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Informatics 2D: Timetable

• Lectures are held at 15.00-15.50 on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays in Lecture Theatre 5, Appleton Tower.
• The slides for each lecture will be linked to its title in the table below. Please note that they might still be updated in the future, so the final versions will only be available after the respective lecture.
• Note that there are no lecture notes for the course. Instead, recommended reading is associated with each lecture. Unless otherwise stated, this reading is from the set book for the course

  “Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach” Third Edition, Russell R & Norvig P, Prentice Hall, 2010 (R&N).

Note: The section numbers under recommended reading on this page currently refer to the second edition of Russell & Norvig. We will update the recommended reading to the third edition very soon. Apologies for the inconvenience!

Date Title Recommended reading

1. Week 1

   Tues17/01/12 1. Intelligent Agents (2x2) R&N Chapter 2
2. Thurs 19/01/12 2. Logical Agents: Knowledge Bases and the Wumpus World (2x2) R&N Sections 7.1-7.5
3. Fri 20/01/12 3. Effective Propositional Inference (2x2) R&N Sections 7.5-7.7

4. Week 2

   Tues 24/01/12 4. Problem Solving by Searching (2x2) R&N Sections 3.1-3.3
5. Thurs 26/01/12 5. Search Strategies (2x2) R&N Sections 3.3, 3.4, 3.7
6. Fri 27/01/12 6. Adversarial Search (2x2) R&N Sections 5.1-5.4

7. Week 3

   Tues 31/01/12 7. Smart Searching using Constraints (2x2) R&N Sections 6.1-6.3
8. Thurs 02/02/12 8. Informed Search and Exploration for Agents (2x2) R&N Sections 3.5-3.6
9. Fri03/02/12 9. First Order Logic (2x2) R&N Chapter 8

10. Week 4

    Tues 07/02/12 10. Introduction to Coursework 1 (2x2) Coursework 1
11. Thurs 09/02/12 11. Haskell Refresher for Coursework 1 (2x2) Code from the lecture
12. Fri 10/02/12 12. Unification and Generalized Modus Ponens (2x2) R&N Sections 9.1-9.2

13. Week 5

    Tues 14/02/12 13. Resolution-based Inference (2x2) R&N Sections 9.3-9.6
14. Thurs 16/02/12 14. Situation Calculus (2x2) R&N Section 10.3 from the 2nd Edition
15. Fri 17/02/12 15. TBA

16. Week 6

    Tues 21/02/12 No Lecture
17. Thurs 23/02/12 No Lecture
18. Fri 24/02/12 No Lecture

19. Week 7

    Tues 28/02/12 16. Introduction to Planning (2x2) R&N Sections 10.1
20. Mon27/02/12 — Deadline for Coursework 1, at 14:00
21. Thurs 01/03/12 17. State-space Search and Partial-order Planning (2x2) R&N Sections 10.2, 10.4 and from the 2nd Edition Section 11.3
22. Fri 02/03/12 18. Planning and Acting in the Real World I (2x2) R&N Sections 11.3, 4.3

23. Week 8

    Tues 06/03/12 19. Planning and Acting in the Real World II (2x2) R&N Section 11.2
24. Thurs 08/03/12 20. Acting under Uncertainty (2x2) R&N Sections 13.1-13.2
25. Fri09/03/12 21. Introduction to Coursework 2 Coursework 2

26. Week 9

    Tues 13/03/12 22. Probabilities and Bayes' Rule (2x2) R&N Sections 13.3-13.5
27. Thurs 15/03/12 23. Probabilistic Reasoning with Bayesian Networks (2x2) R&N Sections 14.1-14.3
28. Fri 16/03/12 24. Exact Inference in Bayesian Networks (2x2) R&N Section 14.4

29. Week 10

    Tues 20/03/12 25. Approximate Inference in Bayesian Networks (2x2) R&N Section 14.5
30. Thurs 22/03/12 26. Time and Uncertainty I (2x2) R&N Section 15.1-15.2
31. Fri23/03/12 27. Time and Uncertainty II (2x2) R&N Section 15.2-15.3
32. Fri23/03/12 — Deadline for Coursework 2, at 14:00

33. Week 11

    Tues 27/03/12 28. Dynamic Bayesian Networks (2x2) R&N Section 15.5
34. Thurs 28/03/12 29. Decision Making under Uncertainty (2x2) R&N Sections 16.1-16.3, 16.5
35. Fri 30/03/12 30. Markov Decision Processes (2x2) R&N Sections 17.1-17.3