CPSC 502 - Fall 2009

Schedule and Slides

This schedule is subject to change, and so are the slides.

• Sept 10 - AI and agents, dimensions, applications.
• Sept 15 - control, hierarchical control, play with the AIspace robot control applet.
• Sept 17 - search, uninformed search, heuristic search, refinements, play with the AIspace search applet.
• Sept 22 - search (cont'd). Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSPs), AIspace consistency-based CSP Applet.
• Sept 24, 29 - Stochastic Local Search (SLS) , other CSP issues, AIspace SLS applet.
• Oct 1 - propositions, bottom-up proof, top-down proof, integrity constraints.
• Oct 6 - ask-the-user and knowledge-based explanation and debugging, complete knowledge assumption, play with AILog.
• Oct 8 - probability, belief networks, and see the AIspace belief network applet.
• Oct 13 - probabilistic inference, stochastic simulation, uncertainty and time, Bayesian localization demo, (See also Sebastian Thrun's Monte Carlo Localization videos)
• Oct 15 - supervised learning: machine learning overview.
• Oct 20 - supervised learning, basic learning models, neural networks, Bayesian learning.
• Oct 22 - action representations, forward planning.
• Oct 27 - backward planning, CSP planning.
• Oct 29 - utilities, decision networks.
• Nov 3 - decision processes, value iteration applet, reinforcement learning (RL), RL for tiny game.
• Nov 5 - RL (cont'd)
• Nov 10 - objects and relations, logical semantics.
• Nov 12 - flexible representations, ontologies.
• Nov 17 - Review session
• Nov 19 - Exam
• Nov 24 - Research presentations
• Nov 26 - (cont'd)
• Dec 1 - (cont'd)
• Dec 3 - (cont'd)

Last updated 2009-09-14, Alan Mackworth