CS 540: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, University of Wisconsin

Schedule

Lecture: 9:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, Room 125 Agricultural Hall

Prerequisite

CS 300 or CS 367, and Math 211, 217, 221 or 275

Instructor

  Office:       6376 Computer Sciences Building
  Telephone:    469-5154
  E-mail:       dyer@cs.wisc.edu
  Office Hours: 2:30 - 4:00 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, and by appointment

Teaching Assistants

Yunang Chen

  Office:       1307 Computer Sciences Building
  E-mail:       ychen459@wisc.edu
  Office Hours: 4 - 5 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays, and by appointment

Mehmet Demirel

  Office:	3387 Computer Sciences Building	
  E-mail:	demirel@wisc.edu
  Office Hours: 4 - 5 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, and by appointment

Bastin Joseph

  Office:	4297 Computer Sciences Building	
  E-mail:	bjoseph5@wisc.edu
  Office Hours: 2 - 4 p.m. Thursdays, and by appointment

Shitao Li

  Office:	1307 Computer Sciences Building	
  E-mail:	sli564@wisc.edu
  Office Hours: 5 - 6 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, and by appointment

Ethan Sayles

  Office:	4237 Computer Sciences Building	
  E-mail:	ethansayles98@gmail.com
  Office Hours: 3 - 4 p.m. Mondays and 5 - 6 p.m. Tuesdays, and by appointment

Rohit Sharma

  Office:	4235 Computer Sciences Building	
  E-mail:	rsharma@cs.wisc.edu
  Office Hours: 3 - 4 p.m. Thursdays and 4 - 5 p.m. Fridays, and by appointment

Tananun Songdechakraiwut

  Office:	3310 Computer Sciences Building	
  E-mail:	songdechakra@wisc.edu
  Office Hours: 2:30 - 4:30 p.m. Wednesdays, and by appointment

Young Wu

  Office:	4397 Computer Sciences Building	
  E-mail:	wu489@wisc.edu
  Office Hours: 6 - 8 p.m. Wednesdays in room 1304, and by appointment

Peer Mentors

ALL PEER MENTOR OFFICE HOURS ARE HELD IN ROOM 1304 CS

Tanmay Bagaria

  E-mail: tbagaria@wisc.edu
  Office Hours: 3:30 - 7 p.m. Mondays and 2:30 - 5 p.m. Tuesdays in room 1304 CS

Shrehit Goel

  E-mail: sgoel22@wisc.edu
  Office Hours: 8:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. Saturdays in room 1304 CS

Jerry (Jiayuan) Huang

  E-mail: jhuang372@wisc.edu
  Office Hours: 1 - 3 p.m. Thursdays, 12 - 1 p.m. Fridays, and 1 - 4 p.m. Saturdays in room 1304 CS

Steven Kan

  E-mail: pkan2@wisc.edu
  Office Hours: 5:30 - 7 p.m. Tuesdays, 6:30 - 9 p.m. Thursdays, and 5 - 9 p.m. Fridays in room 1304 CS

Atharva Kulkarni

  E-mail: akulkarni23@wisc.edu
  Office Hours: 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Mondays, 12:15 - 2:15 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays in room 1304 CS

Daniel (Xuri) Li

  E-mail: xli892@wisc.edu
  Office Hours: 1 - 6 p.m. Sundays in room 1304 CS

Tushar Narang

  E-mail: tnarang@wisc.edu
  Office Hours: 2 - 4 p.m. Wednesdays, 3 - 4 p.m. Thursdays, 1 - 4 p.m. Fridays in room 1304 CS

Suyan Qu

  E-mail: squ27@wisc.edu
  Office Hours: 3 - 6 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays in room 1304 CS

Textbook

Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, 3rd edition, S. Russell and P. Norvig, Pearson, 2010

Grading

Midterm Exam: 30%
Final Exam: 30%
Homework Assignments: 40%

Note: Typically, final grades have been distributed approximately as follows in recent semesters I have taught CS 540. Of course, interpret these as rough guidelines because scores cluster differently from semester to semester. The median student's course grade is usually a low B. The percentiles refer to ranking in the class based on the final weighted score.

    A   top ~15-20% of class
    AB next ~15-20%
    B  next ~15-25%
    BC next ~15-20%
    C  next ~15-20%
    D  next ~2-5%
    F  next ~2-5%

Examinations

Midterm: Thursday, October 24, 7:15 p.m. - 9:15 p.m.
Final: Tuesday, December 17, 12:25 p.m. - 2:25 p.m.
Students with last name starting with A - F in room 1111 Humanities
Students with last name starting with G - Z in room 3650 Humanities

Exam grading issues must be resolved with the instructor within one week after it is returned.

Homework Assignments

Homework assignments will include written problems and programming problems in Java. All problems are to be done individually unless stated otherwise. Accounts will be provided on the Computer Science Department's instructional Linux workstations located in rooms 1355, 1358, 1366 and 1368 CS. Assignment grading questions must be resolved with the TA or instructor within one week after it is returned.

Late Penalties

All assignments are due by 11:59 p.m. on the due date. One (1) day late (weekday or weekend), will result in 10% of the *total* points for the assignment deducted. So, for example, if an assignment is due on a Wednesday and it is handed in any time on Thursday, a 10% penalty will be deducted. Two (2) days late, 25% of the total points will be deducted; three (3) days late, 50% of the total points will be deducted. No homework can be turned in more than three (3) days late, regardless of whether or not any free late days are used. A total of three (3) free late days may be used throughout the semester without penalty. They will be applied to the first late days incurred on the assignments.

Academic Integrity

All examinations, programming assignments, and written homeworks must be done individually unless explicitly stated otherwise. Cheating and plagiarism will be dealt with in accordance with University procedures (see the UW Academic Misconduct Policies and Procedures). Hence, for example, code for programming assignments must not be developed in groups, nor should code be shared. You are encouraged to discuss with your peers, the TA or the instructor ideas, approaches and techniques broadly, but not at a level of detail where specific implementation issues are described by anyone. If you have any questions on this, ask the instructor before you act.

CS 540 - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence