CS486/686 Winter 2026 - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

GPU and TPU Acceleration

For GPU and TPU acceleration, feel free to use Google's Colaboratory environment. This is a free cloud service where you can run Python code (including TensorFlow and PyTorch, which are pre-installed) with GPU or TPU acceleration. The following steps are recommended:

• Create a Python notebook in Google Colab
• Click on "edit", then "notebook settings" and select "None" (CPU), "GPU" or "TPU" for hardware acceleration.

Textbooks

Complementary readings in the textbooks are indicated for every lecture in the course schedule.

• [RN3] 3rd edition of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach by Russell and Norvig
• [P] 2nd edition of Causality: Models, Reasoning and Inference by Pearl
• [ZLLS] Aston Zhang, Zack C. Lipton, Mu Li, Alex J. Smola, Dive into Deep Learning (forthcoming)