https://teezhiyao.com/tags/cs-6601/Recent content in Cs-6601 on Tee Zhi YaoHugo -- gohugo.ioenThu, 02 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://teezhiyao.com/posts/omscs-cs-6601-artificial-intelligence-spring-2024/Thu, 02 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://teezhiyao.com/posts/omscs-cs-6601-artificial-intelligence-spring-2024/<p>CS 6601 Artificial Intelligence was my first OMSCS course in Spring 2024. Starting the program with a single course felt like the right call, and AI turned out to be a solid choice — it&rsquo;s a broad survey that covers search, probability, decision theory, and machine learning, all tied together by the thread of building intelligent agents.</p> <h2 id="what-the-course-covered">What The Course Covered</h2> <p>The course is organised around the idea of an intelligent agent perceiving its environment and acting upon it. It started with search — the foundation of many AI problems. Uninformed search (BFS, DFS, uniform-cost) then informed search with A* and the critical concept of admissible and consistent heuristics. The heuristic quality directly determines whether A* finds the optimal path efficiently or explores the entire space. Local search methods like hill climbing and simulated annealing followed, plus constraint satisfaction problems with backtracking and arc consistency.</p>