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)