Computer Sciences Dept.

CS 540 - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

Section 1
Spring 2013


CS 540 Syllabus

WeekStartingTopicsReadings
11/23Introduction, intelligent agents, captchas, problem solving as searchChapters 1 and 2
21/28Uninformed search3.1 - 3.4
32/4Informed (heuristic) search3.5, 3.6
42/11Local search: Hill-climbing, simulated annealing, genetic algorithms4.1
52/18Game playing, constraint satisfaction5.1 - 5.3, 6.1 - 6.3
62/25Machine learning: Neural networks, support vector machinesIntro to machine learning, 18.1, 18.2, 18.6.3, 18.6.4, 18.7, 18.9, SVM paper
73/4Machine learning: Decision trees18.3 - 18.4
83/11Midterm Exam, Probabilistic reasoning: Uncertainty13
93/18Probabilistic reasoning: Bayesian networks14.1, 14.2, 14.4, Bayes net paper
3/25SPRING BREAK
104/1Bayesian networks
114/8Speech recognition15.1 - 15.3, 23.5, HMM tutorial
124/15Computer vision 18.10
134/22Logical reasoning: Propositional logic7.1, 7.3 - 7.5
144/29Logical reasoning: First-order logic8.1 - 8.3
155/6Logical reasoning

 
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