CS511: Artificial Intelligence II

CS511, Bing Liu, UIC 2 General Information Instructor: Bing Liu   Tel: (312)  Office: SEO 931 Course Call Number: Lecture time slots:  2:00-2:50pm, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Room: 219 BSB Office hours: 2:00pm-3:30pm, Monday & Wed (or by appointment)

CS511, Bing Liu, UIC 3 Course structure The course has three parts:  Lectures - Introduction to the main topics  Programming projects To be demonstrated to me  Research paper presentation A list of papers will be given Lecture slides will be made available at the course web page

CS511, Bing Liu, UIC 4 Programming projects Two programming projects You will demonstrate your programs to me to show that they work

CS511, Bing Liu, UIC 5 Grading Final Exam: 40% Midterm: 30%  1 midterm Projects: 20%  2 programming assignments. Research paper presentation (10%)

CS511, Bing Liu, UIC 6 Prerequisites Knowledge of  CS411  algorithms

CS511, Bing Liu, UIC 7 Teaching materials Reference books  Artificial Intellgence: A Modern Approach, Second edition, by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig,  Expert Systems: Principles and Programming. By Giarratano and Riley, ISBN  Machine Learning, by Tom M. Mitchell, McGraw-Hill, ISBN

CS511, Bing Liu, UIC 8 Topics Introduction Constraint satisfaction problems Introduction to uncertainty handling Machine learning AI and the Web Summary

CS511, Bing Liu, UIC 9 Any questions and suggestions? Your feedback is most welcome!  I need it to adapt the course to your needs. Share your questions and concerns with the class – very likely others may have the same. No pain no gain – no magic  The more you put in, the more you get  Your grades are proportional to your efforts.

CS511, Bing Liu, UIC 10 Rules and Policies Statute of limitations: No grading questions or complaints, no matter how justified, will be listened to one week after the item in question has been returned. Cheating: Cheating will not be tolerated. All work you submitted must be entirely your own. Any suspicious similarities between students' work will be recorded and brought to the attention of the Dean. The MINIMUM penalty for any student found cheating will be to receive a 0 for the item in question, and dropping your final course grade one letter. The MAXIMUM penalty will be expulsion from the University. Late assignments: Late assignments will not, in general, be accepted. They will never be accepted if the student has not made special arrangements with me at least one day before the assignment is due. If a late assignment is accepted it is subject to a reduction in score as a late penalty.