Detailed Course Schedule

Date	Material	Announcements
Week 1
Mon, Aug 23	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
Mon, Aug 23	Recitation from 3:30 to 4:20 pm, in AvH 21 Register on Piazza Read Intro to Piazza Read welcome message on Piazza. Get a CSE account	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.
Wed, Aug 25	Class From 2:30 to 3:20 pm, in AvH 118 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)
Fri, Aug 27	Pretest Two parts: In-class: closed book, handwritten crib sheet allowed, must be turned in with test Take-home: due ~~Wed, Sep 04~~ Mon, Aug 30
Week 2
Mon, Aug 30	Topic: Intelligent Agents Required reading:AIMA Chapter 2	Take-home Pretest Due Homework 1 assigned Glossary 1 assigned
Mon, Aug 30	Recitation from 3:30 to 4:20 pm, in AvH 21 Topic: A Gentle Introduction to Common Lisp Required reading: LWH: Chapters 1—4. Recommended reading: Beating the Averages (Paul Graham)	Using Emacs Very first steps in Lisp . Those learning Lisp can do three then three more classes of the Adaptive Remote Agent
Wed, Sep 01	Topic: Same as above Required reading: Recommended reading:
Fri, Sep 03	Topic: Solving Problems by Searching Required Reading: AIMA Chapter 3, Sections 3.4—6 Recommended reading Read more chapters of LWH
Week 3
Mon, Sep 06	Labor Day
Wed, Sep 08		Glossary 1 Due Glossary 2 Assigned
Fri, Sep 10	Topic: Solving Problems by Searching Required Reading: AIMA Chapter 3, Sections 3.1—3 Recommended reading: LWH Chapters 9, 11, 12, 17	Homework 1 Due Homework 2 Assigned
Week 4
Mon, Sep 13	Topic: Same as above Required Reading: Same as above Recommended Reading: Same as above	Glossary 2 Due Glossary 3 Assigned
Mon, Sep 13	Recitation Topic: More Lisp, Practicing Emacs, Lisp Required reading: LWH: Chapters (1—4) 6, 10, 13, 14. Recommended reading: Beating the Averages (Paul Graham)	Quiz Next steps in Lisp Iteration with Do and Structures Those learning Lisp can do three then three more classes of the Adaptive Remote Agent
Wed, Sep 15
Fri, Sep 17	Topic: Same as above Required reading: Same as above Recommended reading: More chapters of LWH	Homework 2 extended to Sep 20 Homework 3 Assigned
Week 5
Mon, Sep 20	Topic: Heuristic Search Required Reading: AIMA Sections 3.5, 3.6 (all previous sections of Chapter 3) LISP: Chapters 6, 10, 13, 14 Recommended reading: More chapters of LWH	Homework 2 (Both versions) Due Glossary 3 Due Glossary 4 Assigned
Mon, Sep 20	Recitation	Quiz LWH Chapters 5, 7, 8, 15, 16
Wed, Sep 22	Topic: Same as above Required reading: Same as above Recommended Reading: Same as above
Fri, Sep 24	Topic: Same as above Required reading: Same as above Recommended Reading: Same as above
Week 6
Mon, Sep 27	Topic: Local Search Required Reading: AIMA Chapter 4, Section 4.1 Recommended Reading: All of Chapter 4	Glossary 4 Due Glossary 5 Assigned
Mon, Sep 27	Recitation	Quiz LWH Chapters 6, 10, 13, 14 LWH Chapters 9, 11, 12, 17
Wed, Sep 29	Topic: Adverserial Search Required Reading: AIMA 5.1—3 Recommended Reading: All of Chapter 5 Play with the Alpha-Beta animation by Yosen Lin or the applet from Eastern Michigan University.
Fri, Oct 01	Topic: Same as above Required reading: Same as above Recommended Reading: Same as above	Homework 3 Due Homework 4(generic) Assigned Homework 4(lisp) Assigned
Week 7
