ECE 469: Artificial Intelligence
Spring 2004
Monday 3:00 - 5:00, Wednesday 4:00 - 5:00
Instructor:
Carl Sable
e-mail: sable2@cooper.edu
Office: Room 461
Office Hours: Monday, Wednesday 11:00 - 12:00;
Thursday 11:00 - 1:00
"Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Appraoch, 2nd Ed."
by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig
The book has a nice
associated website
Homeworks: 33 1/3%
Project 1: 33 1/3%
Project 2: 33 1/3%
Information on assignments will be posted when they are assigned.
The schedule will be updated as the semester progresses.
- Tuesday, January 18
Topic #1: Introduction
Suggested Reading: R&N Ch 1 and
Computing Machinery and Intelligence (Turing, 1950)
- Wednesday, January 19
Topic #2: Intelligent Agents
Suggested Reading: R&N Ch 2
- Monday, January 24
Topic #2 (continued)
- Wednesday, January 26
Topic #3: Uninformed Search
Suggested Reading: R&N Ch 3
- Monday, January 31
Topic #3 (continued)
- Wednesday, February 2
Topic #4: Informed search
Suggested Reading: R&N Ch 4
- Monday, February 7
Topic #4 (continued)
- Wednesday, Febrary 9
Topic #5: Constraint Satistfaction Problems
Suggested Reading: R&N Ch 5
- Monday, February 14
Topic #5 (continued)
- Wenesday, February 16
Topic #6: Games
Suggested Reading: R&N Ch 6
- Wenesday, February 23
Topic #6 (continued)
- Monday, February 28
Topic #6 (continued)
- Wenesday, March 2
Project #1 discussed
- Monday, March 7
Topic #7: Probability
Suggested Reading: R&N Ch 13
- Wednesday, March 9
Topic #8: Bayesian Networks
Suggested Reading: R&N Ch 14
- Monday, March 21
Topic #8 (continued)
- Wednesday, March 23
Topic #9: Decision Trees
Suggested Reading: R&N Ch 18
- Monday, March 28
Topic #9 (continued)
- Wednesday, March 30
Topic #10: Statistical Machine Learning
- Monday, April 4
Topic #10 (continued)
- Wednesday, April 6
Topic #10 (continued)
- Monday, April 11
Topic #10 (continued)
- Wednesday, April 13
Topic #10 (continued)
Project #2 discussed
- Monday, April 18
Topic #11: Natural Languages
Suggested Reading: R&N Ch 22
- Wednesday, April 20
Topic #11 (continued)
- Monday, April 25
Topic #12: Statistical NLP
Suggested Reading: R&N Ch 23
- Wednesday, April 27
Topic #12 (continued)
- Monday, May 2
Topic #13: Philosophy and AI
Suggested Reading: R&N Ch 26 and
Minds, Brains, and Programs (Searle, 1980)
- Wednesday, May 4
Topic #13 (continued)