CSCE 476/876

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

Detailed Course Schedule

Schedule is tentative and subject to revisions. Please regularly check page.
Dates
Material
Announcements
Week 1
Mon, Aug 21 Topic: Rules of the Game
Required reading: AIMA, Section 1.1
Recommended reading: What is AI by John McCarthy
  • Meet in AvH 21
  • Get a CSE account
  • Intro to Piazza
    • Mon, Aug 21 Same as above
  • Meet in AvH 108
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    Wed, Aug 23 Topic: Historical notes
    Required reading: AIMA: Chapter 1
    Recommended reading: What is AI by John McCarthy
  • Meet in AvH 108
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    Fri, Aug 25 Topic: Historical notes
    Required reading: AIMA: Chapter 1
    Recommended reading: What is AI by John McCarthy
    Pretest

    Two parts:
    In-class (AvH 108): closed book, handwritten crib sheet allowed, must be turned in with test
    Take-home: due Monday, Aug 28, 2017

    Week 2
    Mon, Aug 28 Topic: Intelligent Agents
    Required reading:
  • AIMA Chapter 2
  • If you are learning Lisp: LWH, Chapters Chapter 1, 2, 3, and 4
    • Recommended reading:
  • If you are learning Lisp: Beating the Averages   (Paul Graham)
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  • Meet in AvH 347
  • Take-home pretest due
  • Quiz 1
  • Glossary 1 assigned
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    Mon, Aug 28 Topic: Same as above
    Required reading:
    Recommended reading:
  • Meet in AvH 347
  • Getting Started with Emacs and ACL
  • Get your free (time-limited) version of ACL. 
  • Xemacs + ACL Keystroke accelerators
  • How To Use The Gnu Emacs-Allegro Common Lisp Interface.
  • Go, step by step, through the Emacs Tutorial. You can access it from emacs itself, by typing ESC-x, help, t.
  • Instructions on using xemacs and ACL on the PCs and on cse.unl.edu.
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    Wed, Aug 30 Topic: Same as above
    Required reading:
    Recommended reading:
  • Meet in AvH 108
  • For those learning Emacs, check out: Using Emacs.
  • For those learning Lisp: with Adaptive Remote Agent I and with Adaptive Remote Agent II
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    Fri, Sep 1 Topic: Solving Problems by Searching
    Required reading: AIMA: Chapter 3, Sections 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3 Recommended reading: LWH: Chapters 9, 11, 12, 17.
  • Meet in AvH 108
  • Homework 1 assigned
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    Week 3
    Mon, Sep 4
    Labor Day
    Wed, Sep 6 Topic:
    Required reading:
    Recommended reading:
  • Meet in AvH 108
  • Glossary 1 due
  • Glossary 2 assigned
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    Fri, Sep 8 Topic:
    Required reading:
    Recommended reading:
  • Meet in AvH 108
  • Homework 1 due
  • Homework 2 (Generic version) or Homework 2 (Lisp version) assigned
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    Week 4
    Mon, Sep 11 Topic: Solving Problems by Searching
    Required reading: AIMA: Chapter 3, Sections 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3 Recommended reading: More chapter in LWH
  • Meet in AvH 347
  • Quiz 2
  • Glossary 2 due
  • Glossary 3 assigned
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    Mon, Sep 11 Topic: Same as above
    Required reading: Same as above
    Recommended reading: Same as above
  • Meet in AvH 347
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    Wed, Sep 13 Topic: Solving Problems by Searching
    Required reading:
  • AIMA: Chapter 3, Sections 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6
    • Recommended reading: LWH: Chapters 9, 11, 12, 17.
  • Meet in AvH 108
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    Fri, Sep 15 Topic:
    Required reading:
    Recommended reading:
  • Meet in AvH 108
  • Homework 2 (Generic version) due
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    Week 5
    Mon, Sep 18 Topic:
    Required reading:
    Recommended reading:
  • Meet in AvH 347
  • Quiz 3
  • Homework 2 (Lisp version) due
  • Homework 3 assigned
  • Glossary 3 due
  • Glossary 4 assigned
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    Mon, Sep 18 Topic:
    Required reading:
    Recommended reading:
  • Meet in AvH 347
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    Wed, Sep 20 Topic: ..
    Required reading:
    Recommended reading:
  • Meet in AvH 108
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    Fri, Sep 22 Topic:
    Required reading:
    Recommended reading:
  • Meet in AvH 108
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    Week 6
    Mon, Sep 25 Topic: Local Search
    Required reading: AIMA: Chapter 4
    Recommended reading:
  • Entire Chapter 4
  • LWH: Chapters 6, 10, 13, 14.
  • LWH: Chapters 9, 11, 12, 17
  • Meet in AvH 347
  • Quiz 4
  • Glossary 4 due
  • Glossary 5 assigned
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    Mon, Sep 25 Topic:
    Required reading:
    Recommended reading:
  • Meet in AvH 347
  • Quiz 5
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    Wed, Sep 27 Topic: Adverserial Search
    Required reading: Section 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
