CSCE 476/876, Spring 2003: Class schedule

Your  catch:

Under this item, web pages of interest to the class will be listed. Every student is welcome to propose a link he or she find of interest. The student's name will be mentioned.

Here are some items proposed by the class of Spring 2003:

• Jason Williams Search for Paycheck
• Jason Williams Wumpus world
• Journal of Machine Learning Gossip (hilarious AND very instructive)
• Jeff Ifland: Consistency Based CSP Solver
• Jeff Ifland: Swarm Music
• Kye Halsted: A* Tutorial
• Ryan Lim: Java Applets with Search
• From Pablo Miranda Garcia: AIMA, Chapter 3, Handout of Jeff Thomson

 
Catch of the class of Spring'2002:
• Eric Moss: Artificial Intelligence in the WWW Virtual Library.
• Eric Moss: Parenthetically Speaking (with Kent M. Pitman)
• Jason (Soon-Myung) Lee: Free LispWorks from Xanalys
• Eric Moss: Artificial Life: Steve Grand's Lucy Project   (headlines of the NYTimes on Feb 2, 2002)
• Eric Moss:  Huffman code in Common Lisp (with interface in Lispworks to display the tree). Code written by Eric.
• Eric Moss: Paul Graham puts his book On Lisp available on-line.  Also made available locally for your convenience.
• Lucas Sabalka: Documentation on hash tables in Lisp  Link apparently dead :-(
• From the News: ITA Software Uses Lisp technology to help set Orbitz apart from other travel Sites
•  AI in the News ,  from AAAI
• Jason Ryan: Terrarium

Homework	Assigned data	Due date
Homework 1 . Learning Lisp with the Remote Agent. You may use the Adaptive Remote Agent at  http://art2.ph-freiburg.de/Lisp-Course	Wednesday, Jan 22, 2003	Wednesday, Jan 29, 2003. You may use webhandin
Homework 2 .  Adaptive Remote Agent, Part II.	Wed, Jan 29, 2003.	Wed, Feb 05, 2003.
Homework 3 .  Using Emacs and Common Lisp	Wed, Feb 5, 2003.	Mon, Feb 24, 2003.
Homework 4	Wed, Feb 26, 2003.	Pen & paper: Mon, March 4, 2003 Programming: Fri, March 14, 2003
Homework 5	Friday, March 14, 2003	Monday, March 31, 2003 Questions 1,2, and 3 Question 4, sketch Monday, April 7th, 2003. Question 4 (Handin)
Homework 6	Wed, April 16, 2003	Monday, April 28, 2003

Handouts:

1. Syllabus and grading strategy
2. Introduction and rules: Instructor notes #1
3. Clarification of the rules: Instructor notes #2
4. Beating the Average s  (Paul Graham)
5. Historical notes: Intructor's notes #3
6. A little bit of Lisp.  Instructor notes # 4
7. Problem Solving by earching. Instructor notes #5
8. Glossary 3. Instructor notes # 6
9. Problem solving by searching.  Instructor n otes #7.
10. Glossary 4: Instructor's notes # 8
11. Heuristic search, Instructor notes #9
12. Glossary 5: Instructor notes #10
13. CSP: Instructors' notes #11
14. Glossary 6: Instructor notes #12
15. Game Playing: Instructor notes #13
16. Glossary 7: Instructor notes #14
17. Agents that reason logically: Instructor notes #15
18. Glossary 8: Instructor notes #16
19. Alpha-beta example from AIMA 2nd Edition
20. Alpha-beta example from "AI: a New Synthesis" by Nils Nillsson
21. Agents that reason logically: Instructor notes #17
22. Glossary 9: Instructor notes #18
23. First Order Logic I:    Instructor notes #19
24. Glossary 10:  Instructor's notes # 20
25. First Order Logic II:   Instructor notes #21
26. Glossary 11:  Instructor's notes # 22
27. 
    

