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 2012
Assignment of material to quizzes is tentative, but final assignment will be announced well before each quiz.
September | Day | Topic | Quiz # | Playlist |
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5 | Wed | What it's all about | Start me up, Stones | |
10 | Mon | Goal trees and problem solving | 1 | This could be the last time, Stones |
12 | Wed | Rule-based expert systems (pp.53-60) | 1 | Engineer's Song, Chorallaries |
14 | Fri | Basic search | --- | Searchin', Beatles |
17 | Mon | Optimal search | 1 | Route 66, Stones |
19 | Wed | Games | 1 | It's Only Rock and Roll, Stones |
24 | Mon | Constraints in interpretation | 2s | 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 | 2s | The First Time I Saw your Face, Presley |
5 | Fri | Gerald J. Sussman: Propagator systems | 2s | |
10 | Wed | Nearest neighbor learning /Sleep | 2 | |
12 | Fri | Identification tree learning | 2 | |
15 | Mon | Neural net learning | 3 | 19th Nervous Breakdown, Stones |
17 | Wed | Genetic algorithms | 3s | Let's spend the night together, Stones |
19 | Fri | Edward Boyden: Real neural nets | 3s | |
22 | Mon | Learning in sparse spaces | 3s | You talk too much, Peas |
24 | Wed | Quiz 2 | - | - |
26 | Fri | To be determined | 3s | |
29 | Mon | Support-vector machines, SVM (and Boosting) Notes | 3 | 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 |
2 | Fri | Professor Nancy Kanwisher: watching the brain at work Less than you want to know Maybe more than you want to know | 4s | Happy, Stones |
5 | Mon | Learning from near misses | 4s | Imma Be Rocking that Body, Peas |
7 | Wed | GPS, SOAR, Subsumption, Society of Mind | 4s | Thus spake Zarathustra, Strauss |
9 | Fri | To be determined | 4s | |
14 | Wed | Quiz 3 | - | - |
16 | Fri | To be determined | 4s | |
19 | Mon | Representation | 4s | Selections from the Black Watch, aka The Ladies from Hell |
21 | Wed | The AI Business | - | Money, money, ABBA |
26 | Mon | Probabilistic inference I | 4 | |
28 | Wed | Probabilistic inference II | 4 | Tumbling Dice, Stones |
30 | Fri | Vikash Mansinghka: Statistical systems | 4s | |
December | Day | Topic | Quiz # | Playlist |
3 | Mon | Hypotheses: more than you want to know | 4s | Ode to Joy, Ninth Symphony, Beethoven |
5 | Wed | Quiz 4 | - | - |
10 | Mon | Cross-modal clustering: less and more than you want to know | 4s | Don't stop, Stones |