CSE 511A: Artificial Intelligence


Instructor contact information:

Mail:
Dr. Sharlee Climer
Campus Box 8067
Washington University School of Medicine
660 South Euclid
St. Louis, MO 63110-1093
Telephone:
314.362.4641
Fax:
314.362-2693
Office:
2236 Shriners
e-mail:
sclimer at cse.wustl.edu (replace "at" with @)
Hours:
By appointment

Course information:

Coursework
Class homeworks, projects, notes, and slides can be downloaded here.

Prerequisites
CSE 132, CSE 240, and CSE 241, or consent.

Textbook
Russell and Norvig. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, 2nd edition. Prentice Hall.

Time/place
5:30 to 7:30 PM, Tuesdays and Thursdays
January 10A

Grades
The grade will be based on programming and homework assignments, a final project, a midterm exam, and a comprehensive final exam. The distribution of grades will be as follows:
Assignments 25%
Final project 20%
Midterm 25%
Final exam 30%

Exam dates
Midterm: July 05, 2007
Final exam: August 02, 2007

Topics
Introduction to AI
Intelligent agents
Problem solving via search
Constraint satisfaction
Linear Programs
Game playing
Logical and probabilistic reasoning
Planning
Machine learning
Machine vision
Applications in bioinformatics

Misc.
Failure to hand in an assignment will result in an automatic zero for that assignment. If a student is unable to hand in an assignment by the deadline, he/she must discuss it with me before the deadline.

Academic Integrity cover sheets must be submitted with each assignment. These forms can be downloaded here.

The syllabus can be downloaded here.

The code repository for the textbook can be accessed at http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu.