RIT Department of Computer Science |
Disclaimer: We may get ahead of (or fall behind) this schedule, I will try to keep this up to date but regardless, exam/homework topics will follow the actual lecture topic pace.
Week | Topics | Homework | Reading | Special Events and Due Dates | Slides & Lecture Notes |
1 (8/27+29+31) | Introduction, history of AI, agents | Russell & Norvig (R&N) Ch. 1, 2 | Slides (1), Slides (2), Slides (3); Turing's paper | ||
2 (9/5+7) | Uninformed search | R&N Ch.3.1-3.4 | No class on Monday (Labor Day). | Slides (1), Slides (2) | |
3 (9/10+12+14) | Heuristic / local search (intro to sparse coding) | HW 1 due Monday 9/17 (assigned 9/9) | R&N 3.5-3.6, 4.1 | Slides (1), Slides (2), Slides (3) | |
4 (9/17+19+21) | Game/adversarial search, nondeterministic search | R&N 4.1, 5.1-5.2 | Slides(1), Slides (2), Slides (3) | ||
5 (9/24+26+28) | Statistical learning practice/theory, probability review | HW 2 due Monday 10/1 (assigned 9/23) | HW Latex Template | Slides(1), Slides(2) | |
6 (10/1+3+5) | Probability, information theory, (linear) regression | Lab 1 assigned, due Monday 10/15 | R&N 13.1-13.5, 18.4-18.5 | Slides(1), Review, Slides(3) | |
7 (10/11+13) | Linear/logistic/multinoulli regression, perceptron/svm | Lab 1 due Monday, 10/15 | R&N 18.6 | No class Monday | Slides(1), Slides(2) |
8 (10/15+17+19) | Decision trees, ensembling (bagging/boosting) | R&N 18.1-18.3/4, 18.10 | Slides(1), Slides(2), Slides(3) | ||
9 (10/22+24+26) | Ensembling (boosting), Artificial neural networks | HW3 (p1) due Sunday 10/28 (assigned 10/23) | R&N 18.7 | Slides(1), Slides(2), Notes (board) | |
10 (10/29+31+11/2) | Artificial neural networks (tricks of the trade) | HW3 (p2) due Sunday 11/11 (assigned 11/4) | Midterm Monday, 10/29 | HW3 (p2) Sample Data | Slides(1), Slides(2) |
11 (11/5+7+9) | Artificial neural networks, recurrent networks (& language) | Research paper selection due Wed 11/14 | Notes (board), Slides(1), Slides(2) | ||
12 (11/12+14+16) | Natural Language Processing (NLP), NNLMS, Logic | Lab 2 assigned, due (12/3) | Notes (board), Slides(1), Slides(2) | ||
13 (11/19) | Propositional logic | R&N 7.4-7.5 | No class Wednesday or Friday | Slides(1) | |
14 (11/26+28+30) | Propositional logic, expert systems | R&N ch. 7 | Notes (board), Slides(1), Slides(2) | ||
15 (12/3+5+7) | Logic wrapup (Monday), Presentations | Lab 2 due Wednesday 12/3, HW4 due 12/13 | Report draft due 12/5 (and slides) | Slides (1) | |
16 (12/10) | Presentations (Monday), Finals | Final Exam Monday, 12/17 | Research report due Monday 12/17 | Review | |