Welcome to CET4973: Intro to Artificial Intelligence
Here, you will find information about the course, including the syllabus, grading policies, schedule, and other relevant resources. Welcome to the Spring 2026 session.
This is an online course. Ensure you have a camera and microphone ready, along with your computer and an active Internet connection. Log in to Brightspace to find the Zoom link and review announcements and details for the first week of classes. This semester, our first meeting is on Wednesday, January 28. I will see you then.
Instructor

Instructor: Dr. Benito Mendoza
Lecture: Wednesday 2:15-5:35
Classroom: Online
Office: V623
Office Hours: Tuesday, 10:30 to 11:30 and 2:00-3:00, Thursday, 10:30-12:30, or by appointment.
Email: bmendoza@citytech.cuny.edu
Phone: 718-260-5885
Website: http://www.citytech.cuny.edu/faculty/BMendoza
Textbook
No textbook has been adopted. The instructor will provide the material for each topic.
Reference Books
- Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (3rd Edition). Stuart Russel and Peter Norvig. Pearson. 2009. ISBN-13: 978-0136042594
- Artificial Intelligence in the 21st Century: A Living Introduction. Second Edition. Stephen Lucci and Danny Kopec. Mercury Learning. 2016. ISBN-13: 9781942270003
- Essentials of Artificial Intelligence. Matt Ginsberg. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc. ISBN-13: 9780323139687
- A Course in Machine Learning. Hal Daumé III. Self-published
http://ciml.info/
Additional Resources
- Datacamp.com
- Google Colab
- Python.org (We will be working with version 3.13.x)
- Visual Studio Code
- kaggle.com
