CSCE 476/876, Spring 2002: Class schedule

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Here are some items proposed by the class of Spring 2001:

Homework:
Homework
Assigned data
Due date
Homework1
 Wednesday Jan 23, 2002 Wednesday Feb 6, 2002 
  • before class
  • using handin
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    Homework2  Friday Feb 8, 2002  Wednesday Feb 13th, 2002
  • before class
  • using handin
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    Homework 3 and the alternative:Homework3 (a.k.a. challenge). Here is a file with solutions from some students. Alert: these are reported verbatim and have not been checked for coding or stylistic features or errors. Wed, Feb 13, 2002 Wed, Feb 20th, 2002
    Homework 4 
    		 Wed, Feb 20, 2002 Mon, Mar 4, 2002
    Homework 5
    		 Monday, March 11, 2002.
  • Wednesday, March 27, Friday, March 29 2002: Questions 1, 2, and 3.  Question 4, sketch. 
  • Monday, April 1st, Friday, April 5th 2002. Question 4.
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    Homework 6
    		 Monday, April 8, 2002. Monday, April 22, 2002.

     

    Handouts:

    1. Syllabus and grading strategy: Handout 1
    2. Introduction to AI: Instructor's notes 1
    3. Historical notes: Instructor's notes 2, What is AI (by John McCarthy).
    4. Lisp:  Instructor's notes 3, Instructions on using xemacs and ACL on the PCs., Xemacs + ACL Keystroke accelerators, Beating the Averages  (Paul Graham)
    5. The code for the farmer dilemma from Artificial Intelligence by George F Luger, Fourth edition.
    6. Solving Problems by Searching: Instructor's notes 4
    7. Solving Problems by Searching: Instructor's notes 5
    8. Informed Search Methods: Instructor's notes 6
    9. Constraint Satisfaction: Instructor's notes 7
    10. Game Playing: Instructor's notes 8
    11. Agents that Reason Logically: Instructor's notes 9
    12. Agents that Reason Logically II: Instructor's notes 10
    13. First order logic I:  Instructor's  notes 11
    14. First order logic II: Instructor's notes 12
    15. Inference in First order logiic I: Instructor's notes 13
    16. Inference in First order logiic II: Instructor's notes 14
    Dates 
    Material
    Homework & Tests
    Announcements and notifications
    Mon, Jan 14
    Topic: Rules fo the game and introduction to the topic
    Required reading: AIMA Chapter 1, Section 1.1
    Recommended reading: AIMA, Section 1.2
     
  •  Class held in Ferguson 111
  • Make sure you have a CSE account. 
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    Wed, Jan 16
    Topic: Historical notes, Intelligent agents
    Required reading: AIMA Historical notes (Chapter 1), Intelligent agents (Chapter 2)
    Recommended reading: 
    Glossary 1 assigned
    		  
    Fri, Jan 18
    Pretest: 
  • In-class: closed books, handwritten crib sheet allowed, must be turnied in with test
  • Take-home: collaboration, discussion strictly forbidden . To be returned on Wed Jan 23
  • Make sure to check out whether or not you took CSCE310 (or equivalent) and provide your grade. 
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    Mon, Jan 21
    Martin Luther King Day
    Wed, Jan 23
    Topic: Gentle introduction to Common Lisp
    Required reading: LWH: Chapter 1, 2, 3, and 4.
    Strongly recommended: 
  • (Lisp) run on-line LISP tutorials, such as the Adaptive Remote Tutor.
  • (Lisp)Overview of language constructs, by Donald Ross 
  • Chronologiy of AI
  • What is AI (by John McCarthy)
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    Glossary 1 due
    Take-home protion of pretest  due
    Homework 1 assigned
  •  Take home pretest is due.
  • Ask your questions on Lisp/emacs. 
  • Xemacs + ACL Keystroke accelerators 
  • Get your free (time-limited) version of ACL. 
  • Instructions on using xemacs and ACL on the PCs. 
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    Fri, Jan 25
    Topic: Finishing up topics started on Wed 23 (intro to lisp) 
    Required reading: Same as Wed 23 (intro to lisp) and Wed 16 (historical notes and intelligent agents)
    Recommended reading:
  • Paul Graham: What made Lisp different, Lisp in Web-Based Applications,The Roots of Lisp, .. check Graham's collection of articles 
  •  "ITA Software is slowlying replacing the [airline] industry's hardware and software with Common Lisp code running on Linux PCs" [Carl de Marcken, Jan 2001]
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    Ask your questions on Lisp/emacs. 
    Mon, Jan 28
    		 Same as previous.
     
