DM828 - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

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Fall 2011, second quarter, weeks 45-51	Tuesday, 08:00-10:00 in IMADA Seminarrum
First lecture: November 8, 2011	Wednesday, 12:00-14:00 in IMADA Seminarrum
Last lecture: December 22, 2011	Thursday, 12:00-14:00 in IMADA Seminarrum

For a more detailed list of contents see syllabus.

Lec.	Date	Topic and Slides	Literature and Assignments
0	03.05.2011	Presentation
1	08.11.2011	Introduction, Intelligent Agents	[B1 chp. 1,2; A1] [ Python ]
2	09.11.2011	Uninformed and Informed Search	[B1 chp. 3]
3	10.11.2011	Exercises	[ Assignment 1 ]
4	15.11.2011	Probability Theory Review	[B1 sec. 7.2, 7.3, chp. 13, A.3]
5	16.11.2011	Graphical models: Bayesian Networks	[B1 14.1-14.3]
	16.11.2011	HCA Lecture: Robots and people working together, R. Brooks
6	17.11.2011	Exercises	[B1 sec. 13.6]
7	22.11.2011	Inference in Graphical Models	[B1 sec. 14.4-14.5]
8	23.11.2011	Graphical Models for Sequential Data	[B1 sec. 15.1-15.4]
9	24.11.2011	Exercises	[ Assignment 2 ]
10	29.11.2011	Supervised Learning: Decision Trees and Linear Models	[B1 sec. 18.1-18.3,18.6,18.8]
11	30.11.2011	Artificial Neural Networks	[B1 sec. 18.4,18.5,18.7,18.8,18.10,18.11]
12	01.12.2011	Exercises
13	06.12.2011	Learning in Graphical Models	[B1 chp. 20]
14	07.12.2011	Reinforcement Learning	[B1 sec.17.1-17.2.2, sc.21.1;21.2.1;21.2.3;21.3]
15	08.12.2011	ML Applications: Naive Bayes for Spam classification	[B2 6.1, 6.4 ], [B1 sec. 22.2] [ Assignment 3 ]
16	13.12.2011	Exercises
17	14.12.2011	Games and Adversarial Search	[B1 chp. 5] [ Assignment 4 ]
18	15.12.2011	ML Applications: Natural Language Processing	[B1 chp. 22.1-2, 23.1-23.3.1, 23.4-5]
19	20.12.2011	Exercises
20	21.12.2011	Logical agents	[B1 chp. 7,8, sec. 17.5]
21	22.12.2011	Canceled
22	16.01.2012	Exercises for exam preparation (see also Exam 2009) in U49E

Text book

• [B1] S. Russell and P. Norvig. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach. Third Edition. Prentice Hall, 2010.
• [B2] Richard S. Sutton and Andrew G. Barto Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction A Bradford Book. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1998.

Articles

• [A1] A.M. Turing. Computing Machinery and Intelligence. Mind, Oxford University Press on behalf of the Mind Association, 1950, 59(236), 433-460

Videos and Similar Courses

• CS188 at Berkeley by Dan Klein. All lectures on YouTube
• Intro to AI at Stanford by Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig

Links

• Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (once ``American Association for Artificial Intelligence'') and Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference (IAAI)
• International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence
• European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence and European Conference on AI
• Danish Artificial Intelligence Society

• Associazione Italiana per l'Intelligenza Artificiale AI*IA

• Forbes' special issue on AI (June 2009)
• Loebner Prize in Artificial Intelligence. Examples from the field of natural language processing.

• Richard Wallace's Alicebot with links to Alice.
• Den Werkseuge Eliza
• Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence

• Visual Turing Test
• Car evolution, learning by evolution

• Games: Kalaha and Berkeley's GamesCrafters research and development group

• Obligatory assignments
• Written exam January 19, 2012, 9:00-12:00 in U51 and U52

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