Now updated for 2009 - lecture content/order may however be varied.
Some of these notes are in PDF or Postscript format. If you are unfamiliar with these formats, see the bottom of this page.
| Green background means up-to-date for 2009. |
| Pale green background means not yet updated for 2009. |
| Purple background means the material is for COMP9814 students, and up-to-date for 2009. |
| Light purple background means the material is for COMP9814 students, not up-to-date for 2009. |
| Week | Lecture Date | Topic | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | no lecture | Course Introduction (html). Read this in week 0. If you have questions, email or phone them to the Course Coordinator: link to contact details | ||
| 10 Mar 2009
|
Intro to Artificial Intelligence (print off a copy if desired) | Introduction to Prolog Programming (print off a copy before 1st lecture) | ||
| 9 Mar 2009 | No lecture - extension lectures start in week 2. | |||
| 17 Mar 2009
|
Rules and
Semantic Nets & Frames | | ||
| 16 Mar 2009 | Extension Prolog Notes (weeks 2-3) (html) | |||
| 24 Mar 2009
| Problem Solving and Search (ps slides)
(pdf slides) | Uninformed Search (ps slides) (pdf slides) (print off copies of the lecture notes and the exercise sheet for Week 3) Depth first search in Prolog Breadth first search in Prolog 8 Puzzle in Prolog | ||
| 23 Mar 2009 | Extension Prolog continued | |||
| 31 Mar 2009
| Informed Search (ps slides)
(pdf slides)
A* search in Prolog
| Intelligent Agents (ps slides) (pdf slides) Assignment 2 (ps) (pdf) | ||
| 30 Mar 2009 | Constraint Satisfaction Problems (Russell & Norvig: Chapters 5, 4.3) | |||
| 7 Apr 2009
| Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (ps slides)
(pdf slides) | Propositional Logic: Automated Reasoning (ps slides) (pdf slides) Background reading from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Sections 1-4) (also print off the exercise sheet for Week 5) | ||
| 6 Apr 2009 | Axiom Systems for Propositional Logic (ps slides) (pdf slides) | |||
| "Mid"-session break week | ||||
| 21 Apr 2009
| First-Order Logic (ps slides)
(pdf slides) | Logic and Prolog (ps slides) (pdf slides) (also print off the exercise sheet for Week 6) | ||
| 20 Apr 2009 | Logic Programming and Resolution (Handouts supplied) | |||
| 28 Apr 2009
| Reasoning Under Uncertainty (ps slides)
(pdf slides) | (also print off the exercise sheet for Week 7) | ||
| 27 Apr 2009 | The Monty Hall Problem (Handouts supplied) | |||
| 5 May 2009
| Intro to Natural Language Processing + Syntax (pdf) | Grammars and Parsing (pdf) | ||
| 4 May 2009 | Planning (ps slides) (pdf slides) | |||
| 12 May 2009
|
Features and Augmented Grammars (html) (we started on this topic in week 8) | Logical Form (html) | ||
| 11 May 2009 | Extension: Ambiguity Resolution - Statistical Methods (html) (weeks 9+10) | |||
| 19 May 2009
|
Semantic Interpretation (html)
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| 18 May 2009 | Ambiguity Resolution continued | |||
| 26 May 2009
|
Machine Learning:
Error Backpropagation Learning (html) | Machine Learning: Decision Tree Induction (ID3) (html) | ||
| 25 May 2009 | Interactive Activation and Competition Networks (html) | |||
| 2 Jun 2009
| Revision:
Revision exercises/sample exam questions (html) for material lectured by Bill. | Exam cover sheet 1 Jun 2009 |
Extension revision exercises/sample exam questions (html) for material
lectured by Bill.
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| Purple background means the material is for COMP9814 students. |
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