Description

This course provides an overview of the field of Artificial Intelligence: foundations of symbolic intelligent systems, search, logic, knowledge representation, planning, learning.

General Information

Instructor
Dr. Sheila Tejada
Lecture
30080D Tuesday 6:00-8:50 pm in MHP 106
30304D Wednesday 6:00-8:50 pm in ZHS 159
30086D Thursday 6:00-8:50 pm in GFS 101
Office Hours
Monday 2-5pm
Tuesday/ Wednesday /Thursday: 4-5pm
and by appointment
Exams
Friday 4-5:50pm on October 11 and December 6 in SGM 123
Textbook
Russell and Norvig, Artificial Intelligence, A Modern Approach, 3rd Edition
See also http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/ for additional resources including
Code http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/code.html
Demos http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/demos.html

Announcements

Exam Seating Assignments in SGM 123 at 4pm today
12/06/13 3:42 PM

Hi Class,

This is the procedure for the exam today:

1. Check the list below for your assigned row for the exam.  There is a list posted in SGM 123 as well.

2. Please bring your student id card to be swiped in the front of the room by the TAs.

3. Leave your bag at the front of the room and only take a pen or pencil to your seat.

4. Choose a seat in your assigned row that is at least one seat apart from another student.  Do not sit in a seat next to another student.

5. At 4pm when everyone is seated the TAs will pass out the exam

6. Please do not look at the exam til I tell you to start

7. At 5:20pm I tell you to stop writing, please stay seated til the TAs collect your exam.

Good Luck!

Best,

Prof T

Last Name First Name Row Number (Row 1 = FRONT, four seat row)
Bagade Koustubh Prasanna Row 10
Briggs Donald Row 5
Butkyavichyus Dmitry Row 2
Cai Yue Row 4
Chandramouli Sabarish Row 3
Chandrashekar Sadruta Row 3
Chen Haoteng Row 9
Chen Jun Row 3
Chen Yilong Row 9
Clabaugh Caitlyn Row 3
Constantinou Giorgos Row 7
Dani Akshay Ramesh Row 9
Daptardar Mihir Row 8
Deo Gayatri Ramesh Row 4
Deri Aliya Row 6
Dev Kapil Row 6
Ding Lianyi Row 7
French Rayvionne Row 7
Gopal Karthik Row 6
Gu Jie Row 2
Gu Wanghai Row 2
Gumidelli Alekhya Row 2
Gupta Himanshu Row 3
Hamza Ameer Row 2
Hanumanth Arpitha Row 10
Irani Aashita Row 6
Jain Nikita Row 7
Jeong Seihyun Row 5
Jesudhason Samuel Abhishek Row 7
Ji Yujing Row 7
Jog Manas Row 3
Joseph Denis Row 7
Kancharla Naga Padmavathy Row 7
Kasbekar Saumil Uday Row 10
Kaushik Manushi Row 6
Kerns Connor Row 7
Khalsa Jaskaran Row 1
Khashkhashi Moghaddam Sima Row 8
Kim Woon Kee Row 6
Kulkarni Anagha Pradeep Row 4
Kulkarni Anoop Pradeep Row 10
Lao U Chun Row 3
Lee Youn Kyu Row 4
Li Hongzhi Row 10
Li Jialiang Row 7
Li Linkun Row 9
Li Yiwei Row 4
Li Zhen Row 9
Lin Panpan Row 10
Liu Chenguang Row 9
Liu Qinyuan Row 9
Lu Shubang Row 9
Meng Dejie Row 10
Mittal Arpit Row 8
Mittal Mehul Row 9
Morse Kristen Row 9
Nadig Chaitanya Row 8
Nalam Divya Row 10
Okuleye-Okwuedei Azuka Row 10
Parikh Ami Akshay Row 2
Parikh Monil Ashok Row 7
Parthasarathy Arjun Row 7
Patel Dineshkumar Row 9
Patel Jayam Umesh Row 4
Qiao Xinyuan Row 4
Rajkumar Aswin Row 7
Ravikumar Rahulraghavendiran Row 8
Sang Chenyin Row 2
Sarda Sagar Tarachand Row 3
Saxena Tushar Shishir Kumar Row 6
Shah Rushabh Row 10
Shamanur Anusha Bakkanna Row 5
Shambhat Preetham Row 2
Shankar Santosh Row 1
Shao Cong Row 9
Sheehan Michael Row 5
Shin Eric Row 6
Song Teng Row 3
Sukjunnimit Pongsakorn Row 8
Sun Shihao Row 9
Tang Yongxiang Row 4
Thippeswamy Sandeep Row 8
Tian Liang Row 4
Trigunayat Abhishek Row 4
Vaidya Amey Nandkumar Row 5
Vaishnav Priyanka Sathyanarayan Row 10
Vazirabadkar Chetan Row 5
Venkataraman Bhargav Row 5
Venkataraman Shanthoosh Row 2
Wan Runxia Row 8
Wang Bohan Row 3
Wang Lifei Row 10
Wang Mengying Row 4
Wang Mingjian Row 8
Wang Qiang Row 9
Wang Sida Row 5
Wang Weizhi Row 6
Wang Xuejiao Row 8
Wang Yang Row 4
Wang Zichuan Row 8
Williams Kaleb Row 10
Wong Kristopher Row 6
Xiang Feiyi Row 3
Xie Guocheng Row 3
Xu Yue Row 5
Yan Xuzhou Row 2
Yang Nan Row 2
Ye Haishan Row 7
Yeduguru Venkata Dinesh Reddy Row 5
Yerou Michalis Row 8
Yilmaz Serhat Row 7
Yu Fei Row 5
Yu Yawen Row 9
Yu Yuanliang Row 5
Yunus Hasi Ebrahim Izaaz Row 8
Zhang Chenxi Row 6
Zhang Jihua Row 5
Zhang Kaiqi Row 6
Zhang Ronghui Row 6
Zhang Tianxin Row 3
Zhang Yiran Row 8
Zhao Dongni Row 6
Zhao Rongshuang Row 6
Zhao Yanbo Row 5
Zheng Yicong Row 10
Zhou Yifan Row 5
Zhu Wenhai Row 4
Zong Wei Row 8