    Recommended reading: All Chapter 5.
  • Play with the Alpha-beta animation by Yosen Lin, or the applet from Eastern Michigan University.
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  • Meet in AvH 108
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    Fri, Sep 29 Topic:
    Required reading:
    Recommended reading:
  • Meet in AvH 108
  • Homework 3 due
  • Homework 4 (Generic version) or Homework 4 (Lisp version) assigned
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    Week 7
    Mon, Oct 2
    MidTerm in AvH 347
    Closed books.
    Handwritten, double-sided crib sheet allowed, must be turned in with exam.
    No proofs included or solutions to examples or problems.
    Mon, Oct 2 Topic:
    Required reading:
    Recommended reading:
  • Meet in AvH 347
  • Glossary 5 due
  • Glossary 6 assigned
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    Wed, Oct 4 Topic: Constraint Satisfaction.
    Required reading: Chapter 6
    Recommended reading:
  • Bartak online guide,
  • Kumar's paper,
  • Bartak's paper (PDF)
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  • Meet in AvH 108
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    Fri, Oct 6 Topic:
    Required reading:
    Recommended reading:
  • Meet in AvH 108
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    Week 8
    Mon, Oct 9 Topic:
    Required reading:
    Recommended reading:
  • Meet in AvH 347
  • Quiz 6
  • Glossary 6 due
  • Glossary 7 assigned
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    Mon, Oct 9 Topic:
    Required reading:
    Recommended reading:
  • Meet in AvH 347
    • ..
    Wed, Oct 11 Topic: Same as above
    Required reading: Same as above
    Recommended reading: Same as above
  • Meet in AvH 108
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    Fri, Oct 13 Topic: Logical Agents
    Required reading: Chapter 7, Sections 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
  • Meet in AvH 108
  • Homework 4 (Generic version) or Homework 4 (Lisp version) due
  • Homework 5 assigned
    • Week 9
    Mon, Oct 16
    Student Holiday
    Wed, Oct 18 Topic:
    Required reading:
    Recommended reading:
  • Meet in AvH 108
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    Fri, Oct 20 Topic: Logical Agents
    Required reading: Chapter 7, Sections 7.4, 7.5
  • Meet in AvH 108
  • Homework 5 due
  • Homework 6 assigned
    • Week 10
    Mon, Oct 23 Topic:
    Required reading:
    Recommended reading:
  • Meet in AvH 347
  • Quiz 7
  • Glossary 7 due
  • Glossary 8 assigned
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    Mon, Oct 23 Topic:
    Required reading:
    Recommended reading:
  • Meet in AvH 347
    • ..
    Wed, Oct 25 Topic:
    Required reading:
    Recommended reading:
  • Meet in AvH 108
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    Fri, Oct 27 Topic: First Order Logic
    Required reading: Chapter 8: Sections 8.1, 8.2, and 8.3
  • Meet in AvH 108
  • Homework 6 due
  • Homework 7 assigned
    • Week 11
    Mon, Oct 30 Topic:
    Required reading:
    Recommended reading:
  • Meet in AvH 347
  • Quiz 8
  • Glossary 8 due
  • Glossary 9 assigned
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    Mon, Oct 30 Topic:
    Required reading:
    Recommended reading:
  • Meet in AvH 347
    • ..
    Wed, Nov 1 Topic: Inference in First Order Logic
    Required reading: Chapter 9
    Recommended reading:  
  • Meet in AvH 108
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    Fri, Nov 3 Topic:
    Required reading:
    Recommended reading:
  • Meet in AvH 108
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    Week 12
    Mon, Nov 6 Topic:
    Required reading:
    Recommended reading:
  • Meet in AvH 347
  • Quiz 9
  • Glossary 9 due
  • Glossary 10 assigned
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    Mon, Nov 6 Topic:
    Required reading:
    Recommended reading:
  • Meet in AvH 347
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    Wed, Nov 8 Topic: Planning.
    Required reading: Chapters 9 and 10
    Recommended reading:
  • AIMA Section 10.3
  • AIMA Sections 11.1--11.4
  • Meet in AvH 108
  • Homework 7 due Alert!
  • Homework 8 assigned
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    Fri, Nov 10 Topic:
    Required reading:
    Recommended reading:
  • Meet in AvH 108
    • Week 13
    Mon, Nov 13 Topic:
    Required reading:
    Recommended reading:
  • Meet in AvH 347
  • Quiz 10
  • Glossary 10 due
  • Glossary 11 assigned
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    Mon, Nov 13 Topic:
    Required reading:
    Recommended reading:
  • Meet in AvH 347
    • ..
    Wed, Nov 15 Topic:
    Required reading:
    Recommended reading:
  • Meet in AvH 108
  • Homework 8 due
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    Fri, Nov 17 Topic:
    Required reading:
    Recommended reading:
  • Meet in AvH 108
  • Glossary 11 (separately from the final glossary)
  • Final glossary due
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    Week 14
    Mon, Nov 20
    Final Examination
    From 2:30 to 4:30 pm in Avery Hall 347.
    Closed books.
    Handwritten, double-sided crib sheet allowed, must be turned in with exam.