CSE 5320/7320 SPRING 2002
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Professor Margaret H. Dunham
326 SIC
phone:(214) 768-3087
fax: (214) 768-3085
email: mhd@engr.smu.edu
www: http://www.engr.smu.edu/~mhd
Office Hours: 10-11 MWF

TA: Alex Fit-Florea
310 SIC
phone: (214) 768-3093
email: alex@engr.smu.edu

Text:

Artificial Intelligence A Modern Approach, by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig

Course Description:

The purpose of this course is to introduce the student to basic principles and current research topics in artificial intelligence. Included are formal representaiton of real-world problems, search of problem spaces for solutions, and deduction of knowledge in terms of predicate logic, nomonotonic reasoning, and fuzzy sets.

It is expected that each student will keep up with the reading as outlined in the syllabus below. Additional materials may be referenced in class as needed.

All videotape students have an automatic two week extension on all assignments.

Graduate students enrolled in CSE 7320 will be required to complete an extra project which includes a paper and class presentation.

Grading(Undergraduate):

Homework

25%

Test 1

25%

Test 2

25%

Final

25%

Grading(Graduate):

Homework

20%

Test 1

20%

Test 2

20%

Project

20%

Final

20%


Disability Accommodations:  If you need academic accommodations for a

disability, you must first contact Ms. Rebecca Marin, Coordinator, Services

for Students with Disabilities (214-768-4563) to verify the disability and

to establish eligibility for accommodations.  Then you should schedule an

appointment with the professor to make appropriate arrangements.;



Tentative Schedule (Subject to Change):

 

TOPIC (Dates)

READING

HW

Introduction, Intelligent Agents (1/14-1/16)

Ch1,Ch2

HW1; Due 1/28

HOLIDAY (1/21)

 

 

LISP (1/23)

Problem Solving, Searching, Game Playing (1/28-2/11)

Ch3,Ch4,Ch5

HW2; Due 2/18

Knowledge, Logic Reasoning, and First-Order Logic (2/13-2/25)

Ch6,Ch7

HW3; Due 2/25

TEST 1 (2/27)

Knowledge Engineering, Inference, Logical Reasoning (3/4-3/20)

Ch8,Ch9,Ch10

HW4; Due 3/27

SPRING BREAK (3/11-3/15)

 

 

Planning (3/25-4/3)

Ch11,Ch12,Ch13

HW5; Due 4/10

Uncertainty, Probabilistic Reasoning, Fuzzy Logic (4/8-4/15)

Ch14,Ch15

HW6; Due 4/15

TEST 2 (4/17)

Machine Learning, Induction, NN, GA (4/22)

Ch18,Ch19,Ch20

Natural Language Processing (4/24)

Ch22,Ch23

HW7; Due 4/29

Review (4/29)

 

 

FINAL; May 8; 8:00AM

 

Graduate Level Project Due 5/8