Dates	Material	Homework & Tests	Announcements and notifications
Mon, Jan 13	Topic: Rules of 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.
Wed, Jan 15	Topic: Historical notes, Intelligent agents Required reading: AIMA Historical notes (Chapter 1), Intelligent agents (Chapter 2)  Recommended reading: Beating the Average s  (Paul Graham)		The research assistants at the Constraint Systems Laboratory (Building 501, Room 3) will be available for help according to the following schedule.  Kindly strictly respect it: Dan Buettner,  Wed 9:00 am to 10:00 am, buettner@cse.unl.edu Joel Gompert, Tue 9:30 am  to 10:30 am, jgompert@cse.unl.edu Lin Xu, Mon 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm , lxu@cse.unl.edu Hui Zou, Fri 10:00 am to 11:00 am , hzou@cse.unl.edu
Fri, Jan 17	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  Make sure to check out whether or not you took CSCE310 (or equivalent) and provide your grade.
Mon, Jan 20	Martin Luther King Day
Wed, Jan 22	Topic: Historical notes, Intelligent agents Required reading: AIMA Historical notes (Chapter 1), Intelligent agents (Chapter 2)  Recommended reading:  Beating the Average s  (Paul Graham)  Chronology of AI What is AI (McCarthy)	Homework 1 assigned	Take home pretest is due.  Glossary #1 due Ask your questions about Lisp/emacs.  Xemacs + ACL Keystroke accelerators  Get your free (time-limited) version of ACL.  Instructions on using xemacs and AC on the PCs.
Fri, Jan 24	Topic: Gentle introduction to Common Lisp Required reading:  LWH: Chapter 1, 2, 3, and 4.  Recommended reading:  LWH: Chapter 1, 2, 3, and 4.  (Lisp)Overview of language constructs , by Donald Ross		You may use the Adaptive Remote Agent at  http://art2.ph-freiburg.de/Lisp-Course Ask your questions about Lisp/emacs.
Mon, Jan 27	Topic: Correction of Pretest (2 parts) Same as before		Ask your questions about Lisp/emacs.
Wed, Jan 29	Topic: Finish gentle intro to Lisp, Intelligent Agents (AIMA) Required reading: same as before (LWH and AIMA) Recommended reading: same as before	Homework1 due. Homework2 assigned	Quiz 1 on content of Homework1.
Fri,  Jan 31	Topic:  same as before Required reading:  AIMA (same as before) LWH: Chapter 5, 6, 7, 15		Last day for claiming missing points on Glossary 1 and the Pretest. Extra help session on Friday. Don't miss, please confirm to zyang@cse.unl.edu.
Mon, Feb 3	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: If you have not yet read LWH, please do.	Glossary 2 assigned	Ask your questions about Lisp/emacs.
Wed, Feb 5	Topic: Same as previous. Required reading: LWH: Chapter 8, 10, 13, 14, 16 Recommended reading: if you have not yet read LWH, please do.	Homework2 due. Homework3 assigned	Ask your questions about Lisp/emacs.
Fri, Feb 7	Topic: Solving problems by searching. Required reading: AIMA, Chapter 3. Recommended reading:
Mon, Feb 10	Topic: same as previous Required reading:  Recommended reading:	Glossary 2 due Glossary 3 assigned	Quiz 3
Wed, Feb 12	Topic:  Review of NP completeness.		GTA office hours for Thu Feb 13 cancelled.  Replaced by offfice hours on Friday Feb 14, 2:00-3:00. Extra help session on Thu Feb 13, 2003.  Please RSVP zyang@cse if you plan to attend.
Fri, Feb 14	Topic: same as Feb 14.	Glossary 3 due	GTA offfice hours: 2:00-3:00..
Mon, Feb 17	Topic: Solving problems by searching. Required reading: AIMA, Chapter 3.	Glossary 4 assigned	Quiz 4
Wed, Feb 19	Topic: same as previous Recommended reading:	Glossary 5 assigned
Fri, Feb 21	Topic: Heuristic search Required reading: AIMA Chapter 4. LWH: Chapters 13 and 14
Mon, Feb 24	Topic: same as previous	Homework3 due Glossary 4 due
Wed, Feb 26	Topic: same as previous	Homework 4 assigned	Quiz 5
Fri, Feb 28	Topic: same as previous	Glossary 5 due
Mon, Mar 3	Topic: same as previous	Homework 4 (pen & paper) due	Quiz 6
Wed, Mar 5	Review
Fri, Mar 7	Mid-term IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: THE AI COURSE CHALLENGE
Mon, Mar10	Topic: CSP Required reading:   AIMA: Section 3.7 (Chapter 3) and pages 104 & 114 (chapter4)  I ntroduction 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.    Connstraint Programming: In Pursuit of the Holy Grail. Bartak. in Proceedings of WDS99 (invited talk), Prague, June 1999	Glossary 6 assigned
Wed, Mar12	Topic: Intro to CSP Required reading: same as above
Fri, Mar14	Topic: same as above	Homework 4 (programming due) HWK 5 assigned
Mon, Mar 17	Spring vacation
Wed, Mar 19
Fri, Mar 21
Mon, Mar 24	Topic: same as above	Glossary 6 due
Wed, Mar 26	Topic: CSP Required reading:  Recommended reading:
Fri, Mar 28	Topic: CSP Required reading:  Recommended reading:	Glossary 7 assigned	Quiz 7
Mon,  Mar 31	Topic: CSP, Game Playing Required reading: AIMA, Chapter 5, Section 5.1, 5.2 and 5.4	HWK 5, Q1, 2 and 3 and sketch of Q 4 due
Wed, Apr 2	Topic: Game Playing Required reading: AIMA, Chapter 5, Section 5.1, 5.2 and 5.4
Fri, Apr 4	Topic:  Game Playing,  starting Agents that reason logically Required reading:  AIMA, Chapter 5, Section 5.1, 5.2 and 5.4  AIMA Chapter 6. Sections 6.3 and 6.4   Recommended reading:	Glosssary 8 assigned Glossary 7 due
Mon, Apr 7	Topic: Agents that reason logically Required reading: AIMA Chapter 6. Sections 6.1 and 6.2	Homework5, question 4 due by handin
Wed, Apr 9	Same as before.		Make-up session on Thu April 10, 2003.
Fri, Apr 11	Topic: Agents that reason logically Required reading: AIMA Chapter 6. Sections 6.3 and 6.4 Recommended reading:	Glossary 9 assigned Glossary 8 due
Mon, Apr 14	Topic:  Required reading:  Recommended reading:
Wed, Apr 16	Topic:  First Order Logic Required reading:  Chapter 7, Sections 7.1 and 7.3 Recommended reading:	Homework6 assigned
Fri, Apr 18	Topic: same as before Required reading:  Recommended reading:	Glossary 9 due Glossary 10 assigned
Mon, Apr 21	Topic: same as before Required reading:  Recommended reading:
Wed, Apr 23	Topic: First order logic Required reading:  Chapter 7, Sections 7.4 and 7.9 Recommended reading:
Fri, Apr 25	Topic: same as before Required reading:	Glossary 10 due
Mon, Apr 28	Topic: Inference in FOL Required reading: Chapter 9, Sections 9.1 and 9.4	Homework 6 due Glossary 11 assigned
Wed, Apr 30	Topic: Inference in FOL Required reading: Chapter 9, Sections 9.5, 9.6	.	.
Fri, May 2	Review  Glossary 11 due
Mon, May 5	Final exam

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