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Unless otherwise noted, the readings below are from the course textbook:
COURSE HOME Winston, Patrick Henry. Artificial Intelligence. 3rd ed. Addison-Wesley, 1992. ISBN: 9780201533774.
Additional resources, where relevant, are listed with the respective Lecture Videos under the "Related Resources" tab.
SYLLABUS
LEC # TOPICS READINGS

1 Introduction and scope

CALENDAR
Reasoning: goal trees and
2 Application: Symbolic Integration, p. 61.
problem solving

INSTRUCTOR Reasoning: goal trees and rule-

3 Chapter 3, pp. 53–60.
INSIGHTS based expert systems

Search: depth-first, hill

4 Chapter 4
climbing, beam
READINGS
Search: optimal, branch and
5 Chapter 5
bound, A*
LECTURE
Search: games, minimax, and
VIDEOS 6 Chapter 6
alpha-beta

Constraints: interpreting line

7 Chapter 12
drawings
MEGA-
RECITATION Constraints: search, domain
8
VIDEOS reduction

Constraints: visual object

9 Chapter 26
recognition
TUTORIALS
Introduction to learning, nearest
10 Chapter 19
neighbors
ASSIGNMENTS
Learning: identification trees,
11 Chapter 21
disorder

EXAMS Learning: neural nets, back

12 Neural net notes (PDF)
propagation

13 Learning: genetic algorithms Chapter 25

DEMONSTRATIONS
Learning: sparse spaces, Yip, Kenneth, and Gerald Jay Sussman. "Sparse Representations for Fast,
14
phonology One-Shot Learning." (PDF)
DOWNLOAD
COURSE Learning: near misses, felicity
15 Chapter 16
conditions
MATERIALS
Learning: support vector
16 Support vector machine slides (PDF)
machines

Boosting notes (PDF) (Courtesy of Patrick Winston and Luis Ortiz. Used
with permission.)
17 Learning: boosting Schapire, Robert. "The Boosting Approach to Machine Learning: An
Overview." MSRI Workshop on Nonlinear Estimation and Classification,
2002. (PDF)

Representations: classes,
18 Chapter 9
trajectories, transitions

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LEC # TOPICS READINGS

Lehman, Jill, John Laird, and Paul Rosenbloom. "A Gentle Introduction to
Soar, An Architecture for Human Cognition: 2006 Update." (PDF)

Architectures: GPS, SOAR, Brooks, Rodney. "Intelligence Without Representation." Artificial

19 Intelligence 47 (1991): 139–59.
Subsumption, Society of Mind
Winston, Patrick Henry. "S3, Taking Machine Intelligence to the Next,
Much Higher Level." (PDF)

20 The AI business

21 Probabilistic inference I

22 Probabilistic inference II Probabilistic inference notes (PDF)

Coen, Michael. "Self-Supervised Acquisition of Vowels in American

Model merging, cross-modal
23 English." (PDF - 4.8MB) AAAI Proceedings of the 21st National
coupling, course summary
Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2 (2006).

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