The textbook is:
A very good alternative text is: Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (Third Edition). Prentice-Hall, 2010 (referred to as [R] or, [AIMA] or, when distinguishing editions, [AIMA-1], [AIMA-2], or [AIMA-3]). Supplementary materials from the authors, including an errata list, are available. This text is not required.
The main (approximately 80% of the time) instructional delivery strategy for this course is lectures. Discussions based on graduate and honors student presentations, videos, quizzes or in-class exercises, and a possible invited talk will make up the remaining 20% of time. The first day of classes is Thursday, August 23, 2012. The last day to withdraw without failure is Thursday, October 11, 2012. The last day of classes is Thursday, December 6, 2012. The final exam for the course is Saturday, December 15, 2011, from 1230-1500 in the classroom (SWGR 2A24). This is the regularly scheduled time for courses taught from 1400 to 1515 on Tuesdays, and Thursdays. (See the university exam schedule.)
Please see elsewhere in the web pages for the course for additional administrative information.
| Week | Lecture Topics |
|---|---|
| 1: August 23 (Thursday only) | Introduction (Ch.1 [P]) |
| 2: August 28, 30 | Introduction; Intelligent Agents (Chs.1-2[P]) |
| 3: September 4, 6 | The State-Space Approach to Problem Solving and Blind Search (Ch.3 [P]) |
| 4: September 11, 13 | Heuristic Search (Ch.3 [P]) |
| 5: September 18, 20 | Heuristic Search (Ch.3 [P]) |
| 6: September 25, 27 | Constraint Satisfaction Problems (Ch.4 [P]) |
| 7: October 2, 4 | Constraint Satisfaction Problems and Midterm (Ch.4 [P]) |
| 8: October 9, 11 | The Propositional Calculus, Inference, and Abduction (Ch.5 [P]) |
| 9: October 16 | The Propositional Calculus, Inference, and Abduction (Ch.5 [P]); Fall Break |
| 10: October 23, 25 | Reasoning Under Uncertainty (Ch.6 [P]) |
| 11: October 30,November 1 | Individuals, Relations, and First-Order Logic (Ch.12 [P]) |
| 12: November 8 | Individuals, Relations, and First-Order Logic (Ch.12 [P]) |
| 13: November 13, 15 | Ontologies and Knowledge-Based Systems (Ch.13 [P]) |
| 14: November 20 | Supervised Learning (Ch.7 [P]) |
| 15: November 27, 29 | Planning (Ch.8 [P]) |
| 16: December 4, 6 | TBD |