Detailed Course Schedule
| Date | Material | Announcements |
| Week 1 | ||
| Mon, Aug 26 | Class From 2:30 to 3:20 pm, in AvH 118 Topic: Rules of the Game Required reading: AIMA, Section 1.1 Recommended reading: What is AI by John McCarthy |
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| Mon, Aug 26 |
Recitation from 3:30 to
4:20 pm, in AvH 21
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| Wed, Aug 28 |
Class From 2:30 to 3:20 pm Topic: A Gentle Introduction to Common Lisp Required reading: LWH: Chapters 1—4. Recommended reading: Beating the Averages (Paul Graham) Required reading: AIMA: Chapter 1 |
You can start working on Homework 1 |
| Fri, Aug 30 |
Class From 2:30 to 3:20 pm, in AvH 118 Topic: A Gentle Introduction to Common Lisp Required reading: LWH: Chapters 1—4. Recommended reading: Beating the Averages (Paul Graham) |
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| Week 2 | ||
| Mon, Sep 02 | ||
| Wed, Sep 04 |
Topic: Practicing Emacs, Lisp Required reading: |
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| Fri, Sep 06 |
Quiz in AvH 118 starting at 2:30 PM,
followed by Topic: More Lisp Required reading: LWH: Chapters (1—4) 6, 10, 13, 14. Recommended reading: Beating the Averages (Paul Graham) |
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| Week 3 | ||
| Mon, Sep 09 |
Topic: Historical Notes Required Reading: AIMA: Chapter 1 Recommended reading: The Long Game of Research (Communications of the ACM, Vol. 62, No.9, September 2019) |
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| Mon, Sep 09 | Recitation |
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| Wed, Sep 11 |
Topic: Intelligent Agents Required reading:
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| Fri, Sep 13 |
Topic: Solving Problems by Searching Required Reading: AIMA Chapter 3, Sections 3.1—3 Recommended reading: LWH Chapters 9, 11, 12, 17 |
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| Week 4 | ||
| Mon, Sep 16 |
Topic: Same as above Required Reading: Same as above Recommended Reading: Same as above |
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| Mon, Sep 16 | Recitation | Quiz #2 over HWK 2 ARA Assignment |
| Wed, Sep 18 |
Topic: Solving Problems by Searching Required Reading: AIMA Chapter 3, Sections 3.4—6 Recommended reading Read more chapters of LWH |
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| Fri, Sep 20 |
Topic: Same as above Required reading:
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| Week 5 | ||
| Mon, Sep 23 |
Topic: Heuristic Search Required Reading:
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| Mon, Sep 23 | Recitation | Quiz 3 |
| Wed, Sep 25 |
Topic: Same as above Required reading: Same as above Recommended Reading: Same as above |
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| Fri, Sep 27 |
Topic: Same as above Required reading: Same as above Recommended Reading: Same as above |
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| Week 6 | ||
| Mon, Sep 30 |
Topic: Local Search Required Reading: AIMA Chapter 4 Recommended Reading:
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| Mon, Sep 30 | Recitation | Quiz 4 |
| Wed, Oct 02 |
Topic: Adverserial Search Required Reading: AIMA 5.1—3 Recommended Reading:
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| Fri, Oct 04 |
Topic: Same as above Required reading: Same as above Recommended Reading: Same as above | |
| Week 7 | ||
| Mon, Oct 07 |
Topic: Same as above Required reading: Same as above Recommended Reading: Same as above |
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| Mon, Oct 07 | Recitation | Quiz 5 |
| Wed, Oct 09 |
Topic: Constraint Satisfaction Required Reading: Chapter 6 Recommended Reading: |
Office hour of instructor cancelled today. |
| Fri, Oct 11 |
Topic: Same as above Required reading: Same as above Recommended Reading: Same as above |
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| Week 8 | ||
| Mon, Oct 14 |
Topic: Same as above Required reading: Same as above Recommended Reading: Same as above |
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| Mon, Oct 14 | Recitation | Quiz 6 |
| Wed, Oct 16 | Review Session | |
| Fri, Oct 18 |
Closed books. Handwritten, double-sided crib sheet allowed, must be turned in with exam. No proofs included or solutions to examples or problems. |
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| Week 9 | ||
| Mon, Oct 21 | ||
| Wed, Oct 23 |
Topic: Same as above Required reading: Same as above Recommended Reading: Same as above |
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| Fri, Oct 25 |
Topic: Logical Agents Required Reading: AIMA 7.1—3 |
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| Week 10 | ||
| Mon, Oct 28 |
Topic: Same as above Required reading: Same as above Recommended Reading: Same as above |
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| Mon, Oct 28 | Recitation | Quiz 7 |
| Wed, Oct 30 |
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| Fri, Nov 01 |
Topic: Logical Agents Required Reading: AIMA 7.4, 7.5 |
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| Week 11 | ||
| Mon, Nov 04 |
Topic: Same as above Required reading: Same as above, AIMA Chapter 7 |
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| Mon, Nov 04 | Recitation | Quiz 8 |
| Wed, Nov 06 |
Topic: Same as above Required reading: Same as above, AIMA Chapter 7 |
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| Fri, Nov 08 |
Topic: First Order Logic Required Reading: AIMA 8 |
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| Week 12 | ||
| Mon, Nov 11 |
Topic: Same as above Required reading: Same as above Recommended Reading: Same as above |
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| Mon, Nov 11 | Recitation | Quiz 9 |
| Wed, Nov 13 |
Topic: Inference in First Order Logic Required Reading: Chapter 9 Recommended Reading: |
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| Fri, Nov 15 |
Topic: Same as above Required reading: Same as above Recommended Reading: Same as above |
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| Week 13 | ||
| Mon, Nov 18 |
Topic: Same as above Required reading: Same as above Recommended Reading: Same as above |
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| Mon, Nov 18 | Recitation | Quiz 10 |
| Wed, Nov 20 |
Topic: Finish FOL; Start Planning Required Reading: AIMA 9, 10 Recommended Reading:
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| Fri, Nov 22 |
Topic: Same as above Required reading: Same as above Recommended Reading: Same as above |
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| Week 14 | ||
| Mon, Nov 25 |
Topic: Same as above Required reading: Same as above Recommended Reading: Same as above |
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| Mon, Nov 25 | Recitation | Quiz 11 |
| Wed, Nov 27 | ||
| Fri, Nov 29 | ||
| Week 15 | ||
| Mon, Dec 02 |
Topic: Same as above Required reading: Same as above Recommended Reading: Same as above |
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| Mon, Dec 02 | Recitation | Quiz 12 |
| Wed, Dec 04 |
Topic: Same as above Required reading: Same as above Recommended Reading: Same as above |
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| Fri, Dec 06 | Finish GraphPlan |
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| Week 16 (Dead Week) | ||
| Mon, Dec 09 |
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| Mon, Dec 09 | Recitation | Quiz 13 (quizzes are allowed during dead week) |
| Wed, Dec 11 | ||
| Fri, Dec 13 | Review Session | |
| Week 17 | ||
| Wed, Dec 18 | Final Exam — 1:00pm - 3:00pm in AvH 118 | Review sheet distributed in class |