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Topic
Read Before Class
notes
Homework
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Wed 8/29 Introduction
RN1
1 out
 
-- Mon 9/3 --
 
No class: Labor Day
2 Wed 9/5 Agents
RN2
video: Dennet on AI
2a Wed 5:30-6:30 9/5 Python 1

another Python tutorial
videos: Youtube Python tutorials

3 Mon 9/10 Problem solving as search
RN3

hw1 due
hw2 out

Missionaries and cannibals
Graph traversal algorithms
prolog search
3a Mon 5:30-6:30 9/10 Python 2
xkcd on Python
video: Python for programmers
4 Wed 9/12 Uninformed and Informed search
RN4
8 puzzle vizualization
PEP8: Python style guide
4a Wed 5:30-6:30 9/12 Python 3
xkcd on Python
video: Python for programmers
5 Mon 9/17 Informed search
RN4 

Search demo
A* algorithm
8 puzzle vizualization

6 Wed 9/19 Informed Search
RN4

hw2 due

p8.py
Search demo
Simulated annealing
8 Queens problem
Genetic algorithm

7 Mon 9/24 Constraints
RN5
hw3 out

CCC site
8 queens CSP
csp.py
CSP demo
SLS CSP demo

8 Wed 9/26 Constraints,
Search and games
RN5
RN6
python-constraints
examples
more examples
9 Mon 10/1 Search and games
RN6

Checkers solved
U. Alberta Games Group

10 Wed 10/3 Search and games
Game theory
RN 6
RN17.6
hw3 due
Video Games and AI
game theory
PD demo, PD lessona
Prisoner's Dilema
11 Mon 10/8 Game theory,
Logic intro for KR
RN17.6
RN7
hw4 out
Chicken
neats vs scruffies
Knowledge Base
Wason selection task
12 Wed 10/10 Logic intro for KR
RN7
 
nim
It, New Yorker, 1952
Hunt the Wumpus
13 Mon 10/15 Propositional logic
RN7

 
14 Wed 10/17 FOL
RN8

10

hw4 due
 
15 Mon 10/22 MIDTERM EXAM
RN1-7, 17.6
 
16 Wed 10/24 Reasoning
RN7
   
17 Mon 10/29 No Class
UMBC closed due to Hurricane Sandy
18 Wed 10/31 Reasoning
RN8
 
non-monotonic logic
19 Mon 11/5 Reasoning, Rule-based system
RN9

 


20 Wed 11/7 Reasoning, Knowledge Representation
RN9, RN12
5 out
 
21 Mon 11/12 Planning
RN10
  guest lecture by Prof. desJardin
22 Wed 11/14 Planning
RN11


guest lecture by Prof. Oates
24 Mon 11/19 Uncertainty
RN13

5 due
6 out


25 Wed 11/21 Bayesian reasoning
RN14
 
26 Mon 11/26 BBNs
RN18 RN19
netica
samiam
27 Wed 11/28 Learning
RN20
learning to walk
Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data
28 Mon 12/3 Learning
RN20

 
29 Wed 12/5 Learning
RN21
 
30 Mon 12/10 agents
RN 21
anchovies, stampede, boids, CBN applets
*
Mon
12/17 FINAL
see
above
see above
  3:30-5:30pm in class