wilensky/Steele
Introduction: postscript, pdf
Lisp slides: postscript, pdf
Plain text(intro.lisp)
9/13 Lisp (cont.)
Intelligent agents
Problem-solving
Ch. 1, Sec. 2; Ch. 2 (Russell & Norvig)
Intelligent agents: postscript, pdf
9/20 Problem-solving:
Uninformed search algorithms
Part II, Ch. 3 (Russell & Norvig) Uninformed search: postscript, pdf
9/27 Informed search algorithms Ch. 4 (Russell & Norvig) Informed search: postscript, pdf
10/4 Midterm preview
Constraint satisfaction
Ch. 5 (Russell & Norvig) Midterm preview: pdf, lisp
Constraint satisfaction: postscript, pdf
10/11 Constraint satisfaction
Midterm preview #2
Ch. 5 (Russell & Norvig) Midterm preview: pdf
Constraint satisfaction: postscript, pdf
10/18 Game playing
Midterm preview #3
Ch. 6 (Russell & Norvig) Midterm preview: pdf
Game playing: postscript, pdf
10/25 Game playing (cont.)
Midterm preview #3
Ch. 6 (Russell & Norvig) Midterm preview: pdf
Game playing: postscript, pdf
11/1

Midterm

4 pages of hand-written notes
Lisp book

11/8 Knowledge and Reasoning:
Logical agents
Part III, Ch. 7 (Russell & Norvig) Logical agents: pdf (6 slides per page)
pdf (2 slides per page)
11/15 First-order logic
Inference in first-order logic
Part III: Ch. 8; Ch. 9 First-order logic: pdf
Inference in first-order logic: pdf
11/22 Uncertainty
Belief networks
Inference in belief networks
Ch. 13 (Russell & Norvig)
Ch 14 (Russell & Norvig)
Uncertainty: pdf
Belief networks: pdf
Inference in belief networks: pdf
11/29 Learning Ch. 18 (Russell & Norvig) Decision Trees: pdf
11/25 Final Preview #1 (Logic)
Learning
Ch. 18; Ch. 19 Final preview: pdf
Decision Trees: pdf
Neural Networks: pdf
12/2 Final Preview #2 Ch. 24 (Russell & Norvig) Final preview: pdf
12/19 Projects due
12/20 Final exam:4:30-7:15pm

Zoran Duric (zduric@cs.gmu.edu)