CS 404

Artificial Intelligence

General Information

 

Instructor: Berrin Yanıkoğlu     Office: MDBF 2056   

 

Textbook: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (AIMA), by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig., 3rd edition. I will give homeworks from the 3rd edition. First edition or even 2nd are simpler and adequate (it is your responsibility to check the differences with the 3rd edition), if you happen to have those books passed on to you. Link to the book’s web page, where you can find some useful information: http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/

  

Important: Questions about homeworks etc should be asked at SUCourse discussion boards. The discussion board will be followed every night at least, so you will get an answer to your questions in about a day (often much sooner). Dont ask homework related questions on email, so that the TA’s answer to your question can be seen by everyone.

  

Homeworks: There will be 5 homeworks total, given approximately every other week and there will not be any project. 

 

Quizzes: 

·        There will be one quiz every week (4-5 questions, 10-12 minutes, 10-12 pts), at the end of the 2 hr class

·        Quiz grades will be scaled over QuizTotal*0.90. I.e if QuizTotal is 200 pts, 180 or above will map to 100 and linearly below that.

 

Exams General: 

 

·       There will be one midterm (8th week), one final and one make-up (after the final).

·       There will be oral exams after the midterm/final for a subset of the class (see rules below).

·       Exams will be with strictly proctored and any attempt to cheating will result in cancelling the exam altogether and taking an oral exam only + any disciplinary action.

·       The final exam will be in the final exam period (the University is scheduling exams but date not yet known). 

·       Only people who miss the final (report needed) or did not get a passing grade in the final can take the makeup. In the second case, the average of final and makeup will be counted as your final grade.

·       Those who miss the final exam need to have a documented excuse (medical emergency, death in immediate family) and advance warning.

 

Oral Exam Rules

·       Any person’s probability of being asked to attend the oral exam is 0.1 (10%).

·       Furthermore, anyone with questionable behavior during the exams or large difference between grades etc will be asked to take the oral part of the exam for sure.

·       If you take the oral exam and if there is a big drop in your oral grade with respect to your written midterm or final, the exam grade will the oral exam grade. (e.g. you have 90 on the midterm and 20 in the oral, your midterm grade will be 20).

o   Otherwise, we will take the weighted average of final and (roughly proportional to questions total). E.g. you have 90 on the midterm and 70 in the oral, your midterm grade will be 80.

 

Attendance

·       Attendance will be measured via Zoom polls or Top Hat quizzes.

·       These will be unannounced to break the lecture and see progress.

·       Attendance can be used as bonus for students near letter boundaries.

 

Grading: 

·        Final/Oral (35%) + Midterm (25%) + Quizzes (20%) + Homeworks (20%)

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·       To pass the course you grade as calculated above must be at least 40 (strict) and Final grade should be 33/100 or above.