The schedule is subject to change. The listing below provides a sense of the topics to be covered and pointers to relevant information
| Date | Foundations | Assignment | Lecture Time | Projects |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tuesday August 21 | Introduction | |||
| Thursday August 23 | Uniformed search | |||
| Tuesday August 28 | Chapter 3,4 | Search | Informed Search, Reach for A* (slides, paper1, paper2) | |
| Thursday August 30 | Simulated annealing, genetic algorithms | |||
| Tuesday September 4 | Chapter 5,6 | Games/CSP | Game Playing | |
| Thursday September 6 | N-player games | |||
| Tuesday September 11 | Procedural Content Generation | Proposal1 | ||
| Thursday September 13 | Proposal1 Review | |||
| Tuesday September 18 | Probabilistic games | Proposal1 Revision | ||
| Thursday September 20 | Constraint Satisfaction | |||
| Tuesday September 25 | Chapter 7-9 | Logic | Propositional Logic | |
| Thursday September 27 | (Thad sick) | |||
| Tuesday October 2 | Chapter 10, 13, 14.1-4 | Planning and Bayes Nets | Logic & catch-up | |
| Thursday October 4 | First Order Logic | |||
| Tuesday October 9 | Planning | Paper1 | ||
| Thursday October 11 | Paper 1 review | |||
| Tuesday October 16 | Fall Break | |||
| Thursday October 18 | Presentations | Paper1 revision | ||
| Tuesday October 23 | Gaussian models, HMMs, Viterbi | |||
| Thursday October 25 | Chap 13, 15, 20.3 | Assignment 5 | EM and Kalman Filters | |
| Tuesday October 30 | Bayes Nets | Proposal2 | ||
| Thursday November 1 | Proposal2 review | |||
| Tuesday November 6 | Guest lecture | Proposal2 Revision | ||
| Thursday November 8 | Chap 18, 19 | Assignment 6 | learning, testing, decision trees, MAP/ML | |
| Tuesday November 13 | Attend IPaT panel,Centurgy 75 5th St. NW, 6th Floor, Suite 600 | |||
| Thursday November 15 | Decision Trees in text entry, boosting tutorial , boosting with HMMs for activity recognition, Segmentally Boosted HMMs | |||
| Tuesday November 20 | Chap 17, 21 | Assignment 7 | SVM, NN, MDP/POMDP, human assisted robot learning | |
| Thursday November 22 | HOLIDAY | |||
| Tuesday November 27 | Chap 22-23 | Assignment 8 | NLP, information retrieval | |
| Thursday November 29 | Perception, particle filters | Paper2 | ||
| Tuesday December 4 | Paper2 review | |||
| Thursday December 6 | Presentations | Paper2 revision | ||
| Thursday December 13 | (final exam period) | Learning Portfolio |