CSI 460 - Artificial Intelligence

Date

Week #

Lecture #s

Description

Files/HW/Links

4/27
15
  • 28
  • 27
  • Closing Paper Discussions
  • Exam III
4/20
14
  • 26
  • 25
  • Review, Paper Assgn due Last day of classes
  • Work Day
  • Mancala Due
  • Stage 4 Progress
4/13
13
  • 24
  • 23
  • Inferencing, Chaining
  • Knowledge Bases
  • Stage 3 Due
  • Stage 2 Due, Stage 3 Progress
4/6
12
  • 22
  • 21
  • Speaker/Round Table w/ Matthew McCabe
  • Exam Review, The ethics of mechanical thinking, Work
  • Stage 2 Progress
  • Mancala Rules, Stages Complete the operation in a loop. Detect end of game. Allow user to take another turn if their last stone is cast into their own scoring hole. (Complete Stage 2 - due Tuesday)
3/30
11
  • 20
  • 19
  • NQueens solutions
  • Exam
  • Display Mancala Board, User chooses one hole, Perform operation on hole
  • Review Sheet#2
3/23
10
  • 18
  • 17
  • Minimax/Review Sheet
  • Evaluation/Heuristics and HC work
  • Homework Due by Saturday 11:59pm
  • eval.cpp
3/16
9
  • 16
  • 15
  • CSPs, Minimax
  • CSPs cont
  • Solve via hill-climbing and hill-climbing with random restarts (Compare: how many steps to solution? What pct are solved?) Extra Credit: Solve via one other method and compare. Solve for N=10 and use 10000 generated problem.
  • N-Queens - generate problems and write a successor function
3/9
8
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  • SPRING BREAK
  • No classes
3/2
7
  • 14
  • 13
  • FLU
  • Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSP)
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2/23
6
  • 12
  • 11
  • Local Search Algs/Mancal Intro
  • Local Search Algorithms
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  • Fully Implement Problem Solver for Cannbials and Missonaries
2/16
5
  • 10
  • 9
  • Exam
  • Informed Search and Review
2/9
4
  • 8
  • 7
  • Informed Search
  • Search Strategies, BFS, DFS, Uniform-Cost, Depth Limited, Iterative Deepening, Analysis (Time,Space,Complete,Optimal)
  • Successor Function, Invalid/Game Over Function
  • State-Space/Cannibals and Missionaries
2/2
3
  • 6
  • 5
  • Problem-Solving Agents
  • Agent-Types
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1/26
2
  • 4
  • 3
  • Response Papers, Environments
  • Agents, Rational, PEAS, Environments
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  • Read947-967, Write a one page typed response to the questions: Can machines think? Should machines have the same rights as humans?
1/19
1
  • 2
  • 1
  • History/Pre-History and Driving Forces of AI
  • Syllabus and What is AI?