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Last updated: 3 Jan 2011
| # | DOW | MM | DD | Section | Topic | Reading | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | R | Jan | 13 | Welcome | Introduction | 1 | ||
| 2 | T | Jan | 18 | Search | Basic search | 3.1-3.4 | ||
| 3 | R | Jan | 20 | Search strategies | 3.5-3.6 | Assignment 1 | ||
| 4 | T | Jan | 25 | Local search | 4.1 | |||
| 5 | R | Jan | 27 | Adversarial search | 5 | |||
| 6 | T | Feb | 1 | Constraint satisfaction | 6 | |||
| 7 | R | Feb | 3 | Knowledge | Propositional logic | 7.1-7.4 | Assignment 2 | |
| 8 | T | Feb | 8 | Theorem proving | 7.5 | |||
| 9 | R | Feb | 10 | First-order logic | 8, some of 9 | |||
| 10 | T | Feb | 15 | Planning | 10, bits from 11 | |||
| 11 | R | Feb | 17 | Agents | 2, 7.7, 11.3 | |||
| 12 | T | Feb | 22 | Midterm | ||||
| 13 | R | Feb | 24 | Uncertainty | Probabilistic Reasoning | 13 | Assignment 3 | |
| 14 | T | Mar | 1 | Uncertain Inference - Bayes Nets | 14-14.5 | |||
| 15 | R | Mar | 3 | Probabilistic Reasoning over Time - HMMs | 15-15.3 | |||
| T | Mar | 8 | Spring break | |||||
| R | Mar | 10 | Spring break | |||||
| 16 | T | Mar | 15 | Decision Making Under Uncertainty | 16-16.2, 17-17.3 | |||
| 17 | R | Mar | 17 | POMDPs & Game Theory | 17.4-17.5 | |||
| 18 | T | Mar | 22 | Learning | Learning from Examples | 18-18.3 | Assignment 4 | |
| 19 | R | Mar | 24 | Learning methods - Regression, NNs, SVMs | 18.6-18.9 | |||
| 20 | T | Mar | 29 | Learning Probabilistic Models | 20 | |||
| 21 | R | Mar | 31 | Reinforcement Learning | 21 | |||
| 22 | T | Apr | 5 | Review/Catchup | ||||
| 23 | R | Apr | 7 | TBD | ||||
| 24 | T | Apr | 12 | Topics | Games/Robots | |||
| 25 | R | Apr | 14 | Web | ||||
| 26 | T | Apr | 19 | Biomedical | ||||
| 27 | R | Apr | 21 | Assistive | ||||
| 28 | T | Apr | 26 | Final exam |