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CSCI 4800 A - Artificial Intelligence

Class Calendar:

Jan 9 Course Intro, videos in file rep. folder
HW: Read Chapter 1
Jan 11 Highlight & discuss Chapter 1
HW: questions 1.1, 1.5, Read Ch. 2
Jan 16 Finish Chap. 1
Chapter 2: Intelligent Agents - PPT
HW: 1.10, 2.5, 2.6
News: Asimo - Background info - Video
Jan 18 Finish Chap. 2
[submit homework 1.10/2.5/2.6 in Word format by email if out due to weather]
HW: Read Ch. 3
Jan 23 Chapter 3: Solving by Searching - PPT
HW: 3.1, 3.7a&b, 3.8a&b,(submit by email)
Jan 25 Email homework for Ch. 3 due by noon
HW: Read Ch. 4
Jan 30 Ch. 3 highlights
Chapter 4 - PPT - Online 8-puzzle
HW: 4.1, 4.14
Feb 1 Snow Day - finish reading chap. 4 (sec. 1-3)
Feb 6 Ch. 3 HW Solutions
Finish Chap. 4
HW: write up 4.1, Read Ch. 5
Feb 8 Ch. 4 HW Due
Chapter 5 - PPT - Online CSP Solver
HW: 5.1, 5.2
Feb 13 Finish Chap. 5 (1-3) - Map coloring - Zebra problem - other cool CSPs: magic squares, cryptarithmetic
HW: 5.6, Read Chap 6 (sec. 1-4)
Feb 15 Chapter 6 - PPT 
HW: 6.3 a, b
Feb 20 Solutions to CSP problems in Ilog Solver
Finish Chap 6 - Solution to 6.3 a,b
HW: Midterm Review - be fluent in Ch 1-6.2 and HW 1.5, 2.5, 2.6, 3.7, 3.8, 4.14, 5.2, 5.6, 6.3
Feb 22 Midterm Exam
HW: Read 7.1-7.2 - Wumpus world
Feb 27 Chapter 7 - PPT
Programming Project 1 Assigned
Mar 1 Last day to withdraw
TriBot Fetch Video on YouTube
Mindstorm NXT programming Lab
Mar 6 Ch. 7 cont - Logic
Guest lecturer: Dr. Troy Catterson, Philosophy
HW: 7.1, 7.2 - Read rest of Ch. 7
Mar 8 Mindstorm NXT configuration & programming Lab
Mar 13 Spring break - no classes
Mar 15
Mar 20 Chapter 8 - PPT
Mar 22 NXT Lab
Optimizing NXT-G Code (PDF)
Mar 27 Prog. Project 1 Due
In-class demos of NXT programs
Mar 29 In-class demos cont (if needed)
Neural Net intro (p. 752: 20.7)
Perceptrons vs. multi-layer nets (the XOR problem)
Brief student overview
Apr 3 Chapter 24 - Image Processing & Perception
Apr 5 Computer Vision
Programming Project 2 Assigned:
Neural Networks & Robotics
Apr 10 Chapter 25 - Robotics
Apr 12 Robotics cont.
Apr 17 Robotics Lab
Apr 19 Chapter 26 - Philosophy of AI
Apr 24 Programming Project Presentations

Saturday, April 28, 10:30-12:30 - FINAL EXAM

 

 

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