CSE 4308/5360 - Fall 2011 - Schedule

Lecture         Date         Chapters,
2nd Edition
Chapters,
3rd Edition
Slides Topic
1 Thu 08/25 1, 3 1, 3.1-3.4 Introduction ((c)S. Russel)
Uninformed Search ((c)S. Russel)
Course Details and Overview
Solving Problems by Search
2 Tue 08/30 4 3.5-3.6   Informed Search ((c)S. Russel, Cook)  
Implementation Notes
Informed Search
3 Thu 09/01 2 2 Agents ((c)S. Russel) Agents
4 Tue 09/06 6 5 Game Playing ((c)S. Russel)
Alpha-Beta Example
Game Playing
5 Thu 09/08 7 7 Logic and Inference ((c)S. Russel) Non-Deterministic Games
Knowledge and Logic Reasoning
6 Tue 09/13 7 7   Inference by Enumeration
7 Thu 09/15 7 7   Inference, continued
8 Tue 09/20 7 7   Midterm preparation, and more on inference
9 Thu 09/22 First Midterm
10 Tue 09/27 7 7   Midterm recap - Inference, continued
11 Thu 09/29 8 8 First Order Logic ((c)S. Russel) Resolution, Intro to First Order Logic
12 Tue 10/04 9 9 First Order Inference ((c)S. Russel) Inference in First Order Logic
13 Thu 10/06 11 10 Planning ((c)S. Russel) Planning
14 Tue 10/11 11 10 Notes on planning Planning, continued
15 Thu 10/13 12 11 Conditional Planning ((c)S. Russel) Conditional Planning and Replanning
16 Tue 10/18 13 13 Probability ((c)S. Russel) Probability
17 Thu 10/20 13 13   Joint Probability Distributions
18 Tue 10/25 14.1-14.4 14.1-14.4 Bayesian Networks ((c)S. Russel) Midterm preparation, Bayesian networks
19 Thu 10/27 Second Midterm
20 Tue 10/29 14.1-14.4 14.1-14.4 Bayesian Networks ((c)S. Russel) Midterm recap, Bayesian networks continued
21 Thu 11/03 18.1-18.3 18.1-18.3 Learning ((c)S. Russel) Learning Methods, Decision Trees
22 Tue 11/08       Guest lecture, Professor Gian Luca Mariottini
23 Thu 11/10 18.1-18.3 18.1-18.3 Notes on Information Gain Decision Trees, continued
24 Tue 11/15 20.1 20.1 MAP-ML ((c)S. Russel) MAP estimation, ML estimation
Neural Networks
25 Thu 11/17 20.1, 20.5 20.1, 18.7 Notes on MAP and ML More on MAP, ML
26 Tue 11/22 20.5 18.7 Neural Networks ((c)S. Russel) Neural Networks
27 Tue 11/29       Overview of Material for Midterm 3
28 Thu 12/01 Third Midterm
29 Tue 12/06       Midterm Recap
30 Thu 12/08       Course Recap

This schedule is tentative and subject to change. If changes are necessary they will be announced in class and posted in the schedule on the course page.