CS 540 - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Section 1 Spring 2012

CS 540 Syllabus

Week	Starting	Topics	Readings
1	1/23	Introduction, intelligent agents, captchas, problem solving as search	Chapters 1 and 2
2	1/30	Uninformed search	3.1 - 3.4
3	2/6	Informed (heuristic) search	3.5, 3.6
4	2/13	Local search: Hill-climbing, simulated annealing, genetic algorithms	4.1
5	2/20	Game playing, constraint satisfaction	5.1 - 5.3, 6.1 - 6.3
6	2/27	Machine learning: Neural networks, support vector machines	18.1, 18.2, 18.6.3, 18.6.4, 18.7, 18.9, SVM paper
7	3/5	Machine learning: Decision trees	18.3 - 18.4
8	3/12	Midterm Exam, Probabilistic reasoning: Uncertainty	13
9	3/19	Probabilistic reasoning: Bayesian networks	14.1, 14.2, 14.4, Bayes net paper
10	3/26	Bayesian networks	15.1 - 15.3
	4/2	SPRING BREAK
11	4/9	Speech recognition	23.5, HMM tutorial
12	5/7	Computer vision	Face recognition paper
13	4/23	Logical reasoning: Propositional logic	7.1, 7.3 - 7.5
14	4/30	Logical reasoning: First-order logic	8.1 - 8.3
15	5/7	Logical reasoning