Mon, Oct 04	Topic: Same as above Required reading: Same as above Recommended Reading: Same as above	Glossary 5 Due Glossary 6 Assigned
Mon, Oct 04	Recitation	Quiz
Wed, Oct 06	Topic: Constraint Satisfaction Required Reading: Chapter 6 Recommended Reading: Bartak's Online Guide Bartak's paper (PDF)
Fri, Oct 08	Topic: Same as above Required reading: Same as above Recommended Reading: Same as above
Week 8
Mon, Oct 11	Topic: Same as above Required reading: Same as above Recommended Reading: Same as above	Glossary 6 Due Glossary 7 Assigned
Mon, Oct 11	Recitation	Quiz
Wed, Oct 13	Review Session
Fri, Oct 15	Midterm Closed books. Handwritten, double-sided crib sheet allowed, must be turned in with exam. No proofs included or solutions to examples or problems.	Homework 4(generic) Due Homework 4(lisp) Due Homework 5 Assigned
Week 9
Mon, Oct 18	Fall Break
Wed, Oct 20	Topic: Same as above Required reading: Same as above Recommended Reading: Same as above
Fri, Oct 22	Topic: Logical Agents Required Reading: AIMA 7.1—3
Week 10
Mon, Oct 25	Topic: Same as above Required reading: Same as above Recommended Reading: Same as above	Glossary 7 Due Glossary 8 Assigned
Mon, Oct 25	Recitation	Quiz
Wed, Oct 27
Fri, Oct 29	Topic: Logical Agents Required Reading: AIMA 7.4, 7.5	Homework 5 Due Homework 6 Assigned
Week 11
Mon, Nov 01	Topic: Same as above Required reading: Same as above, AIMA Chapter 7
Mon, Nov 01	Recitation	Quiz
Wed, Nov 03	Topic: Same as above Required reading: Same as above, AIMA Chapter 7
Fri, Nov 05	Topic: First Order Logic Required Reading: AIMA 8	~~Homework 6 Due~~ ~~Homework 7 Assigned~~
Week 12
Mon, Nov 08	Topic: Same as above Required reading: Same as above Recommended Reading: Same as above	Homework 6 Due Homework 7 Assigned Glossary 8 Due Glossary 9 Assigned
Mon, Nov 08	Recitation	Quiz
Wed, Nov 10	Topic: Inference in First Order Logic Required Reading: Chapter 9 Recommended Reading:
Fri, Nov 12	Topic: Same as above Required reading: Same as above Recommended Reading: Same as above
Week 13
Mon, Nov 15	Topic: Same as above Required reading: Same as above Recommended Reading: Same as above	Glossary 9 Due Glossary 10 Assigned
Mon, Nov 15	Recitation	Quiz
Wed, Nov 17	Topic: Finish FOL; Start Planning Required Reading: AIMA 9, 10 Recommended Reading: AIMA 10.3 AIMA 11.1—4
Fri, Nov 19	Topic: Same as above Required reading: Same as above Recommended Reading: Same as above
Week 14
Mon, Nov 22	Topic: Same as above Required reading: Same as above Recommended Reading: Same as above	Glossary 10 Due Glossary 11 Assigned
Mon, Nov 22	Recitation	Quiz
Wed, Nov 24	Thanksgiving Break
Fri, Nov 26	Thanksgiving Break
Week 15
Mon, Nov 29	Topic: Same as above Required reading: Same as above Recommended Reading: Same as above	Homework 7 Due Glossary 11 Due
Mon, Nov 29	Recitation	Quiz
Wed, Dec 01	Topic: Same as above Required reading: Same as above Recommended Reading: Same as above
Fri, Dec 03	Finish GraphPlan	Final Glossary (all prior, combined & alphabetized) Assigned Review sheet distributed in class
Week 16 (Dead Week)
Mon, Dec 06	Final Exam in AvH 118: 2:30pm - 4:30pm in AvH 118
Wed, Dec 08	Instructor available for discussion
Fri, Dec 10	Instructor available for discussion
Week 17
Wed, Dec 15	Instructor available for discussion

CSCE 476/876

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

Detailed Course Schedule