Course Description

Fundamental issues in intelligent systems. Knowledge representation and mechanisms of reasoning. Search and constraint satisfaction. Agents. Application areas of AI and current topics. Students will learn basic concepts of artificial intelligence and get some hands on experience to solve real-life problems. Python will be used for all the assignments.

Textbook

B1. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach

B2. Convex Optimization (optional)

B3. Applied Mathematical Programming (optional)

Communication

All written communication should be directed though Piazza. Sign up instructions will be sent to your email. You can post publicly or privately depending on your preference. Emails won’t be responded to. Except for the sign-up phase of the class, we will not be using be D2L for anything else.

Assignments

We will be using GitHub Classroom for all the assignments in this course. Sign up instructions will be sent to your email.

Course Policy

Details on course policies can be found here.

Navigating the Lecture Slides

1. The slides with audio work best on Safari, Chrome, Firefox and Opera. I have not tested other browsers.
2. If you want to get a PDF of the slides, press ‘e’ and it should create a PDF that can be downloaded.
3. Hit the play button at the bottom of the screen and the slides should play the audio and auto advance.
4. On Chrome you can select playback speed in the audio control bar at the bottom.
5. Press ‘n’ to manually navigate forward, and ‘p’ to navigate backward. Do not use the left/right arrow keys.
6. You can skip to any slide you like and simply press the play button at the bottom to listen to the audio for that slide.
7. If the audio gets stuck or does not play, refresh that page. This is a known problem and occurs when the browser does not fully load the audio file.

Schedule and Syllabus