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