CPSC 522 - AI 2
Schedule

Here is a tentative schedule. The dates for all topics in the future should be regarded as fiction.

• Jan 2 - Intro to AI, Design space of AI, knowledge representation. Reading: AIFCA Chapter 1.
• Jan 4 - Probability. Belief networks. See Bayes net tool used in class (we used the "electrical diagnosis" sample problem). Assignment 0 Due
• Jan 9 - probabilistic inference. search-based inference.
• Jan 11 - Reading. approximate inference, uncertainty and time. Bayesian localization demo. Sebastian Thrun's Monte Carlo Localization video.
• Jan 16 - Learning belief networks. Learning belief networks Assignment 1 Due now with Solution to Assignment 1
• Jan 18 - Reading - Lowd.
• Jan 23 - Reading - Pearl. Learning belief networks (cont.). Relational representations: Datalog. Model-theoretic Semantics.
• Jan 25. Relational representations (cont). Variables, Proof procedures. AILog.
• Jan 30. Triple representation. Ask-the-user. Complete Knowledge Assumption.
• Feb 1. Reading - Sammut. AILog subtraction Assignment 2 Due and a solution.
• Feb 6 - ontologies.
• Feb 8 - Reading - Ontologies. relational probabilistic models.
• Feb 13 - relational probabilistic models (cont.)
• Feb 15 - Reading - collaborative filtering. collab_filter.zip.
• Feb 18-22 - Reading Week
• Feb 27 - lifted inference. limitations and potential. Assignment 3 Due.
• March 1 - lifted inference (cont.) project proposal Due (see also project ideas.
• March 6 - reading. Utilities.
• March 8 - utilities (cont.), Decisions.
• March 13 - reading. decisions (cont.)
• March 15 - guest lecture, Brent Chamberlain, IRES.
• March 20 - reading. sequential decision making value iteration applet. Reinforcement learning. Tiny game. Simple game.
• March 22 - MDP reading. decisions / RL (cont.)
• Mar 27 - cognitive robotics reading. decisions / RL (cont.)
• Apr 3 - RL reading
• Apr 5 - wrap up: putting everything together.
• Mon Apr 8 - noon - project papers due (email to David)
• Wed Apr 10 1pm-4pm - paper presentations
• Mon Apr 15 - noon - reviews due and distributed to authors
• Mon Apr 22 - noon - final papers due

Last updated: 2013-03-20, David Poole