| Week | Date | Topic/Read Before Class | Notes | Assignment |
| 1 | M, 08/29 | Introduction of class topics and structure
Ch. 01. Introduction Ch. 02. Intelligent Agents |
ch-00-01-02.pdf |
Write student information
Submit paper to be presented Submit project proposal |
| Tu, 08/30 | Make-up Tuesday class due to conference cancellations
time: 6:05pm-6:55pm location: Fisher 328 Ch. 3, Sections 1 -- 4: Search, Uninformed Search -- review |
ch-03-a.pdf
notes |
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| W, 08/31 | Ch. 3, Sections 1 -- 4: Search, Uninformed Search -- review (cont'd) | notes | ||
| F, 09/02 | Ch. 3, Sections 1 -- 4: Search, Uninformed Search -- review (cont'd) | notes | ||
| 2 | M, 09/05 | No class: Labor Day | ||
| Tu, 09/06 |
Make-up Tuesday class due to conference cancellations
time: 6:05pm-6:55pm location: Fisher 328 Ch. 3, Sections 5 -- 6: Informed (Heuristic) Search -- review |
ch-03-b.pdf | ||
| W, 09/07 | Ch. 3, Sections 5 -- 6: Advanced topics in heuristic search |
ch-03-c.pdf
notes |
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| F, 09/09 | Ch. 3, Sections 5 -- 6: Advanced topics in heuristic search (cont'd) | Mini homework 1 | ||
| 3 | M, 09/12 |
Ch. 3, Sections 5 -- 6: Advanced topics in heuristic search (cont'd)
Ch. 6 - Constraint Satisfaction Problems |
ch-06-a.pdf | |
| W, 09/14 | Ch. 6 - Constraint Satisfaction Problems (cont'd) | |||
| F, 09/16 | Ch. 6 - Constraint Satisfaction Problems (cont'd) | notes | ||
| 4 | M, 09/19 |
Ch. 6 - Constraint Satisfaction Problems (cont'd)
Addition to Ch. 6 - Temporal Constraint Satisfaction Problems Interval Algebra (IA) |
ch-06-b.pdf
notes |
Mini assigment due 9/21
Interval algebra |
| W, 09/21 |
Addition to Ch. 6 - Temporal Constraint Satisfaction Problems
Interval Algebra (IA) (cont'd) |
notes | ||
| F, 09/23 |
Addition to Ch. 6 - Temporal Constraint Satisfaction Problems
Point Algebra (IA) (cont'd) Quantitative Networks |
ch-06-b.pdf
(STN example) |
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| 5 | M, 09/26 | IAAI paper presentations | ||
| T, 09/27 | (Reminder: Michigan Tech Fall Career Fair is on September 27th this year) | |||
| W, 09/28 | IAAI paper presentations | |||
| F, 09/30 | IAAI paper presentations | |||
| 6 | M, 10/03 |
IAAI paper presentation
Homework 1,2,3 review Review for exam 1 |
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| W, 10/05 | Exam 1
Time: 6:00pm - 7:30 pm Location: Fisher 230 |
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| F, 10/07 | Ch. 13 - Quantifying Uncertainty | ch-13.pdf | ||
| 7 | M, 10/10 | |||
| W, 10/12 | ||||
| F, 10/14 | ||||
| 8 | M, 10/17 |
Ch. 13 - Quantifying Uncertainty
The wumpus world |
calculations | |
| W, 10/19 | No class -- Conference travel | |||
| F, 10/21 | No class -- Conference travel | |||
| 9 | M, 10/24 | |||
| W, 10/26 | Ch. 14 - Probabilistic Reasoning
Section 14.1 Representing Knowledge in an Uncertain Domain Section 14.2 The Semantics of Bayesian Networks Section 14.3 Efficient Representation of Conditional Distributions |
Ch. 14
Sections 14.1 - 14.3 ch14-a.pdf |
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| F, 10/28 | Ch. 14 - Probabilistic Reasoning
Section 14.4 Exact Inference in Bayesian Networks Section 14.5 Approximate Inference in Bayesian Networks |
Ch. 14
Sections 14.4 - 14.5 ch14-b.pdf |
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| 10 | M, 10/31 | Ch. 14 - Probabilistic Reasoning
Section 14.5 Approximate Inference in Bayesian Networks Direct sampling Rejection sampling |
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| W, 11/02 | Project progress presentations | |||
| F, 11/04 | Ch. 14 - Probabilistic Reasoning
Section 14.5 Approximate Inference in Bayesian Networks Likelihood weighting Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation |
calculations | ||
| 11 | M, 11/07 | Ch. 14 - Probabilistic Reasoning
Section 14.5 Approximate Inference in Bayesian Networks Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation |
notes | Homework 5 assigned |
| W, 11/09 | Ch. 16 - Making Simple Decisions | ch-16.pdf | ||
| F, 11/11 | ||||
| 12 | M, 11/14 | Homework 5 due | ||
| W, 11/15 | Exam 2
Time: 6:00pm - 7:30 pm Location: Fisher 230 |
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| F, 11/18 | No class -- evening exam | |||
| Break | M, 11/21 | Thanksgiving recess | ||
| W, 11/23 | Thanksgiving recess | |||
| F, 11/25 | Thanksgiving recess | |||
| 13 | M, 11/28 | Paper presentations | ||
| W, 11/30 | Paper presentations | |||
| F, 12/02 | Paper presentations | |||
| 14 | M, 12/05 | Project demos | ||
| W, 12/07 | Project demos | |||
| F, 12/09 | Project demos |