RIT Department of Computer Science

Syllabus ----- Schedule

CSCI-630 Foundations of Intelligent Systems: Schedule

Fall Semester 2018 (2181)


RIT Academic Calendar

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


updated: August 29, 2018