WPI Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Computer Science Department
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CS534 Artificial Intelligence 
Schedule of Classes - Fall 2007

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 4 & 6   Introduction to AI
Agents
Blind Search and Informed Search
1, 2, 3, 4
2 Sept 11 & 13 HW1 Simulated Annealing
Genetic Algorithms
Analysis of Search Methods

HW1 Presentations & Discussion
3, 4, 6
3 Sept 18 & 20 HW2 Adversarial Search
Constraint Satisfaction Problems

HW2 Presentations & Discussion
5, 6
4 Sept 25 & 27 HW3 Propositional Logic
HW3 Presentations & Discussion
7
5 Oct 2 & 4 HW4 Propositional Logic
HW4 Presentations & Discussion
7
6 Oct 9 & 11   1st Order Logic
*** EXAM 1 ***
8
7 Oct 16 & 18 HW5 Inference in 1st Order Logic
HW5 Presentations & Discussion
9
8 Oct 23 & 25 PROJ Part II
Proposal
Planning 11.1-11.3,11.6,
11.7,12.2
9 Oct 30 & Nov 1   Uncertainty
No class on Nov. 1st
13
10 Nov 6 & 8 HW6
PROJ Part I
Probabilistic Reasoning
Project I Presentations
14.1-14.4
11 Nov 13 & 15 HW7 Machine Learning
HW7 Presentations & Discussion
18.1-18.3, 20.2, 20.5
  Nov 20 & 22   No classes - Thanksgiving Break  
12 Nov 27 & 29   Natural Language Processing
HW8 Presentations & Discussion
22, 15.6
13 Dec 4 & 6 HW8
PROJ Part II
Machine Vision
Project Presentations
24
14 Dec 11 & 13   *** EXAM 2 ***
Project presentations (cont.)