CSCE 476/876, Spring 2005: Class schedule

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Homework:

Homework

Assigned date

Due date
Homework 1: Learning Lisp with the Adaptive Remote Agent. Friday, Jan 21 2005. Friday, Jan 28, 2005.
Homework 2: Learning Lisp with the Adaptive Remote Agent (II). Friday, Jan 28 2005. Friday, Feb 4, 2005.
Homework 3: Programming in Lisp Monday Feb 7, 2005 Monday Feb 14, 2005
Homework 4: Intelligent Agents and Problem Solving Wednesday Feb 16, 2005 Monday Feb 28, 2005
Homework 5: Implementing and testing Search Monday March 7, 2005 Delayed until Monday March 28, 2005
Homework 6: Constraint Satisfaction Monday March 28, 2005 Monday April 4, 2005
Homework 7: Games and Logic Friday April 8, 2005 Friday April 15, 2005
BONUS Homework 8:First Order Logic Wednesday April 20, 2005 Wednesday April 27, 2005

Handouts:

  1. Syllabus and grading strategy
  2. Introduction and rules: Instructor notes #1 (postscript, PDF).
  3. What is AI? by John McCarthy (postscript).
  4. Quick historical notes: Instructor notes #2 (postscript, PDF).
  5. A Little Bit of Lisp: Instructor notes #3 (postscript, PDF).
  6. Intelligent Agents: Instructor notes #4 (postscript, PDF).
  7. Solving Problems by Searching: Instructor notes #5 (postscript, PDF).
  8. Solving Problems by Searching (II): Instructor notes #6 (postscript, PDF).
  9. Heuristic Search: Instructor notes #7 (postscript, PDF).
  10. Constraint Satisfaction: Instructor notes #8 (postscript, PDF).
  11. Adverserial Search: Instructor notes #9 (postscript, PDF).
  12. Logical Agents I: Instructor notes #10 (postscript, PDF).
  13. Logical Agents II: Instructor notes #11 (postscript, PDF).
  14. First-Order Logic: Instructor notes #12 (postscript, PDF).
  15. Inference in First-Order Logic: Instructor notes #13 (postscript, PDF).

Glossaries:

  1. Glossary 1
  2. Glossary 2
  3. Glossary 3
  4. Glossary 4
  5. Glossary 5
  6. Glossary 6
  7. Glossary 7
  8. Glossary 8
  9. Glossary 9
  10. Glossary 10

Exercises treated during Recitation:

  1. Emacs & Lisp: Recitation 1 (postscript, PDF)
  2. Problem Solving: Recitation 2 (postscript, PDF)
  3. Empty Game Tree (postscript, PDF)
  4. Inference in Logic: Recitation 3 (postscript, PDF)

Detailed schedule:

Dates
Material
Announcements
Mon, Jan 10 Topic: Rules of the game
Required reading: AIMA, Section 1.1
Recommended reading: What is AI by John McCarthy

   
Wed, Jan 12 Topic Historical notes
Required reading:AIMA: Chapter 1
Wed, Jan 12 Make-up class/Recitation cancelled  
Fri, Jan 14 Classroom change: class will be held in Avery 110 from now until the end of the semester
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 Wednesday Jan 21
  • Make sure to check out whether or not you took CSCE310 (or equivalent) and provide your grade.
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    Mon, Jan 17
    Martin Luther King Day
    Wed, Jan 19

    Topic: Same as above
    Required reading:   Same as above
    Recommended reading:   Same as above
  • Ryan Lim has moved to Room 123D
  • Glossary 1 assigned
  • Pretest: Take-home pretest is due.
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    Wed, Jan 19 Recitation from 5:00 to 6:00 pm
  • Get your free (time-limited) version of ACL. 
  • Details on using Lisp available from web pages of Eric Moss.
  • 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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    Fri, Jan 21 Topic: A Gentle Introduction to Common Lisp
    Required reading:
  • LWH: Chapter 1, 2, 3, and 4. 
  • Beating the Averages   (Paul Graham)
    		•  Homework1 assigned
    Mon, Jan 24

