Artificial Intelligence with Web Applications

Lecturer: Dell Zhang
Programme: BSc ISM and BSc ISC
Time: Thursday evenings 6pm - 9pm
Room: Westminster Kingsway College (The King's Cross Centre) K106 [Room Description] [BBK-DCS Teaching Map]
Code: COIY033H6
Document: Module Specification Module Amendment

Textbook

	Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig, *Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach*, 3rd edition, Prentice Hall, 2010. Companion Website Code and Data
	Toby Segaran, *Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications*, O'Reilly Media, 2007. Companion Website Code and Data

Syllabus

Week	Date	Lecture	Wikipedia
1	06/10/2011	AI Chapter 1: Introduction to AI [slides] [video] [demo]	Artifical Intelligence Turing Test Collective Intelligence
1	06/10/2011	AI Chapter 2: Intelligent Agents [slides] [video] [video]	Intelligent Agents
2	13/10/2011	AI Chapter 3a: Solving Problems by Searching (Uninformed Search etc.) [slides] [demo] [demo] [demo] [game] [game] [classwork-p] [classwork-s]	BFS UCS DFS DLS IDS BDS
3	20/10/2011	AI Chapter 3b: Solving Problems by Searching (Heuristic Search etc.) [slides] [demo] [demo] [demo] [game] [game] [classwork-p] [classwork-s]	Greedy Search A* Search
4	27/10/2011	AI Chapter 4 and CI Chapter 5 and CI Section 12.9: Beyond Classical Search (Local Search and Optimisation Methods etc.) [slides] [video] [demo] [demo] [demo] [game] [toolkit]	Hill Climbing Simulated Annealing Genetic Algorithm
5	03/11/2011	AI Chapter 5: Adversarial Search (Games etc.) [slides] [demo] [game] [game] [classwork-p] [classwork-s]	Minimax Algorithm Alpha-Beta Pruning
6	10/11/2011	AI Chapter 6: Constraint Satisfaction Problems [slides] [demo] [demo] [demo] [game] [classwork-p]	Constraint Satisfaction Backtracking Look-ahead Arc Consistency
7	17/11/2011	AI Chapter 18a and CI Chapter 1: Learning from Examples (Inductive Learning) [slides]	Machine Learning Supervised Learning Classification
7	17/11/2011	AI Chapter 18b and CI Chapter 7 and CI Section 12.2: Decision Trees (for Classification) [slides] [demo] [demo] [toolkit] [classwork-p] [classwork-s]	Decision Tree Decision Tree Learning
8	24/11/2011	Reading Week [No Lecture] Exercises: AINN 09/10 Exam Paper: Question 1, 2, 4, 5.
9	01/12/2011	AI Chapter 18c anc CI Chapter 4 and CI Section 12.3: Neural Networks (for Classification) [slides] [demo] [demo] [classwork-p] [classwork-s]	Artificial Neural Network Perceptron Gradient Descent Backpropagation Learning
10	08/12/2011	AI Chapter 18d and CI Chapter 8 and CI Section 12.5: k-Nearest Neighbours (for Classification) [slides] [demo] [demo] [classwork-p] [classwork-s]	Instance-Based Learning kNN Algorithm Euclidean Distance
10	08/12/2011	CI Chapter 2: Making Recommendations (Collaborative Filtering) [slides] [dataset]	Recommender System Collaborative Filtering
11	15/12/2011	CI Chapter 3 anc CI Section 12.6: Discovering Groups (Clustering) [slides] [demo]	Unsupervised Learning Clustering
11	15/12/2011	AI Chapter 26 & 27: Philosophical and Social Implications of AI [slides] [video] [video]	Philosophy of AI Ethics of AI Chinese Room
--	Thursday 26/04/2012 6pm - 9pm	Revision Lecture 1 at MAL 541 [BBK-DCS Teaching Map] AINN 05/06 Exam Paper AINN 06/07 Exam Paper AINN 07/08 Exam Paper
--	Thursday 03/05/2012 6pm - 9pm	Revision Lecture 2 at MAL 541 [BBK-DCS Teaching Map] AINN 08/09 Exam Paper AINN 09/10 Exam Paper AIWA 10/11 Exam Paper

Assessment

Coursework: 20%
Part 1 (10%) due date: Thu 10/11/2011 [solution]
Part 2 (10%) due date: Thu 22/12/2011 [solution]
Please submit your solutions in electronic form through the Blackboard system.

Examination: 80%
Past exam papers can be found at Birkbeck eLibrary.