Computer Science 151: Arificial Intelligence (Spring 2009)

Tue/Thu 1:15-2:30pm, Jacobs B134
Christine's office hours (Olin 1241): M10:30-11:30, Tu 3:30-4:30
Tutoring hours (Beckman B102 lab): M 7-9pm, Su 3-5pm
cs151help@cs.hmc.edu
Schedule * Syllabus * Assignments * Written Problems *  Getting Help * Links
Date Topic Reading Due (Optional)
Written Problems
1/20 Introduction to AI AIMA 1, 2 WP 1
1/22 Problem solving/simple search AIMA 3
1/27 Informed search AIMA 4.1-4.2 A1
1/29 Game-playing I AIMA 6.1-6.3 WP 2
2/3 Game-playing II AIMA 6.4-6.6
2/5 Local search AIMA 4.3 A2 (due Sun, 2/8) WP 3
2/10 Constraint Satisfaction AIMA 5
2/12 Mancala Tournament and Fun with Search/CS
2/17 Uncertainty/Probability + Intro to Bayes Nets AIMA 13, 14.1-14.2 A3a WP 4
2/19 Bayes Nets (including applications) Lumiere Paper
2/24 Exact Inference in Bayes Nets AIMA 14.4 A3
2/26 Intro to (Statistical) Machine Learning AIMA 18.1-18.2, 20.1 WP 5
3/3 Learning in Bayes Nets
 AIMA 20.2
3/5 QUIZ I
3/10 EM for Bayes Nets  AIMA 20.3
3/12 More on EM, Writing Practice
A4
SPRING BREAK
3/24 Hidden Markov Models AIMA 15.1-15.3 WP 6
3/26 Inference in HMMs
 AIMA 15.5
3/31 Speech Recognition AIMA 15.6 WP 7
4/2 Decision Tree Learning AIMA 18.3-18.4 P-proposal
4/7 Information Retrieval

4/9 Utility Theory and Decision Networks AIMA 16 A5 WP 8
4/14 Making Complex Decisions AIMA 17.1-17.5
4/16 Game Theory and Mechanism Design AIMA 17.6-17.7
4/21 QUIZ II
4/23 Ethical and Philosophical Issues in AI
 AIMA 26.3
4/28 Wrap up AIMA 26.1-26.2 P-draft
4/30 Paper presentations P-presentation
5/3
P-reviews
TBA P-final (seniors)
5/14
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