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The course EN 520.650 Machine Intelligence covers essential topics in artificial intelligence, including search, knowledge representation, and ethics, with applications in engineering and medicine. Students are expected to have programming skills and a background in probability and linear algebra, and will engage in lectures, homework, projects, and exams. The course emphasizes the development of intelligent algorithms and systems, with a focus on ethical considerations and academic integrity.

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The course EN 520.650 Machine Intelligence covers essential topics in artificial intelligence, including search, knowledge representation, and ethics, with applications in engineering and medicine. Students are expected to have programming skills and a background in probability and linear algebra, and will engage in lectures, homework, projects, and exams. The course emphasizes the development of intelligent algorithms and systems, with a focus on ethical considerations and academic integrity.

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Spring 2026 EN 520.

650

Machine Intelligence

Description This course will cover most topics studied in artificial intelligence, with emphasis on the
"core competences" of intelligent systems - search, knowledge representation, reasoning under
uncertainty, vulnerability, ethics and safety of intelligent systems. Recent applications in
engineering and medicine will be highlighted.

Recommended Course Background Programming skills in C or PyTorch, undergraduate probability


theory and linear algebra. Willingness to read classical and current papers on AI.

Lectures are on Mondays and Wednesdays between 1:30-2:45 pm.

Instructor: Rama Chellappa, rchella4@[Link]

Office hours: Mondays 5:00-6:00 p.m.

Course Assistants:

Ms. Namitha Guruprasad, Office hours:


Mr. Remus Li, Office hours:
Ms. Xijun Liu, Office hours:
Textbook Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig, Fourth Edition,
Pearson, 2021.

Online Resources: Classical and recent papers from the literature.

Course Objectives This course teaches the core concepts of artificial intelligence - problem solving,
reasoning, decision making, and learning - and on the probabilistic foundations of these topics.
Upon completion of the course, the students should be able to comprehend the principles behind
building intelligent algorithms and systems. Moreover, they should be able to implement algorithms
that "exhibit intelligence".

Course Topics History; Intelligent agents; Problem solving by searching; Adversarial search and
games; Constraint satisfaction problems; Probabilistic reasoning; Dynamic Bayesian networks and
associated inference algorithms; optimal sequential decisions, Markov decision processes; Deep
learning; Reinforcement Learning, Generative AI, LLMs, Video-Language Models, AI safety and
security, Fair and ethical AI; Embodied AI. and applications in medicine.

Course Expectations & Grading There will be five to six homeworks, a midterm, two computer
projects and a final. Homeworks account for 10% of the grade. The projects account for 30% of the
final grade. The midterm accounts for 30% of the grade and the final 30%.
Ethics The strength of the university depends on academic and personal integrity. Ethical violations
include cheating on exams, plagiarism, reuse of assignments, improper use of the Internet and
electronic devices, unauthorized collaboration, and facilitating academic dishonesty. Report any
violations you witness to the instructor. You can find more information about university misconduct
policies on the web at [Link]

Students with Disability: Any student with a disability who may need accommodations in this class
must obtain an accommodation letter from Student Disability Services, 385 Garland, (410) 516-
4720, studentdisabilityservices@[Link].

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