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General Information | Resources | Weekly Schedule | Credits | Lecture Notes | Example Code | Read-Only Board |
I. General Information |
Dr. Yoonsuck Choe
Email: choe(a)tamu.edu
Office: HRBB 322B
Phone: 845-5466
Office hours: T/TR 10:30am-12:00pm. Other times: by appointment only.
Heejin Lim
Email: hjlim(a)cs.tamu.edu
Office: HRBB 322A
Phone: 845-5481
Office hours: M/TR 9:30--11:30 a.m. HRBB 322A
CPSC 311
T/TR 12:45pm-2:00pm, HRBB 113
To understand the problems in AI and to learn how to solve them:
- traditional methods in AI (search, pattern matching, logical inference, theorem proving, etc.).
- modern approaches in AI (learning, probabilistic approaches, etc.).
Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig, Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (AIMA, hereafter), 2nd Edition, Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 2003.
ISBN 0-13-790395-2
Book Homepage
* The first edition may be okay if that's what you have.
See the Weekly Schedule section for more details.
- Introduction : 1 week
- LISP : 1 week
- Search : 1.5 weeks
- Game playing, alpha-beta pruning: 0.75 week
- Propositional Logic, first-order logic, theorem proving: 3.5 weeks
- Uncertainty, probabilistic approaches: 1.5 weeks
- Learning: 2 weeks
- Special topics : 1 week
Grading will be on the absolute scale. The cutoff for an `A' will be 90% of total score, 80% for a `B', 70% for a `C', 60% for a `D', and below 60% for an 'F'.
The TAMU student rules (http://student-rules.tamu.edu/), Part I Rule 20 will be strictly enforced. Local Course Policy:
- All work should be done individually and on your own unless otherwise allowed by the instructor.
- Discussion is only allowed immediately before, during, or immediately after the class, or during the instructor's office hours.
- If you find solutions to homeworks or programming assignments on the web (or in a book, etc.), you may (or may not) use it. Please check with the instructor.
Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) Policy Statement: The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a federal anti-discrimination statute that provides comprehensive civil rights protection for persons with disabilities. Among other things, this legislation requires that all students with disabilities be guaranteed a learning environment that provides for reasonable accommodation of their disabilities. If you believe you have a disability requiring an accommodation, please contact the Department of Student Life: Services for Students with Disabilities in Room 126 of the Koldus Building, or call 845-1637.
II. Resources |
III. Weekly Schedule and Class Notes |
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1 | 8/31 | Introduction | Chapter 1 1.1 and 1.2 |
First day of class | slide01.pdf |
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1 | 9/2 | Introduction | Chapter 26 26.1 and 26.2 |
Unix basics (DIY); Last day to drop a course | slide01.pdf slide02.pdf |
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2 | 9/7 | Lisp | Lisp quick ref | slide02.pdf |
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2 | 9/9 | Lisp (Symbolic Differentiation) | Prog. Asmt. #1 announced | slide02.pdf |
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3 | 9/14 | No class today | Make-up class (9/21 8am) | To attend a symposium titled "Cortical function: A view from the Thalamus". | ||
3 | 9/16 | Uninformed Search (BFS,DFS,DLS,IDS) | Chapter 3.1-3.5 (3.6,3.7 optional) | slide03.pdf |
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4 | 9/21 | IDA*,Heuristic Search, Simulated Annealing, etc. |
Chapter 4 |
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slide03.pdf |
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4 | 9/23 | Game playing Min-Max, Alpha-Beta |
Chapter 5 (optional) and 6.1-6.8 (old 5) | HW Asmt. #1 Prog. Asmt. #2 announced |
slide03.pdf |
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5 | 9/28 | Game playing wrap up; Propositional Logic | Chapter 7.1, 7.3, 7.5, 7.6 (old 6) | slide03.pdf slide04.pdf |
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5 | 9/30 | Theorem proving | Chapter 9 (old 10) | HW Asmt. #1 due | slide04.pdf |
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6 | 10/5 | First-order logic | Chapter 8 (old 7) | HW Asmt. #2 announced | slide04.pdf |
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6 | 10/7 | Inference for FOL |
Chapter 9 | slide04.pdf |
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7 | 10/12 | Theorem proving for FOL |
Chapter 9 (old 10) | HW Asmt. #2 due; Midterm review | slide04.pdf |
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7 | 10/14 | Midterm | Exam | In class exam. | ||
8 | 10/19 | Uncertainty | Chapter 13 (old 14) | 10/18: Midsemester grades due. | slide05.pdf |
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8 | 10/21 | Guest lecture by Yingwei Yu | Visual illusions and the early visual system | To attend ICDL and Society for Neuroscience meeting | ||
9 | 10/26 | No class | Make-up to be scheduled | To attend ICDL and Society for Neuroscience meeting Prog. Asmt. #2 due (11:59pm, for 5pt extra credit) |
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9 | 10/28 | Uncertainty (continuted) | Chapter 13 (old 14) | Prog. Asmt. #2 (Monday 11/1, 11:59pm) | slide05.pdf |
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10 | 11/2 | Probabilistic reasoning |
Chapter 14 (old 15) | 11/5 (Q-drop) | slide05.pdf slide06.pdf |
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10 | 11/4 | Learning | Chapter 18 | Prog. Asmt. #3 announced | slide06.pdf |
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11 | 11/9 | " | slide06.pdf |
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11 | 11/11 | " | Paper Commentary Asmt. announced | slide06.pdf |
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12 | 11/16 | Learning (Nnets) | Chapter 20 (old 19) | slide06.pdf |
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12 | 11/18 | " | Course evaluation; Bonfire memorial: Class will be dismissed at 1:30pm |
slide06.pdf |
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13 | 11/23 | Learning (Nnets) | Chapter 20 (old 19) | Paper commentary due | slide06.pdf |
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13 | 11/25 | Thanksgiving | No class | |||
14 | 11/30 | Special topics | Action-based autonomous semantics | HW Asmt. #3 announced | slide07.pdf |
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14 | 12/2 | Special topics | Thalamus and analogy | slide08.pdf |
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15 | 12/7 | Natural language processing | Last day of class. Final exam review (TBA). HW Asmt #3 due 12/10 Friday 5pm; Prog. Asmt. #3 due 12/12 midnight. |
slide09.pdf |
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12/15 | Final Exam | 8:00-10:00am HRBB113 |
IV. Credits |
Many ideas and example codes were borrowed from Gordon Novak's AI Course and Risto Miikkulainen's AI Course at the University of Texas at Austin (Course number CS381K).