Computer Science

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DISCLAIMER:  Items on this schedule are subject to change.  I'll try and remember to let you know when something changes, but you are ultimately responsible for checking the schedule.  My primary means of announcing changes will be messages posted on Blackboard, but I will also make announcements in class.  Be sure to check out the notes at the bottom of the page.  Any changes from the original schedule are highlighted in BOLD RED.

Due Dates at a Glance

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Sept 1			Assignment 0
Sept 8			Assignment 1
Sept 15		Potential Fields Lab
Sept 22	Assignment 2
Sept 29
Oct 6	Assignment 3	Exam 1
Oct 13		Search Lab
Oct 20	Assignment 4
Oct 27	Assignment 5			Grid Filter Lab
Nov 3	Assignment 6			Exam 2
Nov 10 Exam 2	Exam 2
Nov 17	Kalman Filter Lab		Assignment 7
Nov 24	VIRTUAL FRIDAY		THANKSGIVING
Dec 1	Multiple Agents Lab
Dec 8	Assignment 8		Final Lab
Dec 15		Final Exam 7AM - 10AM in class

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Schedule

DATE	READING	TOPIC	HOMEWORK	LABS
Sept  2	Chapter 1	Introduction & Class Policies	Assignment 0 (due Sept 4) @ 1.5 hours
Sept 4	Secs 25.1-25.2, and 25.6-25.7 & Online Potential Fields Tutorial (in pdf) & MATLAB PD controller tutorial	Robots: PD Controllers & Potential Fields		Potential Fields Lab and code (due Sept 17) @ 20 hours
Sept 9	Chapter 2 & Online Tutorial	Agents, Intelligence, and Terminology	Assignment 1 (due Sept 11) @ 2.5 hours
Sept 11	Secs 3.1-3.5 Sec 25.4	Uninformed Search Roadmaps and obstacle inflation
Sept 16	Secs 4.1-4.2 & Online tutorial (A* and UCS example) in postscript & pdf	Informed Search		Search Lab (due Oct 15) @ 20 hours
Sept 18	Secs 4.3-4.5 Wikipedia topics: "partial derivative" and "gradient"	Local Search	Assignment 2 (due Sept 23) @ 3 hours
Sept 23	Secs 5.1-5.3 and N-Queens MATLAB file	Constraint Satisfaction Problems
Sept 25	Secs 13.1-13.3 & Online Tutorial secs 1-3	Probability Spaces Probability Axioms Random Variables
Sept 30	13.4-13.6  and MATLAB tutorial	Joint & Conditional Distributions Bayes Rule	Assignment 3 (due Oct 2*) @ 2 hours (You'll turn this HW in for credit on Oct 7, but I expect it done on Oct 2 before class so that we can discuss it.)
Oct 2		Joint, conditional, Bayes rule continued
Oct 7	Review sheet	Exam Review
Oct 8-10	Exam 1 in Testing Center
Oct 9	No Class
Oct 14	Sec 15.1-15.3 Grid filter in MATLAB	Temporal Inference, Markov Processes, and Grid Filters
Oct 16	class handout	Grid Filters continued	Assignment 4 (due Oct 21) @ 1hour	Grid filter lab and code (Due Oct 31) @ 20 hours
Oct 21	14.1-14.2	Chain rule, conditional independence, Bayesian networks	Assignment 5 (due Oct 28) @ 2hours
Oct 23	First part of 14.3	Canonical Bayesian networks
Oct 28	Sec 15.4 Kalman filter demo in MATLAB	Kalman Filters: state spaces, models, noise	Assignment 6 (due Nov 6) @ 2.5 hours
Oct 30		Kalman Filters continued: equations, interpretation, tuning		Kalman Filter Lab (due November 18) @ 20 hours
Nov 4	16.1 - 16.3	Preferences, utility, expected utility	Assignment 7 [Don't do problem 4]. (due Nov 20) @ 2 hours
Nov 6	Review sheet	Exam review
Nov 7-11	Exam 2 in Testing Center
Nov 11	16.4, 17.1-17.2	Multi-attribute utility, making complex decisions	Assignment 7 [Just do problem 4]. (due Nov 20) @ 0.5 hours
Nov 13	17.2 - 17.3	Making complex decisions, value iteration
Nov 18		No Class -- travel day
Nov 20		Discuss final labs		Multiple Agents Lab (due December 2) @ 20 hours
Nov 25	Virtual Friday NO CLASS
Nov 27	Thanksgiving NO CLASS
Dec 2	17.2-17.3	Value and policy iteration	Assignment 8 (due Dec 9) @ 3 hours	Final Lab and Tournament  (due Dec 11) @ 20 hours Frequently Asked Questions
Dec 4	pgs 775-777 and wikipedia entry	Q-learning
Dec 9	6.1-6.4	Games and alpha-beta pruning
Dec 11	Review and catch up
Dec 12	Class Tournament During First Reading Day
Dec 17 Wednesday	Review Sheet Final Exam 7:00-10:00 AM In Class

Note 1: Count on about two to three hours of work per day in addition to class time, so between six and nine hours of work outside of class each week. I've tried to create some estimates of the amount of time each assignment and lab will take, but you should remember that these are only estimates.  If you find that I am consistently underestimating the time you spend, please let me know.

Note 2: Each week a homework assignment is due, a lab must be passed off, or an exam must be taken.  There are very few weeks where multiple things must be completed and very few weeks where nothing is due.  I've worked hard to balance workload across the semester, but you will not benefit from this unless you start labs early.