Instructor: Giuseppe Carenini

Office: CICSR #129     Phone: 822-5109     Email: carenini at cs.ubc.ca

    Giuseppe's Office Hours: Thurs 11-12

Teaching Assistant: Shafiq Joty  Email: rjoty at cs.ubc.ca

    Shafiq's Office Hours: Tues - Thurs 1-2pm (in ICICS 144 - west wing)

Course Description

This course is designed to be a "breadth" introduction to artificial intelligence. It will make a broad coverage of modern AI. It is suitable for those with no AI background , or with only one undergraduate course in AI (or Machine Learning). It is designed for computer science students, but is also suitable for cognitive science or engineering students or those with some familiarity with algorithms, complexity, logic, probability....

• For the first 9 or 10 weeks we will cover an overview of the material in lectures and assignments
   

• There will be a midterm on the material covered in class
   

• The last few weeks will cover current research topics presented by students
   

• Students will write a review paper based on the lecture they gave, and peer review the papers of other students

 

Readings, Grading, Syllabus, Assignments, Software&Data

Discussion Forum (Piazza)

Readings: what to do

Final Essay