Computer Science 151: Arificial Intelligence (Spring 2008)

Mon/Wed, 11am-12:15pm, Jacobs B134
Christine's office hours (Olin 1241): Tu4-5pm, W3:30-4:30pm * Tutoring hours (Jacobs B102 lab): M&Tu9-10pm
cs151help@cs.hmc.edu

Schedule * Syllabus * Assignments * Written Problems * Links

Note that all lectures can be found in the resouces directory in the Sakai site.*
Date Topic Reading Due
1/22 Introduction to AI AIMA 1, 2
1/28 Problem solving/simple search AIMA 3
1/30 Informed search AIMA 4.1-4.2 A1
2/4 Game-playing I AIMA 6.1-6.3
2/6 Game-playing II AIMA 6.4-6.6
2/11 Local search AIMA 4.3
2/13 Constraint Satisfaction AIMA 5
2/18 CS 2, Uncertainty/Probability AIMA 13
2/20 Probability and Bayes Nets AIMA 14.1-14.2 A2
2/25 Bayes Nets and Inference
AIMA 14.4
2/27 Exact Inference in BNs II
A3a
3/3 Approximate Inference in BNs AIMA 14.5-14.6
3/5 Mancala tournament and Bayes net applications

A3
3/10 Hidden Markov Models AIMA 15.1-15.3
3/12 QUIZ I
SPRING BREAK
3/24 Inference in HMMs AIMA 15.5
3/26 More Inference in HMMs, Speech Recognition AIMA 15.6
3/31 SR/Information Retrieval
4/2 Intro to Machine Learning AIMA 18 A4
4/7 ML in HMMs and BNs AIMA 20.1-20.2
4/9 Expectation Maximization AIMA 20.3 P-proposal (Friday)
4/14 Utility Theory and Decision Networks AIMA 16 
4/16 Complex Decisions AIMA 17.1-17.5
4/21 QUIZ II
4/23 Game Theory AIMA 17.6-17.7
4/28 Philosophical and Ethical Issues in AI AIMA 26.1-26.4 P-draft
4/30 Paper presentations P-presentation
5/4
P-reviews
TBA Final Exam slot (no exam) P-final
* If you are not a member of the Claremont College community and would like copies of my slides, please send me an email at alvarado@cs.hmc.edu