Area Topics covered on the Exam Readings (Russell and Norvig text)
Search Methods 1. Uninformed search methods (breadth-first, depth-first, uniform-cost, iterative deepening search); NOT TESTED: bidirectional search

2. Heuristic search methods (hill-climbing, best-first, A*)

3. Constraint Satisfaction

4. Game playing (mini-max, alpha-beta prunning, heuristic search)

Chapters 3, 4 (sections 1 and 2), 5, 6
Logic and Planning 1. First-order logic and natural deduction

2. Clausal form of logic and resolution theorem proving

3. Production systems (forward and backward chaining)

4. Planning; NOT TESTED: logic programming, prolog

Chapters 7-11
Reasoning with Uncertainty 1. Probabilistic Reasoning

2. Bayesian Networks; NOT TESTED: parameterized distributions, likelihood weighting, 17.4.2, 17.4.3

3. Hidden Markov Models

4. Markov Decision Processes

Chapters 14.1-14.5,15.1-15.4,16.1-16.4,17.1-17.4.1
Learning 1. Version-space learning

2. Statistical Learning

3. Expectation Maximization

4. Reinforcement Learning

Chapters 19.1-19.3, 20.1-20.3, 21.1-21.3