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CMSC 25000 - Artificial Intelligence
Winter 2002
Syllabus


Date Topics Artificial
Intelligence
Additional
Readings
Assignment
Due in Class
Slides
January 3 What is AI?       1
January 8 Reasoning by Rule:
Expert Systems
Pages 53-60;117-139   Scheme
2
January 10 Reasoning by Rule II       3
January 15 Basic & Heuristic Search Chapter 4   Rule-Chaining:
Bagger, Etc.
4
January 17 Optimal Search Chapter 5     5
January 22 Constraint       6
January 24 Constraint II pp. 249-272   Search: 7
January 29 Game Search Chapter 6     8
January 31 Learning:
Nearest Neighbor
Chapter 19   Constraint Propagation 9
February 5 Midterm Exam        
February 7 Learning:
Identification Trees
Chapter 21     11
February 12 Speaker: Jont B. Allen
Speech, Information, &
Recognition
BSLC #205: 12:00
       
February 14 Learning:
Perceptrons
Chapter 23     12
February 19 Learning:
Neural Networks
Chapter 22   Learning: NN & ID3 13
February 21 Learning by Simulating Evolution Chapter 25     14
February 26 Learning by Similarity and Difference
Bayesian Inference
Chapter 16
Solovits 95
  Learning: NN 15
February 28 Language & Speech       16
March 5 Language & Speech       17
March 7 No lecture     Learning: GA's and Bayes' Nets 17
March 14 Final Exam
10:30-12:30