    Topic: Finish the intro to Lisp, if time permits start lecture on Intelligent agents
    Required reading: AIMA Chapter 2.
    Recommended reading:  
  • Glossary 1 due
    		•
    Wed, Jan 26

    Topic: Same as above, Farmer's dilemma as a planning problem
    Required reading: AIMA Chapter 2. LWH Chapters 5, 6, 7, and 15

      

    Wed, Jan 26 Recitation from 5:00 to 6:00 pm Emacs & Lisp: Recitation 1 (postscript, PDF)
    Fri, Jan 28

    Topic: Intelligent agents
    Required reading: Same as above
    Recommended reading:  
  • Quiz 1
  • Homework 1 due
  • Homework2 assigned
    • Mon, Jan 31

    Topic: Same as above
    Required reading: Same as above
    Recommended reading: Same as above
  • Glossary 2 assigned
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    Wed, Feb 2

    Topic:   Solving Problems by Searching
    Required reading:   AIMA: Chapter 3, Sections 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3
    Recommended reading:   LWH: Chapter 13

      

    Wed, Feb 2 Recitation from 5:00 to 6:00 pm

      

    Fri, Feb 4

    Topic:   Same as above
    Required reading:   Same as above
    Recommended reading:   Same as above
  • Quiz 2
  • Homework2 due
  • Glossary 2 due
    		•
    Mon, Feb 7

    Topic:   Finishing the above. If time permits: Uninformed search strategies
    Required reading:

  • AIMA: Sections 3.4, 3.5, 3.6 and 3.7.
  • LWH: Chapters 8 and 13

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  • Glossary 3 assigned
  • Homework 3 assigned
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    Wed, Feb 9

    Topic:   Uninformed search strategies
    Required reading:   Same as above
    Recommended reading:   Same as above
  • Quiz 3
    • Wed, Feb 9 Recitation from 5:00 to 6:00 pm

      

    Fri, Feb 11

    Topic:   Same as above
    Required reading:   Same as above
    Recommended reading:   Same as above

      

    Mon, Feb 14

    Topic:   Same as above
    Required reading:   Same as above
    Recommended reading:   Same as above
  • Glossary 3 due
  • Homework 3 due
  • Glossary 4 assigned
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    Wed, Feb 16

    Topic:   Same as above
    Required reading:  Same as above
    Recommended reading:  Same as above
  • Quiz 4
  • HWK4 assigned
    • Wed, Feb 16 Recitation from 5:00 to 6:00 pm
    Recitation 2 (postscript, PDF)     		Bring your textbooks along...
    Fri, Feb 18

    Topic:   Informed search Strategies
    Required reading:  Chapter 4, Section 4.1
    Recommended reading:  

      

    Mon, Feb 21

    Topic:   Same as above
    Required reading:   Chapter 4, Section 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3
    Recommended reading:   Formal Properties of Heuristic Methods (Heuristics, J. Pearl)

      

    Wed, Feb 23

    Topic:   Same as above
    Required reading:   Same as above
    Recommended reading:   Same as above

      

    Wed, Feb 23 Recitation from 5:00 to 6:00 pm
  • Glossary 5 assigned
    • Fri, Feb 25

    Topic:  Same as above
    Required reading:  Same as above
    Recommended reading:  Same as above
  • Quiz 5
    • Mon, Feb 28

    Topic:  Same as above
    Required reading:  Same as above
    Recommended reading:  Same as above
  • HWK4 due
  • Glossary 5 due
    • Wed, Mar 2

    Topic:  Iterative Improvement Search
    Required reading:  Same as above
    Recommended reading:  Same as above

      

    Wed, Mar 2 Recitation from 5:00 to 6:00 pm

      

    Fri, Mar 4
    Review
    Mon, Mar 7
    MidTerm
  • HWK 5 assigned
  • Glossary 6 assigned
    • Wed, Mar 9

