Artificial Intelligence, LP4, VT2013

Lectures

The lectures are at 9.00–11.45 on Tuesdays and Fridays during the first four course weeks, i.e., weeks 12, 15, 16 and 17.

• Tuesday 19th March (EF)
  • Demo videos.
  • Introduction, brief history of AI (chapter 1 slides).
  • Intelligent agents (chapter 2 slides).
  • Introduction to the course projects.
  • Start forming groups.
• Friday 22nd March (EB)
  • Detailed description of project 1.
  • Register groups.
  • Search algorithms (chapter 3 slides, part II, part III).
  • Local search (chapter 4 slides).
  • Games (chapter 5 slides).
• Tuesday 9th April (EF)
  • Propositional logic (chapter 7 slides).
  • First-order logic (chapter 8 slides).
  • Inference in first-order logic (chapter 9 slides).
• Friday 12th April (EB)
  • Constraint satisfaction problems (chapter 6 slides).
  • Classical planning (chapter 10 slides).
  • Uncertainty and probability (chapter 13 slides).
• Tuesday 16th April (EF)
  • Bayesian networks (chapter 14 slides).
  • Markov models (chapter 15 slides – page 11 is updated after the lecture).
  • Learning from examples (chapter 18a slides).
  • Artificial neural networks (chapter 18b slides, perceptron animation).
• Friday 19th April (EB)
  • Application area — NLP (chapters 22, 23). (lecture notes).
  • Philosophical foundations and ethical issues (chapter 26–27 slides).
  • Peter Norvig on "The History and Future of Technological Change" (video, transcript).
• Tuesday 23rd April (EF)
  • Detailed description of project 2.
  • Application area — bioinformatics (guest lecture by Chaitanya Koppisetty, slides).

• Friday 26th April (EB)
  • CANCELLED.

All chapters refer to the course book by Russel and Norvig.