WPI Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Computer Science Department
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CS534 Artificial Intelligence 
Schedule of Classes - Fall 2006

PROF. CAROLINA RUIZ 

WARNING: Changes to this schedule may be made during the course of the semester. 
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Week Date Due Topic Chapters
1 Sept 5 & 7   Introduction to AI
Agents
Blind Search and Informed Search
1, 2, 3, 4
2 Sept 12 & 14 HW1 HW1 Presentations & Discussion
Simulated Annealing
Genetic Algorithms
Analysis of Search Methods
3, 4, 6
3 Sept 19 & 21 HW2 HW2 Presentations & Discussion
Adversarial Search
Constraint Satisfaction Problems
5, 6
4 Sept 26 & 28 HW3 HW3 Presentations & Discussion
Propositional Logic
7
5 Oct 3 & 5 HW4 HW4 Presentations & Discussion
1st Order Logic
8
6 Oct 10 & 12   *** EXAM 1 ***
Inference in 1st Order Logic
9
7 Oct 17 & 19 HW5 HW5 Presentations & Discussion
Planning
11
8 Oct 24 & 26 HW6 HW6 Presentations & Discussion
Uncertainty
Probabilistic Reasoning
13, 14.1-14.2
9 Oct 31 & Nov 2 HW7
PROJ Part II
Proposal
HW7 Presentations & Discussion
Probabilistic Reasoning (cont.)
13, 14,.1-14.4
10 Nov 7 & 9 PROJ Part I Machine Learning
Project I Presentations
18.1-18.3
11 Nov 14 & 16   Machine Learning (cont.) 20.2, 20.5
  Nov 21 & 23 HW8 No classes - Thanksgiving Break  
12 Nov 28 & 30   HW8 Presentations & Discussion
Natural Language Processing
22, 15.6
13 Dec 5 & 7 PROJ Part II Machine Vision
Project Presentations
24
14 Dec 12 & 14   *** EXAM 2 ***
Project presentations (cont.)