    Topic:   CSP
    Required reading:  AIMA: Chapter 5
    Recommended reading:

  • Bartak online guide,
  • Kumar's paper,
  • Bartak's paper
    •  

      

    Wed, Mar 9 Recitation from 5:00 to 6:00 pm

      

    Fri, Mar 11

    Topic:  
    Required reading:  
    Recommended reading:  
  • Glossary 6 due
  • Glossary 7 assigned
    • Mon, Mar 13
    Spring vacation
    Wed, Mar 15
    Fri, Mar 17
    Mon, Mar 21

    Topic:  Same as above
    Required reading:  Same as above
    Recommended reading:   Same as above

      

    Wed, Mar 23

    Topic:   Same as above
    Required reading:  Same as above
    Recommended reading:  Same as above

      

    Wed, Mar 23 Recitation from 5:00 to 6:00 pm

      

    Fri, Mar 25

    Topic:   Same as above
    Required reading:  Same as above
    Recommended reading:   Same as above
  • Dealine for HWK 5 extended to Monday Marcyh 28
    • Mon, Mar 28

    Topic:   Same as above
    Required reading:   Same as above
    Recommended reading:  Same as above
  • Glossary 7 due
  • HWK 5 due
  • Glossary 8 assigned
  • HWK 6 assigned
    • Wed, Mar 30 Topic:  Adverserial search
    Required reading: AIMA: Sections 6.1, 6.2, and 6.3
    Recommended reading: Play with the Alpha-beta animation
  • Quiz 6
    • Wed, Mar 30 Recitation: canceled.

      

    Fri, Apr 1

    Topic:  Same as above
    Required reading:   Same as above
    Recommended reading:   Same as above

      

    Mon, Apr 4

    Topic:  Finishing Adverserial Search. Starting Logical Agents.
    Required reading:   Sections 7.1, 7.2, and 7.3
    Recommended reading:  

      

    Wed, Apr 6

    Topic:   Same as above
    Required reading:   Same as above
    Recommended reading:   Same as above
  • Glossary 9 assigned
    • Wed, Apr 6 Recitation from 5:00 to 6:00 pm
    Exercising on game trees.

      

    Fri, Apr 8

    Topic:   Logical Agents
    Required reading:   Sections 7.4, and 7.5
    Recommended reading:  
  • HWK 7 assigned
    • Mon, Apr 11

    Topic:   Same as above
    Required reading:   Same as above
  • Glossary 9 due
    • Wed, Apr 13

    Topic:   Same as above
    Required reading:   Same as above

      

    Wed, Apr 13 Recitation from 5:00 to 6:00 pm

      

    Fri, Apr 15

    Topic:   Same as above
    Required reading:   Same as above
  • HWK 7 due
    • Mon, Apr 18

    Topic:  First-Order Logic
    Required reading:   Chapter 8, Section 8.1, 8.2, and 8.3
    Recommended reading:  Entire chapter

      

    Wed, Apr 20

    Topic:   Same as above
    Required reading:   Same as above
    Recommended reading:   Same as above
  • BONUS HWK8 assigned
  • Glossary 10 assigned
    		•
    Wed, Apr 20 Recitation from 5:00 to 6:00 pm
  • Correction of HWK 7
  • Recitation 3 (postscript, PDF)
    • Fri, Apr 22

    Topic: Inference in FOL
    Required reading: Chapter 9
    Recommended reading:  
  • Quiz 7
    		•
    Mon, Apr 25

    Topic: Same as above.
    Required reading: Same as above.

      

    Wed, Apr 27

    Topic: Same as above.
    Required reading: Same as above.
  • BONUS HWK8 due
  • Glossary 10 due
    		•
    Wed, Apr 27 Recitation from 5:00 to 6:00 pm Cancelled for CSE award ceremony
    Fri, Apr 29

    Review session
  • Final glossary due
    • Fri, May 6
    Final Examination

    Berthe Y. Choueiry

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