Computer Science 151: Arificial Intelligence (Spring 2011)

Mon/Wed 4:15-5:30pm, Beckman B-143
Juan's office hours (Olin 1240): Mon/Wed 5:30-7pm
Tutoring hours (Beckman Hot Air lab): Mon/Wed 7-9pm
casse@cs.hmc.edu, rmuller@cs.hmc.edu

Schedule * Syllabus * Assignments * Written ProblemsGetting HelpLinks

Date Topic Reading Due (Optional)
Written Problems
1/19 Introduction to AI AIMA 1, 2 WP 1
1/24 Problem solving/simple search AIMA 3.1-3.4
1/26 Informed search AIMA 3.5-3.6 A1
1/31 Game-playing I AIMA 5.1-5.3 WP 2
2/2 Game-playing II AIMA 5.4-5.5
2/7 Local search AIMA 4.1 A2 WP 3
2/9 Guest Speaker
2/14 Uncertainty / Probability AIMA 13.1-13.5 A3a WP 4
2/16 Bayes Nets AIMA 14.1-14.2
2/21 Exact Inference in Bayes Nets AIMA 14.4
2/23 Intro to (Statistical) Machine Learning AIMA 18.1-18.2, 20.1 A3 WP 5
2/28 Learning in Bayes Nets
AIMA 20.2

3/2 QUIZ I
3/7 EM for Bayes Nets  AIMA 20.3
3/9 Intro to Dynamic Models AIMA 15.1-15.2
A4
SPRING BREAK
3/21 Guest Speaker WP 6
3/23 Hidden Markov Models AIMA 15.2, 15.3
3/28 Inference in HMMs
AIMA 15.3
3/30 Speech Recognition AIMA 23.5
4/4 Decision Tree Learning AIMA 18.3, 18.10 A5
4/6 Constraint Satisfaction
AIMA 6
P-proposal
4/11 Utility Theory and Decision Networks AIMA 16 WP 8
4/13 Making Complex Decisions AIMA 17.1-17.4
4/18 Game Theory and Mechanism Design AIMA 17.5-17.6
4/20 QUIZ II
4/25 Ethical and Philosophical Issues in AI
AIMA 26.3
4/27 Wrap up AIMA 26.1-26.2 P-draft
5/2 No class
5/4 Paper presentations P-presentation
5/6
P-reviews
5/9 P-final (seniors)
5/13
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 casse@cs.hmc.edu