CSCE 580 Spring 2003: Syllabus

UNDER CONSTRUCTION!!!! The textbooks are:

  • Russell, Stuart, and Peter Norvig. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (Second Edition). Prentice-Hall, 2003 (required text, referred to as [R]). Supplementary materials from the authors are available.
  • Bratko, Ivan. Prolog Programming for Artificial Intelligence (Third Edition). Addison-Wesley, 2001 (required text, referred to as [B]). Supplementary materials from the author (including programs from the textbook!) are available.

    • See the main web page of the course for Prolog program used in the lectures.

    The last day to withdraw without failure is Monday, February 24, 2003. The final exam for the course will take place on Wednesday, May 7, 2003, at 9am in the classroom (SWGR 2A31). This is the regularly scheduled time for courses taught from 1010 to 1100 on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. ( See the university exam schedule.)

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

    Week BeginsTopicLecture #1Lecture #2 Lecture #3Homework
    (1) January 13 Introduction (1) Ch.1 [R] (2) Ch.1 [R] (3) Ch.2 [R] HW1 (includes Ex 1.2 and 1.7 [R])
    (2) January 20Intelligent Agents Martin Luther King Day--No Class (4) Ch.2 [R] (5) Ch.2 [R] HW2
    (3) January 27Prolog 1 (6) Ch.1 [B] (7) Ch.1 [B] (8) Ch.1 [B] PR1 Solution
    (4) February 3Prolog 2 (9) Ch.2 [B] Ch.2 [B] (10) Ch.2 [B] (11) Ch.3 [B] Supplement PR2 Solution
    (5) February 10Prolog 3 (12) Ch.4 [B] Supplement (13) Ch.5 [B] Supplement (14) Ch.6 [B] PR3 Solution Two solutions to Ex. 3.10
    (6) February 17 Test and Prolog 4 (15) Test (16) Test Post Mortem and Ch.7[B] (17) Ch.7 [B] PR4
    (7) February 24 Prolog 5 (18) Ch.8 [B] Ch.8 [B] Supplement (19) Ch.8 [B] (20) Ch.9 [B] Ch.9 [B] TBD
    (8) March 3 Search (21) Ch.11 [B] and Ch.3 [R] Ch.11 [B] (22) Ch.11 [B] and Ch.3 [R] (22) Ch.11 [B] and Ch.3 [R] TBD
    (9) March 10 Spring Break No Class No Class No Class TBD
    (10) March 17 Heuristic Search (24) Ch.12 [B] and Ch.4 [R] Ch.12 [B] and Ch.2 [Shoham] (25) Ch.12 [B] and Ch.4 [R] (26) Ch.12 [B] and Ch.4 [R] PR5 Graduate Student Presentations
    (11) March 24 Constraint Satisfaction and Constraint Logic Programming (27) Ch.14 [B] and Ch.5 [R] (28) Ch.14 [B] and Ch.5 [R] (28) Ch.14 [B] and Ch.5 [R] TBD
    (12) March 31 Logical Agents and Propositional Logic (30) Ch.7 [R] (31) Ch.8 [R] (32) Ch.8 [R] TBD
    (13) April 7 First-Order Logic (33) Ch.8 and Ch.9 [R] (34) Ch.8 and Ch.9 [R] (35) Ch.8 and Ch.9 [R] TBD
    (14) April 14 Knowledge Representation (36) Ch.10 [R] (37) Ch.10 [R] (38) Ch.10 [R] TBD
    (15) April 21 Easter Holiday and Planning Easter Monday: No Classes (39) Ch.11 [R] (40) Ch.11 [R] TBD
    (16) April 28 Uncertainty (41) Ch.13 and Ch.14 [R] (42) Ch.13 and Ch.14 [R] No Class TBD