Lecture 4: Search: Depth-First, Hill Climbing, Beam

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Description: This lecture covers algorithms for depth-first and breadth-first search, followed by several refinements: keeping track of nodes already considered, hill climbing, and beam search. We end with a brief discussion of commonsense vs. reflective knowledge.

Instructor: Patrick H. Winston

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