V University of Chicago: Computer Science: CMSC 25000: Winter 2005: Syllabus
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CMSC 25000 - Artificial Intelligence
Winter 2005
Syllabus


Date Topics Artificial
Intelligence
Additional
Readings
Assignment
Due in Class
Slides
January 4 What is AI? Chapter 1 Brooks
Turing, Sec. 1-5,7
    1 
January 6 Intelligent Agency Chapter 2         2
January 11 Basic & Heuristic Search Chapter 3     Scheme 3 
January 13 Informed & Optimal Search, Game Search Chapter 4, 6         4
January 18 Adversarial & Game Search
Constraint Satisfaction
Chapter 6, 5     Search 5
January 20 Constraint Satisfaction
Genetic Search
 Chapter 5; Chapter 4.3         6
January 25 Genetic Algorithms (cont'd) Chapter 4.3     Games and Constraints 7
January 27 Learning: Nearest Neighbor
Information Retrieval
Chapter 20.4         8
February 1 Searching by Structure
Learning: Perceptrons
Chapter 20.5 Hubs and Authorities GAs and Nearest Neighbor 9
February 3 Learning: Neural Networks Chapter 20.5        10
February 8 Midterm Exam                
February 10 Learning:
Decision Trees
Chapter 18         11
February 15 Bayes' Nets
Medical Reasoning
Chapter 13,14 Szolovits Decision Trees 12
February 17 Probabilistic Reasoning II
Spam Assassin
          13
February 22 Probabilistic Reasoning II
Hidden Markov Models
      Bayesian Inference 14
February 24 Probabilistic Language Processing Chapter 23         15
March 1 Probabilistic Language Processing Chapter 23     Speech Processing 16
March 3 Computer vision          17
March 8 Robotics
Roomba and Rovers
       18
March TBD Final Exam
TBD