1
CS 188: Artificial Intelligence
Spring 2011
Lecture 1: Introduction
1/19/2011
Pieter Abbeel – UC Berkeley
Many slides from Dan Klein.
Course Information
Communication:
Announcements on webpage
Questions? Try piazzza!
If not suitable for piazzza, staff email: cs188-staff@lists.berkeley.edu
Office hours: see website for schedule
http://inst.cs.berkeley.edu/~cs188
Course Staff
Course Staff
Pieter Abbeel
GSIs
Professor
Arjun
Singh
Jon
Barron
John
Duchi
Lubomir
Bourdev
Course Information
Book: Russell & Norvig, AI: A Modern Approach, 3
rd
Slides
Prerequisites:
(CS 61A or B) and (Math 55 or CS 70)
Strongly recommended: CS61A, CS61B and CS70
There will be a lot of math and programming
Self diagnostic
Work and Grading:
5 programming projects: Python, groups of 1-2
5 late days, 2 per project
4 written assignments: solve together, write-up alone
Midterm: March 16, 6-9pm (tentatively)
Final: May 13, 11:30-2:30pm
Participation
Fixed scale
Academic integrity policy
Contests!
Announcements
• Important this week:
• P0: Python tutorial going out on Thursday --- due next week
Friday
• One time lab hours next week (specifics TBD)
• Get your account forms in front after class
• P1: Search, going out on Monday --- due Friday 2/3
• Also important:
• Sections start next week. You may change sections, but you
have seating priority where you are registered. New section
coming?
• The Waiting list will take a while to sort out. We don’t control
enrollment. Contact Michael-David Sasson (msasson@cs) with
any questions on the process.
Today
What is artificial intelligence?
What can AI do?
What is this course?