CSCE 580 Fall 2008: Syllabus

The textbook is:

  • Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (Second Edition). Prentice-Hall, 2003 (required text, referred to as [R] or [AIMA]) Supplementary materials from the authors, including an errata list, are available.
  • By special arrangement, we will also use drafts of chapters of the forthcoming second edition of: David Poole, Alan Mackworth, and Randy Goebel. Computational Intelligence: A Logical Approach. Oxford University Press, 1998 (referred to as [P]).

    • The first day of classes is Friday, August 22, 2008. The last day to withdraw without failure is Thursday, October 2, 2008. The last day of classes is Friday, December 5, 2008. The final exam for the course is Monday, December 12, 2008, at 1400 in the classroom (SWGR 2A21). This is the regularly scheduled time for courses taught from 1325 to 1415 on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. ( See the university exam schedule.)

    Please see elsewhere in the web pages for the course for additional administrative information.

    WeekLecture Topics
    1: August 22Introduction (Ch.1 [R]; Ch.1 [P])
    2: August 25, 27, 29Introduction; Intelligent Agents (Ch.2 [R]) Chs.1-2[P])
    3: September 3, 5The State-Space Approach to Problem Solving and Blind Search (Ch.3 [R]; Ch.3 [P])
    4: September 8, 10, 12Graduate Student Presentation 1; Heuristic Search (Ch.4 [R]; Ch.3 [P])
    5: September 15, 17, 19Heuristic Search (Ch.4 [R]; Ch.3 [P]); Graduate Student Presentations 2 and 3
    6: September 22, 24, 26 Midterm 1; Constraint Satisfaction Problems (Ch.5 [R]; Ch.4 [P])
    7: September 29; October 1, 3Adversarial Search (Ch.6 [R]; Ch.10 [P])
    8: October 6, 8, 10 Logical Agents, Propositions, and Inference (Ch.7 [R]; Ch.5 [P]) and Fall Break
    9: October 13, 15, 17 Logical Agents, Propositions, and Inference (Ch. 7[R]; Ch.5 [P]); Graduate Student Presentation 4
    10: October 20, 22, 24 First-Order Logic (Ch.8 [R]; Ch.12 [P]); Graduate Student Presentation 5
    11: October 27, 29, 31 Inference in First-Order Logic (Ch.9 [R]; Ch.12 [P]); Graduate Student Presentation 6
    12: November 3, 5, 7 Knowledge Representation (Ch.10 [R]; Ch.12 [P]); Graduate Student Presentations 7 and 8
    13: November 10, 12, 14 Planning (Ch.11 [R])
    14: November 17, 19, 21 Logic Programming (Notes)
    15: November 24 Learning from Observations (Ch.18 [R])
    16: December 1, 3, 5 Open