ECE 469: Artificial Intelligence
Fall 2013
Wenesday 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Rm 502,
Thursday 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Rm 506
Instructor:
Carl Sable
e-mail: CarlSable.Cooper@gmail.com
Office: Room 614
"Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Appraoch, 3rd Ed."
by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig
The book has a nice
associated website
Project 1: 33 1/3%
Project 2: 33 1/3%
Final Exam: 33 1/3%
Project #1
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for a suggested schedule and other helpful information
Click here for a readme file
briefly describing the files provided below
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to download my Checkers executable (compiled under Cygwin)
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to download my Othello executable (compiled under cygwin)
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for cygwin1.dll (if you need it; see the readme)
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to download my Checkers executable (compiled under Ubuntu)
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to download my Othello executable (compiled under Ubuntu)
Sample Checkers board #1
Sample Checkers board #2
Sample Checkers board #3
Sample Checkers board #4
Sample Checkers board #5
Sample Checkers board #6
Sample Checkers board #7
Sample Checkers board #8
Sample Checkers board #9
Sample Checkers board #10
Sample Othello board #1
Sample Othello board #2
Project #2
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for my annoated version of Figure 18.24
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for the raw data of the Wisconsin Diagnostic Breast Cancer (WDBC)
dataset
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for a description of the data set by its creators
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for my pre-processed WDBC training set file
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for my pre-processed WDBC test set file
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for my initial neural network for the WDBC dataset
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for my trained neural network for the WDBC dataset
(with a learning rate of 0.1 after 100 epochs)
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for my results file (using the above trained neural network)
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for a mini WDBC training set with one document (to help with debugging)
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for the neural network trained on the mini WDBC training set
(with a learning rate of 0.1 after 1 epoch)
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for my grades training file
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for my grades test file
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for my inital neural network for the grades dataset
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for my trained neural network for the grades dataset
(with a learning rate of 0.05 after 100 epochs)
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for my results file (using the above trained neural network)
The schedule will be updated as the semester progresses.
- Wednesday, September 4
Topic: Introduction
Suggested Reading: R&N Ch 1 and
Computing Machinery and Intelligence (Turing, 1950)
- Thursday, September 5
Topic: Intelligent Agents
Suggested Reading: R&N Ch 2
- Wednesday, September 11
Topic: Simple Search Strategies
Suggested Reading: R&N Sections 3.1 - 3.4 and 4.4.1
- Thursday, September 12
Simple Search Strategies (continued)
- Wednesday, September 18
Topic: Advanced Search Strategies
Suggested Reading: R&N Sections 3.5 - 3.6, 4.1 - 4.2, and 4.5
- Thursday, September 19
Advanced Search Strategies (continued)
- Wednesday, September 25
Topic: Games
Suggested Reading: R&N Chapter 5
- Thursday, September 26
Games (continued)
- Wednesday, October 2
Games (continued)
- Thursday, October 3
Games (continued)
Project #1 assigned and discussed
- Wednesday, October 9
Topic: Probability
Suggested Reading: R&N Chapter 13
- Thursday, October 10
Probability (continued)
- Wednesday, October 16
Topic: Bayesian Networks
Suggested Reading: R&N Chapter 14
- Thursday, October 17
Bayesian Networks (continued)
Topic: Bayesian Learning
Suggested Reading: R&N Chapter 20
- Wednesday, October 23
Bayesian Learning (continued)
- Thursday, October 24
Bayesian Learning (continued)
Topic: Decision Trees
Suggested Reading: R&N Sections 18.1 - 18.3 and 18.10
- Wednesday, October 30
Decision Trees (continued)
- Thursday, October 31
Decision Trees (continued)
Topic: Neural Networks
Suggested Reading: R&N Section 18.7
- Wednesday, November 6
Neural Networks (continued)
- Thursday, November 7
Neural Networks (continued)
Topic: Miscellaneous Machine Learning
Suggested Reading: R&N Sections 15.3, 18.8, 18.9, and 20.3.3
- Wednesday, November 13
Miscellaneous Machine Learning (continued)
- Thursday, November 14
Project #2 assigned and discussed
Miscellaneous Machine Learning (continued)
- Wednesday, November 20
Topic: Natural Languages
Suggested Reading: R&N Chapter 23
- Thursday, November 21
Natural Languages (continued)
- Tuesday, November 26 (Thursday schedule)
Topic: Statistical Natural Language Processing
Suggested Reading: R&N Chapter 22
- Wednesday, December 4
Statistical Natural Language Processing (continued)
- Thursday, December 5
Topic: Philosophy and AI
Suggested Reading: R&N Chapter 26 and
Minds, Brains, and Programs (Searle, 1980)
- Wednesday, December 11
Philosophy and AI (continued)
- Wednesday, December 18
FINAL EXAM
From 10:00 am - 1:00 pm in Rm. 503