syllabus

subject to change!

class #dateTOPICREADINGS
1mon jan 30 Course Overview
2wed feb 1 AI and Agents
3mon feb 6 Simple Agents
4wed feb 8 Problem-solving agents
mon feb 13 NO CLASSES (LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY)
5wed feb 15 Heuristic search (1)
mon feb 20 NO CLASSES (PRESIDENT'S DAY)
6TUE FEB 21 CUNY MONDAY!!
Introduction to Robotics
7wed feb 22 LAB #1
8mon feb 27 Heuristic search (2)
9wed mar 1 LAB #2
10mon mar 6 Game Playing (adversarial search)
11wed mar 8 Neural Networks
12mon mar 13 Learning in state space
13wed mar 15 Evolutionary computation
14mon mar 20 Knowledge representation
15wed mar 22 LAB DAY
Midterm Review
fri mar 24
  • hw #2 due
16mon mar 27 LAB DAY
17wed mar 29 MIDTERM EXAM
fri mar 31
  • project #1 due
18mon apr 3 Project Demonstrations
Propositional logic
19wed apr 5 Predicate logic
20mon apr 10 Logic-based Agents
wed apr 12 NO CLASSES -- SPRING BREAK
mon apr 17 NO CLASSES -- SPRING BREAK
wed apr 19 NO CLASSES -- SPRING BREAK
21mon apr 24 Planning
22wed apr 26 Partial-order planning
Decision theoretic planning
23mon may 1 Dealing with Uncertainty
24wed may 3 Probabilistic models
25mon may 8 LAB #3 -- in 5301 Ingersoll
26wed may 10 LAB #4 -- in 5301 Ingersoll
27mon may 15 Artificial Life
28wed may 17
(last class)
  • hw#4 demonstrations
  • project #2 demonstrations
  • review for final
  • project #2 due
mon may 22 FINAL EXAM
10.30am-12.30pm