Click on the links below to access the handouts for that day.
| Jan 18 | Carbonell | Introduction to AI and Problem Solving, Administrivia |
| Jan 20 | Carbonell | Basic search methods: DFS, BFS, HC, HS, ... |
| Jan 25 | Carbonell | Advanced search: Goal Reduction, MEA, A* ... Homework 1 handed out |
| Jan 27 | Cohn | Game-tree Search, A-B pruning, Game Theory |
| Feb 1 | Cohn | Constraint Satisfaction & Scheduling Homework 1 Addendum Additional handouts: Sadeh and Fox background reading, Article about Sanjiv Sidhu (please see Jennifer McGuiggan in NSH 4517 for copies) |
| Feb 3 | Carbonell | Propositional and Predicate Logic |
| Feb 8 | Carbonell | Unification and Resolution in Logic |
| Feb 10 | Carbonell | Representing Knowledge Beyond first-order Logics and Taxonomy diagram Homework 1 due Homework 2 handed out |
| Feb 15 | Carbonell | Natural Language Processing |
| Feb 17 | Carbonell | Knowledge-Engineering and Rule-Based Systems |
| Feb 22 | Cohn | Probabilistic Reasoning |
| Feb 24 | Cohn | Bayes Networks Homework 2 due |
| Feb 29 | Cohn | Bayes Nets & Midterm Review |
| Mar 2 | **Midterm Exam** Solution |
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| Mar 7 | Carbonell | Information Retrieval: Vector Space Models Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 |
| Mar 9 | Cohn | Naive Bayes and Introduction to Machine Learning |
| Mar 14 | Cohn | Decision Trees Homework 3 handed out |
| Mar 16 | Cohn | Model Selection |
| Mar 21 | Carbonell | Other Supervised Learning and Applications |
| Mar 23 | Cohn | Neural Networks Homework 3 optional early hand in (for 10% extra credit) on March 24, 2000 at 4:30 in NSH 4517 Mini-project (homework 4) launched |
| Mar 28 | **Spring break** | |
| Mar 30 | **Spring break** | |
| Apr 4 | Carbonell | Clustering and Unsupervised Learning Homework 3 due for real |
| Apr 6 | Liam Pedersen | Robotics Antarctic Meteorite Search |
| Apr 11 | Cohn | Optimization: Multivar HC, Simulated Annealing,... |
| Apr 13 | Cohn | MDPs and Reinforcement Learning |
| Apr 18 | Cohn | MDPs and Reinforcement Learning |
| Apr 20 | Schneider | Enrichment lecture: Optimization in Industry |
| Apr 25 | No Lecture | |
| Apr 27 | Greg Aist | Enrichment lecture: Speech Understanding Mini-project due |
| May 2 | Jaime Carbonell | Ethics Talk |
| May 4 | Selected students | Presentation of Mini-Projects |
Note: Recitations will be scheduled on an as-needed basis, e.g. a few days before each homework is due, or to review a difficult topic, if there is sufficient demand as judged at the end of class.