Università degli Studi di Pavia

Facoltà di Ingegneria


Artificial Intelligence

A.A. 2026-2027

First Semester

Fri: 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m., Aula 5

Fri: 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m., Aula 5

Lectures & Suggested Readings:

  • Reports of errors in the resources below are always welcome
    1. 2026.10.02 (theory)

      Introduction [pdf]

      Alan Turing (Wikipedia)
      Computer chess (Wikipedia)

      BBC2 Horizon, "Out of Control", 2012 [video]

      D. Silver, et al., "Mastering the game of Go with deep neural networks and tree search", Nature, 529, 2016 [link]

      "AlphaGo - The Movie | Full Documentary", YouTube, 2020 [video]

      "The 35 Year History of ChatGPT", YouTube, 2024 [video]

    2. 2026.10.02 (theory)

      Symbolic Reasoning [pdf]
      Language, schemas and reasoning

      Syllogism (ancient logic) (Wikipedia)

    3. 2026.10.09 (theory)

      Propositional Logic [pdf]
      Boolean algebras, formal propositional language and its semantics, satisfiability, entailment

      Rules of inference, justified by entailment (Wikipedia)

    4. 2026.10.16 (theory)

      Entailment and Algorithms [pdf]
      Turing machine, decision problems, computational complexity, entailment as a satisfiability problem (refutation)

    5. 2026.10.30 (theory)

      Automated Symbolic Calculus [pdf]
      Resolution by refutation, soundess and completeness, computational complexity

    Instructor

    1. Marco Piastra

    2. Contact: marco.piastra@unipv.it


    Kiro

    1. Course info


    Exams

    1. See Faculty website


    Further resources:

    (There are no required textbooks for this course. The following books are recommended as optional readings)

    1. Mordechai Ben-Ari, Mathematical Logic for Computer Science (3rd Edition). Springer, 2012

    2. Kevin P. Murphy, Probabilistic Machine Learning: Advanced Topics, MIT Press, 2023. [Pre-print]


    Links

    1. Artificial Intelligence Reading Group


    1. Artificial Intelligence, A.A. 2025-2026 and before