ECE 469: Artificial Intelligence
Fall 2019
Tuesday 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Rm. 504,
Wednesday 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Rm. 104
Instructor: 
Carl Sable
e-mail: carl.sable@cooper.edu
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%
Three quizzes: 33 1/3%
Projects will be posted when they are assigned.
The schedule will be updated as the semester progresses. All dates 
which have not yet occurred should be considered tentative!
- Tuesday, September 3
 Topic: Introduction
 Suggested Reading: R&N Ch 1 and
Computing Machinery and Intelligence (Turing, 1950)
- Wednesday, September 4
 Introduction (continued)
 Topic: Intelligent Agents
 Suggested Reading: R&N Ch 2
- Tuesday, September 10
 Intelligent Agents (continued)
- Wednesday, September 11
 Topic: Simple Search Strategies
 Suggested Reading: R&N Sections 3.1 - 3.4 and 4.4.1
- Tuesday, September 17
 Simple Search Strategies (continued)
 Topic: Advanced Search Strategies
 Suggested Reading: R&N Sections 3.5 - 3.6, 4.1 - 4.2, and 4.5
- Wednesday, September 18
 Advanced Search Strategies (continued)
- Tuesday, September 24
 Advanced Search Strategies (continued)
- Wednesday, September 25
 Topic: Games
 Suggested Reading: R&N Chapter 5
 Click here
for textbook's alpha beta example with correct values.
 Click here
for my alpha beta example.
- Tuesday, October 1
 Games (continued)
- Wednesday, October 2
 Games (continued)
 Project #1 assigned and discussed
- Tuesday, October 8
 Games (continued)
- Wednesday, October 9
 Quiz #1
 Topic: Probability
 Suggested Reading: R&N Chapter 13
- Tuesday, October 15
 Topic: Probability (continued)
- Wednesday, October 16
 Topic: Bayesian Networks
 Suggested Reading: R&N Chapter 14
- Tuesday, October 22
 Topic: Bayesian Networks (continued)
- Wednesday, October 23
 Topic: Bayesian Learning
 Suggested Reading: R&N Chapter 20
- Tuesday, October 29
 Bayesian Learning (continued)
- Wednesday, October 30
 Topic: Decision Trees
 Suggested Reading: R&N Sections 18.1 - 18.3 and 18.10
- Tuesday, November 5
 Decision Trees (continued)
- Wednesday, November 16
 Topic: Neural Networks
 Suggested Reading: R&N Section 18.7
- Tuesday, November 12
 Neural Networks (continued)
- Wednesday, November 13
 Neural Networks (continued)
 Project #2 assigned and discussed
- Tuesday, November 19
 Quiz #2
- Wednesday, November 20
 Topic: Natural Languages
 Suggested Reading: R&N Chapter 23
- Tuesday, December 3
 Natural Languages (continued)
- Wednesday, December 4
 Topic: Statistical Natural Language Processing
 Suggested Reading: R&N Chapter 22
- Tuesday, December 10
 Statistical Natural Language Processing (continued)
- Wednesday, December 11
 Topic: Philosophy and AI
 Suggested Reading: R&N Chapter 26
- Tuesday, December 17
 Philosophy and AI (continued)
- Wednesday, December 18
 Quiz #3