STAFF

Instructor: Funda Durupinar Babur

Office: M-03-0201-08

Office Hours: By appointment via Calendly The default setting is 15 min. You can make consecutive appointments if you think we'll need more time.

Teaching Assistant: Nana Lin (nana.lin002@umb.edu)

TA Office hours: Thursdays 14:30-16:30 at M-03-201-30.

DESCRIPTION

This course covers a broad technical introduction to the techniques that enable computers to behave intelligently: problem solving and game playing, knowledge representation and reasoning, planning and decision making, learning, perception and interpretation. The application of these techniques to real-world systems, with some programming in Python.

Course Format

Classes will be in-person. We will use Blackboard for the course. All the course material including slides, assignments, and announcements will be on Blackboard.

TExtbooks

Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (4th Edition), Stuart Russell, Peter Norvig, 2021, ISBN 978-0134610993

GRADING

Assignments: (35%)

There will be several sets of assignments that include programming tasks.

Midterm: (25%)

Will cover the book chapters 1-9, 12-14.

Final exam: (40%)

LATE SUBMISSION POLICY

Any unexcused work received past the due date will receive a deduction on the following scale:

• Less than 1 day late: 10 points

• More than 1 day late: 20 points * number of days.

So, an assignment with an original grade of 100 will receive 90 if it is submitted a few hours later than the deadline, 80 if it is submitted the next day (>24 hrs past deadline) until it receives no credit after the 5th day.

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY AND CHEATING POLICY

Any student submitting somebody else’s work as their own, or copying their own old work (whole or in part) to a new submission, will fail the course and be subjected to disciplinary action. In particularly drastic cases, plagiarism can lead to expulsion from the University. The instructor will not tolerate dishonesty and make no exceptions to this policy. Please protect yourself and the instructor from this unpleasant business by being honest and submitting only your own work.

Students are required to adhere to the University Policy on Academic Standards and Cheating, to the University Statement on Plagiarism and the Documentation of Written Work, and to the Code of Student Conduct which is available online at: https://www.umb.edu/academics/academic_integrity/policy_guidance

DISABILITIES

Section 504 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 offers guidelines for curriculum modifications and adaptations for students with documented disabilities. If applicable, students may obtain adaptation recommendations from the Ross Center for Disability Services, M1401 (617-287-7430). The student must present these recommendations and discuss them with each professor within a reasonable period, preferably by the end of Drop/Add period.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Course materials will be available on Blackboard.