Introduction to Artificial Intelligence with Applications to Public Health

Winter 2004 Readings

Week 1 (January 24): Overview

• Readings:
  
  • None
• Notes:
  • Lecture 1: Overview

Week 2 (January 31): Foundations

• Readings:
  • Artificial Intelligence: Preface, Chapters 1 and 2
  • Machines Who Think: Preface, Chapters 1, 2 and 3
  • Dive Into Python: Chapters 1 and 2
• Notes:
  • Lecture 2: Foundations of Machine Intelligence

Week 3 (February 7): Neural Networks

• Readings:
  • Artificial Intelligence: Chapter 3 (skim derivations in 3.2, 3.3)
  • Machines Who Think: Chapter 4
  • Dive Into Python: Chapter 3
• Notes:
  • Lecture 3: Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms

Week 4 (February 14): Search

• Readings:
  • Artificial Intelligence: Chapters 7, 8 and 9
  • Machines Who Think: Chapters 5 and 6
  • Dive Into Python: Chapter 4

Week 5 (February 21): Guest Lecture: Machine Learning

• Readings:
  • Artificial Intelligence: Chapter 4
  • Dive Into Python: Chapter 5

Week 6 (February 28): Guest Lecture: Public Health

• None

Week 7 (March 7): AI Programming

• Readings:
  • Artificial Intelligence: Chapter 12
  • Machines Who Think: Chapter 7
  • Dive Into Python: Chapter 6

Week 8 (March 14): (break / programming help session)

• Readings:
  • Dive Into Python: Chapter 7
• Notes:
  • Lecture 0: Programming in Python

Week 9 (March 21): Language

• Readings:
  • Artificial Intelligence: Chapters 5 and 24
  • Machines Who Think: Chapter 11
• Notes:
  • Lecture 9: Natural Language Understanding

Week 10 (March 28): Knowledge Representation (tentative)

• Readings:
  • Artificial Intelligence: Chapters 13, 14.1, 14.5, 15, 18 (14, 16 optional)

Week 11 (April 4): Expert Systems (tentative)

• Readings:
  • Artificial Intelligence: Chapters 17 and 19
  • Machines Who Think: Chapter 12

Week 12 (April 11): Data Mining (tentative)

• Readings:
  • Artificial Intelligence: Chapters 19 and 20
  • Machines Who Think: Afterword and Timeline

Week 13 (April 18): Robotics and Vision

• Readings:
  • Artificial Intelligence: Chapters 6 and 10 (21, 22 optional)
  • Machines Who Think: Chapters 10 and 11

Week 14 (April 25): Philosophy

• Readings:
  • Artificial Intelligence: Chapters 23 and 25
  • Machines Who Think: Chapters 8 ,9, 13, and 14

Week 15 (May 2): Review

• Readings:
  • None