| Instructor: | Lisa Cingiser DiPippo | TA: | Zhi Lin | Office: Tyler 250 | Office: Tyler 140 | Phone: 874-2701 | Phone: 874-4226 | email: dipippo@cs.uri.edu | email: linz@cs.uri.edu | Office Hours: MW 1:30-2:30 | Office Hours: Thur 10:30-11:30 |
Time: Tues 6-8:45 pm
Location: Tyler 106
Text: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, Russell & Norvig, Prentice Hall, 1995.
Course Description:
This course gives students and introduction to artificial
intelligence from the perspective of intelligent agents.
The material in the course covers various topics in artificial
intelligence including agents, search, game-playing, logic, planning,
learning, vision and robotics.
Students are expected to attend class. Please inform me if you will be unable to attend a class so that you can find out what will be covered.
Course Topics & Tentative Schedule:
| Topics | Chapters | Dates |
| Introduction, History, Intelligent agents | 1,2 | 1/22 |
| Uninformed search | 3 | 1/29 |
| Informed search | 4 | 2/5 |
| Game playing | 5 | 2/12 |
| Monday classes meet - no class | 2/19 | |
| Logical agents | 6 | 2/26 |
| First-order logic, Inferencing | 7,9 | 3/5 |
| Spring Break | 3/12 | |
| Midterm | 1-7,9 | 3/19 |
| Planning | 11,13 | 3/26 |
| Uncertainty |
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4/2 |
| Decision making | 16,17 | 4/9 |
| Learning | 18,20 | 4/16 |
| Communicating agents |
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4/23 |
| Perception, robotics | 4/30 | |
| Philosophical foundations, Future | 5/7 |
Assignments:
Students are expected to read assigned chapters before class meetings.
Homework
problems will be assigned some weeks. They will be due the following
class meeting, unless otherwise specified. Each student will be responsible for
leading the class discussion on a chosen course topic,
as well as writing a
research
paper on that topic. There will also be an
independent programming project in which each
student will implement some artificial intelligence algorithm for demonstration.
Exams:
There will be a midterm and a final exam. Each will cover half
of the material presented in class.
Grading Policy:
All assignments are to be handed in on time. Unexcused late assignments
will lose 5% for each day late, up to a maximum of 5 days late. After that
no credit will be given.
| Homework |
10%
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| Programming Project |
20%
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| Class Presentation |
15%
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| Research Paper |
15%
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| Midterm |
20%
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| Final Exam |
20%
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