| Week | Topic | Notes | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Course Overview Prolog revision |
What is AI? (slides:
PostScript ,
PDF version) |
Study Guide ch. 1 AIMA ch. 1 |
| 2 - 3 | Search and Problem Solving |
Uninformed Search: Breadth-first, Depth-First Iterative Deepening Uniform-cost PDF, PostScript Informed Search: Greedy, A* PDF, PostScript |
Study Guide ch. 3 Russell and Norvig chs. 3, 4 Bratko ch. 11 |
| 4 - 5 |
Knowledge Representation and Logic |
Deductive databases
PDF,
PostScript
Knowledge-based systems slides PDF, PostScript figures PDF, PostScript Propositional Logic and Proof theory PDF, PDF figures, PostScript |
Study Guide ch 4 CJ Date, Introduction to Database Systems, ch 23 (optional) Bratko chs 15 - 16 (2nd ed: 14 - 15)or Russell and Norvig chs to be announced Hodges sections 16-23, 25, 34-40. |
| 6 | Reading Week | ||
| 7 | Logic (cont.) |
Predicate Calculus PDF, PostScript |
As weeks 4 - 5. | 8-10 |
Predicate calculus (cont.) Natural Language |
Natural language and formal languages slides: PostScript , PDF; figure: PostScript , PDF Grammars and Parsing Deductive Parsing Context-free Grammars slides: PostScript , PDF Natural Language Semantics |
Study Guide ch. 6 AIMA ch. 22 Bratko ch. 21 Clocksin and Mellish ch. 9 |
| 10-11 |
Philosophy of AI Revision |
Turing Test, Chinese Room PostScript , PDF |
Study Guide ch. 7 Russell and Norvig ch. 26 Computing Machinery and Intelligence by Alan Turing Is the Brain a Digital Computer? by John Searle |