Lectures for Artificial Intelligence I (COMP-424)

Winter 2012


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Schedule

Lec.
Date / Instructor
Topic
Readings
Notes
1
Jan. 9 / Joelle
 Introduction  RN, Chapter 1 & 2
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2
Jan. 11 / Joelle
 Uninformed and Informed Search  RN, Chapter 3
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3
Jan. 16 / Joelle
 Search for optimization problems  RN, Section 4.1
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4
Jan. 18 / Joelle
 Searching under uncertainty  RN, Sec. 4.2-4.5
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5
Jan. 23 / Sylvie
 Game playing  RN, Chapter 5
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6
Jan. 25 / Sylvie
 Constraint satisfaction  RN, Chapter 6
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7
Jan. 30 / Joelle
 Knowledge Representation & Logic  RN, Chapters 7, 8, 9
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8
Feb. 1 / Joelle
 Classical Planning  RN, Chapter 10
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9
Feb. 6 / Sylvie
 Introduction to reasoning under uncertainty: Probabilities
 RN, Chapter 13
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10
Feb. 8
 Midterm Exam
 
 Held in Trottier 0100
11
Feb. 13 / Sylvie
 Bayesian Networks
 RN, Sec. 14.1, 14.2, 14.4
 
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12
Feb. 15 / Sylvie
 Bayesian Networks (cont'd)  RN, Sec. 14.1, 14.2, 14.4
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Feb. 20
 Study week.  
 
 
Feb. 22
 Study week.  
 
13
Feb. 27 / Sylvie
 Maximum likelihood  RN, Sec. 20.1-20.2 (up to p.719)
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14
Feb. 29 / Sylvie
 Expectation maximization  RN, Sec. 20.3
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15
Mar. 5 / Sylvie
 Supervised learning: Linear predictors, gradient descent  RN, Sec.18.1, 18.2, 18.4, 18.6
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16
Mar. 7 / Joelle
 Decision Trees  RN, Sec. 18.3
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17
Mar. 12 / Joelle
 Neural networks: Sigmoid neurons, backpropagation  RN, Sec. 18.7
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18
Mar. 14 / Sylvie
 Feature Selection  
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19
Mar. 19 / Joelle
 Utility theory  RN, Chapter 16
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20
Mar. 21 / Joelle
 Markov Decision Processes  RN, Sec. 17.1 - 17.3
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21
Mar. 26 / Joelle
 Reinforcement learning  RN, Sec. 21.1, 21.2, 21.4
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22
Mar. 28 / Joelle
 Applications in medicine  
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23
Apr. 2 / Sylvie
 Hidden Markov Models  RN, Sec. 15.1-15.3
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24
Apr. 4 / Sylvie
 Natural language processing  
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Apr. 9
 Easter Monday
 
 
25
Apr.11 / Joelle
 Robotics  RN, Chapter 25
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26
Apr. 16 / Joelle
 AI: Present and Future.  RN, Chapter 26 and 27
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