Reference material
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Some of the readings come from Patrick Winston's AI textbook (third edition), which exists as a physical book, but is also available on the internet (and there's a table of contents here).
Topics and Playlist 2011
| September | Day | Topic | Quiz # | Playlist |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | Wed | What it's all about | 1 | This could be the last time, Stones |
| 10 | Mon | Goal trees and problem solving | 1 | You can get it if you really want it, Jimmy Cliff |
| 12 | Wed | Rule-based expert systems (pp.53-60) | 1 | Engineer's Song, Chorallaries |
| 14 | Mon | Basic search | 1 | Searchin', Stones |
| 17 | Fri | Optimal search | 1 | Route 66, Stones |
| 19 | Mon | Games | 2 | It's Only Rock and Roll, Stones |
| 24 | Wed | Constraints in interpretation | 2 | I Can't Get No Satisfaction, Stones |
| 26 | Wed | Quiz 1 | - | - |
| October | Day | Topic | Quiz # | Playlist |
| 1 | Mon | Constraints in resource allocation | 2 | Paint it Black, Stones |
| 3 | Wed | Constraints in recognition | 2 | The First Time I Saw your Face, Presley |
| 10 | Wed | Nearest neighbor learning /Sleep | 3 | ABC song, Ray Charles et al. |
| 12 | Fri | Identification tree learning | 3 | To be determined |
| 15 | Mon | Neural net learning | 3 | 19th Nervous Breakdown, Stones |
| 17 | Wed | Genetic algorithms | 3 | Let's spend the night together, Stones |
| 22 | Mon | Learning in sparse spaces | 3 | You talk too much, Peas |
| 24 | Wed | Quiz 2 | - | - |
| 29 | Mon | Support-vector machines, SVM (and Boosting) Notes | 4 | Get a little help from my friends, Beatles |
| 31 | Wed | Boosting (Winston and Ortiz notes), Boosting (Shapiri paper) | 4 | Workin' together, Ike and Tina Turner |
| November | Day | Topic | Quiz # | Playlist |
| 5 | Mon | Learning from near misses | 3 | Imma Be Rocking that Body, Peas |
| 7 | Wed | Slides GPS, SOAR, Subsumption, Society of Mind | 4 | Thus spake Zarathustra, Strauss |
| 14 | Wed | Quiz 3 | - | - |
| 19 | Mon | Representation | 4 | Selections from the Black Watch, aka The Ladies from Hell |
| 21 | Wed | The AI Business | - | Money, money, ABBA |
| 26 | Mon | Probabilistic inference I | 5 | Oh No, Not You Again, Stones |
| 28 | Wed | Probabilistic inference II | 5 | Tumbling Dice, Stones |
| December | Day | Topic | Quiz # | Playlist |
| 3 | Mon | Slides Hypotheses: more than you want to know | 5 | Ode to Joy, Ninth Symphony, Beethoven |
| 5 | Wed | Quiz 4 | - | - |
| 12 | Wed | Slides Cross-modal clustering: less and more than you want to know | 5 | Don't stop, Stones |
