EE 459: Artificial Intelligence
Spring 2004
Monday 5:00 - 6:00, Thursday 2:00 - 4:00
Instructor:
Carl Sable
e-mail: sable2@cooper.edu
Office: Room 461
Office Hours: Monday 12:00 - 1:00;
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday 11:00 - 12:00
"Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Appraoch, 2nd Ed."
by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig
The book has a nice
associated website
Homeworks: 25%
Project 1: 25%
Project 2: 25%
Final: 25%
Information on assignments will be posted when they are assigned.
The schedule will be updated as the semester progresses.
- Thursday, January 22
Topic #1: Introduction
Suggested Reading: R&N Ch 1 and
Computing Machinery and Intelligence (Turing, 1950)
- Friday, January 23
Topic #2: Intelligent Agents
Suggested Reading: R&N Ch 2
- Thursday, January 29
Topic #3: Uninformed Search
Suggested Reading: R&N Ch 3
- Friday, January 30
Topic #3 (continued)
- Thursday, February 5
Topic #4: Informed search
Suggested Reading: R&N Ch 4
- Friday, February 6
Topic #4 (continued)
- Thursday, February 12
Topic #5: Constraint Satisfaction Problems
Suggested Reading: R&N Ch 5
- Thursday, February 19
Topic #5 (continued)
- Monday, February 23
Topic #6: Games
Suggested Reading: R&N Ch 6
- Thursday, February 26
Topic #6 (continued)
- Monday, March 1
Project #1 discussed
- Thursday, March 4
Topic #7: Probability
Suggested Reading: R&N Ch 13
- Monday, March 8
Topic #8: Bayesian Networks
Suggested Reading: R&N Ch 14
- Thursday, March 11
Topic #8 (continued)
- Monday, March 22
Topic #9: Natural Languages
Suggested Reading: R&N Ch 22
- Thursday, March 25
Topic #9 (continued)
- Monday, March 29
Topic #10: Statistical Natural Language Processing
Suggested Reading: R&N Ch 23
- Thursday, April 1
Topic #10 (continued)
- Monday, April 5
Demo of
Newsblaster
- Thursday, April 8
Topic #11: Text Categorization
Suggested Reading: Chapter 2 of
my
thesis
- Monday, April 12
Topic #12: Decision Trees
Suggested Reading: R&N Ch 18
- Thursday, April 15
Topic #12 (continued)
- Monday, April 19
Topic #13: Statistical Machine Learning
Suggested Reading: R&N Ch 20 and optionally
A Tutorial on Support Vector Machines for
Pattern Recognition
- Thursday, April 22
Topic #13 (continued)
- Monday, April 26
Topic #13 (continued)
- Thursday, April 29
Topic #14: Philosophy and AI
Suggested Reading: R&N Ch 26 and
Minds, Brains, and Programs (Searle, 1980)
- Monday, May 3
Topic #14 (continued)
- Thursday, May 6
FINAL EXAM