Required readings come directly from the course lecture notes.

Additional reading can be found

in the following text:
Russell, Stuart J., and Peter Norvig. Artificial intelligence: a modern approach. 2nd edition.
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2003. ISBN: 0137903952. (AIMA2E).
See the table for assigned and supplemental readings.
Course readings.
SES #

TOPICS

READINGS
Assigned Readings:
Lecture Notes - Chapter 1.

L1

Introduction
Supplemental Readings:
AIMA2E: Chapter 1.

R1

Scheme Review and Matching

Assigned Readings:
Lecture Notes - Chapter 2.

L2

Search
Supplemental Readings:
AIMA2E: Chapter 3 (Sec 3.1-3.5).
Assigned Readings:
Lecture Notes - Chapter 2.

L3

Search (cont.)
Supplemental Readings:
AIMA2E: Chapter 4 (Sec 4.1-4.3).

R2

Searches
Assigned Readings:
Lecture Notes - Chapter 3.

L4

Constraint Satisfaction
Supplemental Readings:

L5

Games

AIMA2E: Chapter 5.
Assigned Readings:
Lecture Notes - Chapter 3.

Course readings.
SES #

TOPICS

READINGS
Supplemental Readings:
AIMA2E: Chapter 6 (Sec 6.1-6.3).

R3

CSP and Games

Assigned Readings:

L6

Learning as Search
Lecture Notes - Chapter 4.
Assigned Readings:

L7

Formulating Search
Lecture Notes - Chapter 4.

R4

Design Project 1
Assigned Readings:
Lecture Notes - Chapter 5.

L8

Decision Trees
Supplemental Readings:
AIMA2E: Chapter 18 (Sec 18.1-18.3).
Assigned Readings:
Lecture Notes - Chapter 5.

L9

Nave Bayes
Supplemental Readings:
AIMA2E: Chapter 18 (Sec 18.1-18.3).

R5
Q1

Design Project 1 Presentation and QuestionAnswer

Quiz 1
Assigned Readings:
Lecture Notes - Chapter 6.

L10

Continuous Features
Supplemental Readings:
AIMA2E: Chapter 20 (Sec 20.4).

R6
L11

Nave Bayes and Nearest Neighbor

Linear Separators

Assigned Readings:
Lecture Notes - Chapter 7.
Supplemental Readings:

Course readings.
SES #

TOPICS

READINGS
AIMA2E: Chapter 20 (Sec 20.5-20.6).
Assigned Readings:
Lecture Notes - Chapter 7.

L12

Neural Nets
Supplemental Readings:
AIMA2E: Chapter 20 (Sec 20.5-20.6).

R7

SVM
Assigned Readings:
Lecture Notes - Chapter 8.

L13

SVM
Supplemental Readings:
AIMA2E: Chapter 20 (Sec 20.5-20.6).
Assigned Readings:
Lecture Notes - Chapter 8.

L14

Feature and Model Selection

Supplemental Readings:
AIMA2E: Chapter 20 (Sec 20.5-20.6).

R8
Q2
L15
R9

Problem Set 6
Quiz 2
Formulating Learning
Introduction to Logic

L16

Introduction to Logic and Representation

Assigned Readings:
Lecture Notes - Chapter 9.
Assigned Readings:
Lecture Notes - Chapter 9.
L17

Propositional Logic
Supplemental Readings:
AIMA2E: Chapter 7 (Sec 7.1-7.5).

R10
L18
R11
L19

Design Project 2 Presentation and QuestionAnswer

Introduction to Natural Language Processing
Logic and Proof
First Order Logic

Assigned Readings:

Course readings.
SES #

TOPICS

READINGS
Lecture Notes - Chapter 10.
Supplemental Readings:
AIMA2E: Chapter 8 (Sec 8.1-8.3).
Assigned Readings:
Lecture Notes - Chapter 10.

L20

First Order Logic (cont.)

Supplemental Readings:
AIMA2E: Chapter 9 (Sec 9.1, 9.2,
9.5).

R12

Syntax and Semantics

Assigned Readings:
Lecture Notes - Chapter 11.

L21

Rules
Supplemental Readings:
AIMA2E: Chapter 9 (Sec 9.4).
Assigned Readings:
Lecture Notes - Chapter 12.

L22

Language
Supplemental Readings:
AIMA2E: Chapter 22 (Sec 22.1-22.5).

R13

Problem Set 9
Assigned Readings:
Lecture Notes - Chapter 12.

L23

Language
Supplemental Readings:
AIMA2E: Chapter 22 (Sec 22.1-22.5).

L24

Conclusion
Final Exam