Exam2 Review Notes has been added to class homepage under Resources
12/05/13 12:03 AM

The teaching staff has posted a new lecture notes resource.

Title: Exam2 Review Notes
http://www.piazza.com/class_profile/get_resource/hkk986az9o618a/hotpsvs4lgf23m

Due date: Dec 3, 2013

You can view it on the course page: https://piazza.com/usc/fall2013/csci561a/resources

New Autograder for EC2 has been added to class homepage under Resources
12/04/13 5:41 PM

We used the updated autograder to grade your EC2. You can download it from the link below.

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The teaching staff has posted a new extra_credit_projects resource.

Title: New Autograder for EC2
http://www.piazza.com/class_profile/get_resource/hkk986az9o618a/hotc7ja0xx05q

Due date: Dec 4, 2013

You can view it on the course page: https://piazza.com/usc/fall2013/csci561a/resources

Before Final Grades
12/04/13 5:08 PM

Weighted total grades are up on Blackboard under the column "Weighted Total" at the bottom of the page.

We no longer take any grading questions. Please post a follow up to this post if you find any mistakes.

HW4 Grading Questions Wednesday 12-3pm in SAL 211
12/03/13 11:00 PM

Hi Class,

Grading questions session for HW4 is Wednesday btw 12-3pm in SAL 211.

Toy, Jiewen. Will and Jilay with be there to answer your questions.  Tomorrow will be

the last day to ask grading questions about the HW.

EC project scores will be posted by tomorrow.

Best,

Prof T

10 Extra Credit Pts for "Cheat Sheet"
12/02/13 3:46 PM

Hi Class,

For 10 extra credit points you may create a 2 page pdf with any material you would like to have when you take your exam.  We will search through all the submissions and if one looks good I will have it included in the exam.

Deadline is Thursday midnight to submit your "cheat sheet" for consideration and for extra credit.

Best,

Prof T

Exam 2 on Friday, December 6, 4-5:20pm in SGM 123
12/02/13 3:28 PM

Hi Class,

I hope you had a good break.  Exam2 will be on Friday, December 6, 4-5:20pm in SGM 123.  Some practice exam questions are posted on the piazza course page.  We will have a review in this week during lecture, where we will go over the practice exam questions.

  • Exam2 will cover the material discussed in class but not covered by Exam1.
  • Material from all 15 quizzes (quiz 6-10) starting at week 8 will be on the exam in some form.
  • Material from HW3 & HW4 will be on the exam in some form.
  • Material discussed in lecture starting from week 8-13 may be on the exam in some form.
  • These are the chapters from the book that were assigned: Chapter 10, 12, 13, 14, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22-27

Best,

Prof T

The teaching staff has posted a new practice_exams resource.

Title: Practice Exam2
http://www.piazza.com/class_profile/get_resource/hkk986az9o618a/hoqc0oajrm31h9

You can view it on the course page: https://piazza.com/usc/fall2013/csci561a/resources

EC3 Grading Rubric
12/01/13 1:49 AM

Staff Office Hours
NameOffice Hours
Prof. Tejada
When?
Where?
Zahra Nazari- TA
When?
Where?
TA: Eunkyung Kim
When?
Where?