     
    Wed, Jan 30
    Topic: (1) quiz, (2) pretest corrections, (3) Finishing up topics started Wed 16 (historical notes and intelligent agents)
    Required reading:
    Recommended reading:
    Quiz 1 in class.
     
    Fri, Feb 1
    Topic: Intelligent agents, solving problems by searching.
    Required reading: AIMA: Chapter 2, Chapter 3 (Sections 3.1, 3.2, 3.3), Appendix A
    Recommended reading:
    Glossary 2 assigned
     
    Mon, Feb 4
    		 Same as previous.
    Glossary 2 due.
    Deadline for claiming missing points on Pretest.
    Quiz 1 will be corrected in class
    Help session in Room 21 on Tue Feb 5 from 4:30 to 6:30 pm.
    Wed, Feb 6
    Topic: Solving problems by searching.
    Required reading: 
  • Chapter 3 (Sections 3.1, 3.2, 3.3), Appendix A
  • LWH: Chapter 5, 6, 7 and 10

    • Recommended reading:
    Homework 1 due
     
    Fri, Feb 8
    Topic: same as previous.
    Required reading:
    Recommended reading:
    Homework 2 assigned
    Deadline for claiming missing points on Quiz1
    Mon, Feb 11
    Topic: Solving problems by searching.
    Required reading: Chapter 3 (Sections 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6) 
    Recommended reading:
    Quiz 2 in class.
     
    Wed, Feb 13
    Topic: same as previous.
    Homework 2 due
    Quiz 2: 
  • Lisp question from HWK2, and 
  • course material

    • Homework 3 assigned
     
    Fri, Feb 15
    Same as previous.
     
    Correction of Quiz 2 in class.
    Mon, Feb 18
    Topic: Heuristic Search 
    Required reading: AIMA Chapter 4. LWH: Chapters 13 and 14
    Recommended reading:
    Glossary 3 due.
    Glossary 4 assigned.
    Grades for HWK1 are issued and listed.
    Wed, Feb 20
    Same as previous.
    HWK3 due
    HWK 4 assigned
    Deadline for claiming points for HWK1.
    Fri, Feb 22
    Same as previous.
     
     
    Mon, Feb 25
    Same as previous.
    Glossary 4 due.
    Glossary 5 assigned
     
    Wed, Feb 27
    		 Same as previous.
     
     
    Fri, Mar 1 
    Topic: CSP
    Required reading:
  • AIMA: Section 3.7 (Chapter 3) and pages 104 & 114 (chapter4)
  • Introduction to CSP: Bartak's on-line guide

    • Recommended reading:
  • Algorithms for Constraint Satisfation Problems: A Survey. By Vipin Kuma. AI Magazine, Vol 13, No 1, 32-44, 1992.

    • Constraint Programming: In Pursuit of the Holy Grail. Bartak. in Proceedings of WDS99 (invited talk), Prague, June 199
     
     
    Mon, Mar 4
     
    Same as previous: CSP, cont'd
    HWK4 due.
    Glossary 5 due
     
    Wed, Mar 6
     Review
    Fri, Mar 8
    Mid-term
    Important Announcement: the AI Course Challenge
    Mon, Mar 11
     
    Same as previous: CSP, cont'd.
    HWK 5 assigned
     
    Wed, Mar 13
    		 Same as previous: CSP, cont'd.
     
