| Date | Topic | Reading [Focus] | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri Jan 17 | Introduction & Administrivia | - | |
| Mon Jan 20 | Agents | Ch. 1, Ch. 2 [2.3, 2.4] | |
| Wed Jan 22 | Searching for Planning | Ch. 3 [3.3] | |
| Fri Jan 24 | Search Methods | Ch. 3 [3.5] | |
| Mon Jan 27 | Informed Search | Ch. 4 [4.1, 4.2, 4.4] | |
| Wed Jan 29 | Logic - GSAT | Ch. 6 [6.2, prob. 6.15], handout | |
| Fri Jan 31 | Situation Calculus | Ch. 7 [7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.9] | |
| Mon Feb 3 | STRIPS Planning Representation | Ch. 11 [11.2, 11.4, 11.8] | |
| Wed Feb 5 | Partial Order Planning | Ch. 11 [11.5, 11.6] | |
| Fri Feb 7 | Alternate Approaches to Planning | handout: GraphPlan, PlanSAT | |
| Mon Feb 10 | Planning via Trees (guest lecture) | - | |
| Wed Feb 12 | Conditional Planning and Nondeterminism | Ch. 13 [13.1, 13.2] | |
| Fri Feb 14 | Partially Observable Domains I | optional handout | |
| Mon Feb 17 | Review/Slack Day | - | |
| Wed Feb 19 | Exam 1: Deterministic Domains | ||
| Fri Feb 21 | Project Discussion | handout | |
| Mon Feb 24 | Probability | Ch. 14 [14.1] | |
| Wed Feb 26 | Belief Nets | Ch. 15 [15.1, 15.2] | |
| Fri Feb 28 | Inference in Belief Nets | Ch. 15 [15.3] | |
| Mon Mar 3 | Vision 1 (guest lecture) | Ch. 24 | |
| Wed Mar 5 | Vision 2 (guest lecture) | Ch. 24 | |
| Fri Mar 7 | Speech | Ch. 24 [24.7] | |
| Mon Mar 10 | Sequential Decision Problems | Ch. 17 [17.1] | |
| Wed Mar 12 | Algorithms for Sequential Decision Problems | Ch. 17 [17.2,17.3] | |
| Fri Mar 14 | Dynamic Belief Nets | Ch. 17 [17.5] | |
| Mon Mar 17 | Spring Break | ||
| Wed Mar 19 | |||
| Fri Mar 21 | |||
| Mon Mar 24 | Supervised learning (guest lecture) | Ch. 19 [19.3] | |
| Wed Mar 26 | Supervised learning (guest lecture) | Ch. 19 [19.4] | |
| Fri Mar 28 | Learning in Belief Nets | Ch. 19 [19.6] | |
| Mon Mar 31 | Reinforcement Learning | Ch. 20 [20.2] | |
| Wed Apr 2 | Reinforcement Learning for Control | Ch. 20 [20.5, 20.6] | |
| Fri Apr 4 | Value Function Approximation | Ch. 20 [20.7], handout | |
| Mon Apr 7 | Structured MDPs | handouts: exact, approx | |
| Wed Apr 9 | Searching in Policy Space: POP | Ch. 20 [20.8], handout | |
| Fri Apr 11 | Searching in Policy Space: GP | Ch. 20 [20.8], handout | |
| Mon Apr 14 | Partially Observable Domains II/Review | handout | |
| Wed Apr 16 | Exam 2: Stochastic Domains | ||
| Fri Apr 18 | Natural Language Applications | Ch. 23 [23.1] | |
| Mon Apr 21 | Internet Agents (guest) | handouts: taxonomy, engrng | |
| Wed Apr 23 | Robot Architectures | Ch. 25 [25.4] | |
| Fri Apr 25 | Navigation and Path Planning | Ch. 25 [25.6] | |
| Mon Apr 28 | Project Presentations | ||
| Wed Apr 30 | |||
| May 9th | Final Exam (9am) | ||