Raj Venkat
Assistant Teaching Professor
Raj Venkat
Assistant Teaching Professor
RESEARCH
- Genetic Privacy
- Adversarial Machine Learning
- Optimization
- Graph Theory & Networks
- Natural Language Processing
What is CS4100 all about?
What is CS4100 all about?
Computers are dumb...
...but we can make them do incredibly clever things
Let's take a look!
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Where did it all start?
Can Machines Think?
Alan Turing, 1950
Thinking = symbol manipulation
"Intelligence can be replicated
using a computer program"
- Mathematicians in the 1950s
"Intelligence can be replicated
using a computer program"
- Mathematicians in the 1950s
- Mathematicians in the 1950s
1956, Dartmouth College, workshop on AI
"The conjecture that every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can be,
in principle, so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it"
What are some examples of intelligent tasks?
What is an intelligent agent?
A system or program
that perceives and interacts with its environment
while making informed decisions
to achieve a certain goal or maximize some utility
AI through the lens of games & puzzles!
This course covers:
Search, planning, constraint-satisfaction
Dealing with uncertainty
Machine learning, deep learning & RL
Ethics of AI
LOGISTICS
The TA Team
Philip Yao
Srijha Kalyan
Bavesh Matapathi
Course website:
venkat.prof/CS4100
Textbook
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
Russel and Norvig (Pearson, 4th Ed.)
Components
4 Homework Assignments (50%)
Final Project (40%)
(15% for presentation, 20% for final report, 5% for peer review)Pop Quizzes (10%)
Grading
Note open and closed intervals
| A | [93, 100] |
| A- | [90, 93) |
| B+ | [87, 90) |
| B | [82, 87) |
| B- | [80, 82) |
| C+ | [77, 80) |
| C | [72, 77) |
| C- | [70, 72) |
| D+ | [67, 70) |
| D | [62, 67) |
| D- | [60, 62) |
| F | [0, 60) |
Policies - Homework Submissions
Written (typed) submissions: Gradescope
Programming submissions: GitHub
Deadlines: 11:59 pm on the due date
Conceptual discussions encouraged, disclose your collaborators
Grades released on Gradescope
Regrade Requests: submit within 1 week of receiving grade
Late Policy
You have 1 freebie - one week extension on a single homework, no questions asked.
If you use less than 48 hours, you can use upto 5 remaining days on a different assignment.
Cannot be used for project report or presentations.
If you have accomodations through the DRC, get the notification letter sent ASAP.
Life happens, come talk to me!
Policy on Generative AI
For programming assignments, use whatever you'd like.
For written assignments, the use of generative AI is prohibited.*
*If you use gen AI only to rephrase for writing clarity,
you must submit an appendix with your original answers.
Academic Integrity
Don't post your solutions anywhere!
Don't discuss code or actual written answers
Disclose your collaborators, cite your sources
Violations will lead to an OSCCR report being filed
Additional penalties, including failing the course
without the option to withdraw
Classroom Policies
Don't be late
Bring a laptop/tablet*
No phones please!
Be respectful
Don't distract your classmates
24/7 Discussion Forum
Campuswire
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