     
    Fri, Mar 15
    Topic: End CSP, Game Playing.
    Required reading: AIMA, Chapter 5, Section 5.1, 5.2 and 5.4
    Quiz 3
     Glossary 6 assigned
     
    Mon, Mar 18
    Spring vacation
    Wed, Mar 20
    Fri, Mar 22
    Mon, Mar 25
     Class cancelled for inclement weather
    Glossary 6 due
     
    Wed, Mar 27
    Topic: Game Playing
    Required reading: AIMA, Chapter 5, Section 5.1, 5.2 and 5.4
    Recommended reading:
    WHWK 5, Part I due.
    Glossary 6 due
     
    Fri, Mar 29 
    Topic: Agents that Reasong Logically
    Required reading: AIMA Chapter 6. Sections 6.1 and 6.2
    Recommended reading:
    HWK 5, Part I due.
    Glossary 7 assigned
     
    Mon, Apr 1 
    Topic: Agents that Reasong Logically
    Required reading: AIMA Chapter 6. Sections 6.3 and 6.4
    HWK 5, Part II due.
    Glossary 7 due
    Glossary 8 assigned
    Quiz 4
    Last chance to check Midterm and claim missing grades. 
    Wed, Apr 3
    Topic: Agents that Reasong Logically
    Required reading: AIMA Chapter 6. Sections 6.3 and 6.4
     
     
    Fri, Apr 5
    Topic: Help session and exercises from Chapter 6.
    Required reading: Exercise 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.7, 6.8, 6.9 and/or 6.12
    Recommended reading: 
    HWK 5, Part II due.
    Quiz 5
    GTAs will replace instructor .
    Thank you for your understanding.
    Mon, Apr 8
    Topic: Agents that Reasong Logically
    Required reading: AIMA Chapter 6. Sections 6.3 and 6.4
    Glossary 8 due
    Homework 6 assigned
     
    Wed, Apr 10
    Topic: PL: end :-))
    Required reading:
    Recommended reading:
    Glossary 9 assigned
     
    Fri, Apr 12
    Topic: First oder logic (PART I)
    Required reading: AIMA, Chapter 7, Section 7.1, 7.3
    Recommended reading: Section 7.2
     
     
    Mon, Apr 15
    Topic: First oder logic (PARTII)
    Required reading: AIMA, Chapter 7, Section 7.4, 7.9
    Recommended reading:  Entire chapter
    Glossary 9 due
    Glossary 10 assigned
     
    Wed, Apr 17
    Topic: First oder logic (PARTII)
    Required reading: AIMA, Chapter 7, Section 7.4, 7.9
    Recommended reading:  Entire chapter
    Glossary 11 assigned
     
    Fri, Apr 19
    Topic: First oder logic (PARTII) + Inference in First Order Logic (Part I)
    Required reading: AIMA, Chapter 9, Section 9.1 to 9..4
    Recommended reading:  Entire chapter
     
     
    Mon, Apr 22
    Topic: Help session on FOL
    Required reading: AIMA, Exercice 7.2
    Recommended reading:
    Homework 6 due.
    Glossary 10 due
    Quiz 6
    Instructor is out of town.
    Replaced by GTAs.
    Wed, Apr 24
    Topic: Inference in First Order Logic (Part I and Part II)
    Required reading: AIMA, Chapter 9, Section 9.1 until page 283
    Recommended reading:  Entire chapter
     
     
    Fri, Apr 26
    Topic: Inference in First Order Logic (Part I and Part II)
    Required reading: AIMA, Chapter 9, Section 9.1 until page 283
    Recommended reading:  Entire chapter
    Glossary 11 due
    Glossary 12  assigned
    		  
    Mon, Apr 29
    Topic: 
    Required reading:
    Recommended reading:
    Glossary 12 due
     
    Wed. May 1
    Review 
    Fri, May 3
    Final exam during dead-week

    as announced in class on January 14, 2002.
    Berthe Y. Choueiry

     

     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

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