Welcome to ITK 340: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Spring, 2006
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| Week | Date | Reading Assignment for this class | Assignments due | Topic |
| 1 | 1/18/06 | None | None | Introduction |
| 1/20/06 | None | None | NO CLASS | |
| 2 | 1/23/06 |
None |
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NO CLASS |
| 1/25/06 | Chapters 1 and 2 | Chapter 1, exs 1, 7 (any 3 parts), 9 and 10. Questionnaire Email to mecaliff@ilstu.edu |
Intelligent Agents | |
| 1/27/06 | None | Chapter 2, exs 5 and 6 Lisp Handout 1 |
Intro to Lisp | |
| 3 | 1/30/06 | Chapter 3 | Lisp Handout 2 | Lisp |
| 2/1/06 | Chapter 4, sections 1 and 2 | Lisp Handout 3 | Uninformed search | |
| 2/3/06 | Finish chapter 4 | Lisp Handout 4 | Informed search | |
| 4 | 2/6/06 | Chapter 6 | Chapter 3, ex 7 | Informed Search |
| 2/8/06 | Chapter 7, sections 1-4 | Chapter 4, exs 1 and 11 | Adversarial search | |
| 2/10/06 | Finish chapter 7 | Chapter 6, exs 1 and 3(a-c) | Knowledge Representation | |
| 5 | 2/13/06 | Chapter 8 | Chapter 7, ex 1 | Propositional logic Intro to first-order logic |
| 2/15/06 | Chapter 9, sections 1-3 | Chapter 7, exs 8 and 9 | First-order logic | |
| 2/17/06 | Chapter 9, sections 4-6 | Program 1 | Reasoning in first-order logic | |
| 6 | 2/20/06 | None |
Prolog Handout 1 |
Reasoning Prolog |
| 2/22/06 | None |
Prolog Handout 2 |
Prolog | |
| 2/24/06 | None | Prolog Handout 3 | Logic | |
| 7 | 2/27/06 | Chapter 10, sections 1-2 | Prolog Handout 4 Chapter 9, ex. 9-11 |
Resolution |
| 3/1/06 | None | None | Exam 1 | |
| 3/3/06 | None | None | NO CLASS | |
| 8 | 3/6/06 | Chapter 10, sections 3-4 | Take home part of exam 1 due | Knowledge representation |
| 3/8/06 | Finish chapter 10 | None | Knowledge rep. cont. | |
| 3/10/06 | Chapter 11, sections 1-2 | Chapter 10, exercises 1 and 5 |
Semantic Nets and Default Reasoning Planning |
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| SPRING BREAK | NO SCHOOL | |||
| 9 | 3/20 | Chapter 11, section 3 | None | Planning |
| 3/22 | Finish chapter 11 | Program 2 | Strips | |
| 3/24 | None | None | Partial Order Planning Uncertainty |
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| 10 | 3/27 | Chapter 13 | Chapter 11, exercise 4 | Probability |
| 3/29 | Chapter 14, sections 1-4 | Chapter 13, exercises 6 and 8 | Bayesian Networks | |
| 3/31 | Chapter 18, sections 1-3 | None | Machine Learning | |
| 11 | 4/3 | None | Chapter 14, ex 1(a-d) and 2(a,c) | Learning, cont. |
| 4/5 | Finish reading chapter 18 | Chapter 18, ex 1 and 2 | Learning as search Decision Tree Learning |
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| 4/7 | None | Program 3 Lisp Assignment Prolog Assignment |
Decision Tree Learning | |
| 12 | 4/10 | None | Chapter 18, exs 3 and 4 | Decision Tree Variations Ensembles |
| 4/12 | None | None | Exam 2 | |
| 4/14 | Read chapter 19, sections 1-3 | None | Ensembles Knowledge in Learning |
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| 13 | 4/17 | Finish chapter 19 | Takehome 2 due | Inductive Logic Programming |
| 4/19 | Chapter 20, section 4 | None | Neural networks | |
| 4/21 | Chapter 22, sections 1-3 | ILP mini-project (or mega-homework) | Neural networks | |
| 14 | 4/24 | Chapter 22, sections 4-6 | None | Natural language Processing |
| 4/26 | Finish chapter 22 | Program 4(postponed from Friday) | NLP | |
| 4/28 | Read chapter 23 | Chapter 22, exercises 1, 4, 7, 14 | NLP | |
| 15 | 5/1 | None | Chapter 22, exercise 12 | NLP Research |
| 5/3 | Read Chapter 26 | Chapter 23, exercises 8, 9 | NLP Research | |
| 5/5 | None | Program 5 |