Detailed Course Schedule

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Week 1
Mon, Jan 14 Topic: Rules of the Game
Required reading: AIMA, Section 1.1
Recommended reading: What is AI by John McCarthy

   
Wed, Jan 16 Topic: Historical notes
Required reading: AIMA: Chapter 1 		 
Wed, Jan 16 Recitation from 5:00 to 6:00 pm Getting Started with Emacs and ACL
  • 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.
    • Fri, Jan 18
    Pretest
    In-class: closed book, handwritten crib sheet allowed, must be turned 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.
    Week 2
    Mon, Jan 21
    Martin Luther King Day
    Wed, Jan 23

    Topic: A Gentle Introduction to Common Lisp
    Required reading: WH: Chapter 1, 2, 3, and 4.
    Beating the Averages   (Paul Graham)

    		Pretest: Take-home pretest is due.
    Homework1 (PS, PDF) assigned
    Glossary 1 assigned
    Wed, Jan 23 Recitation from 5:00 to 6:00 pm Emacs (POSTSCRIPT, PDF). Please go through the online tutorial (accessible from emacs by typing Escape-x (for entering a command), h (h for help), t (t for tutorial).
    Very first steps in Lisp (DOC, PDF).
    Fri, Jan 25 Topic: Intro to Lisp
    Required reading: AIMA Chapter 2.     		 
    Week 3
    Mon, Jan 28

    Topic: Intro to Lisp
    Required reading: LWH: Chapters 5, 7, 8, 15, 16. AIMA Chapter 2
    Recommended reading: LWH: Chapters 9, 11, 12, 17.

    		 Glossary 1 due.
    Wed, Jan 30

    Topic: Same as above
    Required reading: Same as above (LWH: Chapters 5, 7, 8, 15, 16. ).
    Recommended reading: Same as above (LWH: Chapters 9, 11, 12, 17).

    		 Homework 1 due
    Glossary 1 due
    Homework 2 (PS, PDF) assigned
    Wed, Jan 30 Recitation from 5:00 to 6:00 pm Quiz 1
    Next steps in Lisp (PS, PDF).
    Fri, Feb 1

    Topic: Finish Intro to Lisp, if time permits start lecture on Intelligent agents
    Required reading: Same as above
    Recommended reading: Same as above (LWH: Chapters 9, 11, 12, 17).
    Week 4
    Mon, Feb 4

    Topic: Intelligent Agent
    Required reading: AIMA Chapter 2
    and LWH: Chapters 6, 10, 13, 14.
    Recommended reading: Same as above (LWH: Chapters 9, 11, 12, 17).

    		Glossary 2 assigned
    Wed, Feb 6

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

    		 Homework 2 due
    Homework3 assigned
    Wed, Feb 6 Recitation from 5:00 to 6:00 pm Quiz 2
    Fri, Feb 8

    Topic: Same as above
    Required reading: AIMA: Chapter 3, Sections 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6
    Recommended reading: Same as above

    		  
    Week 5
    Mon, Feb 11

    Topic: Same as above
    Required reading: AIMA: Chapter 3, Sections 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6
    Recommended reading: Same as above
    Quiz 3 in class.
    Glossary 2 due
    Glossary 3 assigned
    Wed, Feb 13

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

    		 
    Wed, Feb 13 Recitation from 5:00 to 6:00 pm  
    Fri, Feb 15

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

    		Homework 3 (PS, PDF) due
    Glossary 4 assigned
    Homework 4 (PS, PDF) assigned
    Week 6
    Mon, Feb 18

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

    		 Glossary 3 due
    Wed, Feb 20

    Topic: Solving Problems by Searching
    Required reading: Chapter 4, Section 4.1
    Recommended reading: Same as above

    		 Alert: Quiz 4
    Wed, Feb 20 Recitation from 5:00 to 6:00 pm
    		  
    Fri, Feb 22

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

    		   
    Week 7
    Mon, Feb 25

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

    		 Glossary 4 due
    Wed, Feb 27

    Topic: Informed search Strategies
    Required reading: AIMA Chapter 4, Section 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3

    		 Glossary 5 assigned
    Wed, Feb 27 Recitation from 5:00 to 6:00 pm. Best-first search on the US map.
    Fri, Feb 29 Topic: Same as above.
    Required reading: Same as above
    Recommended reading: Same as above    		 HWK 4 (PS, PDF) due
    Week 8
    Mon, Mar 3

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

    		 Glossary 5 due
    Glossary 6 assigned
    Homework 5 (PS, PDF) assigned
    Retrieve the list of cities
    Wed, Mar 5

    Topic: Local Search (Informed Search Strategies)
    Required reading: Section 4.3
    Recommended reading: TBA

    		   
    Wed, Mar 5 Recitation from 5:00 to 6:00 pm
    		 Alert: Meeting in Room Avh 109
    Alert: Quiz 5
    Fri, Mar 7
    Review
    Respond to Challenge by email until class time.
    Glossary 6 due
    Week 9
    Mon, Mar 10
    MidTerm
    Wed, Mar 12 Topic: Constraint Satisfaction
    Required reading: AIMA, Chapter 5
    Recommended reading:
  • Bartak online guide,
  • Kumar's paper,
  • Bartak's paper: PS, PDF
    		•  Glossary 7 assigned
    Wed, Mar 12 Recitation from 5:00 to 6:00 pm Meet in Lab 28D.
    Discuss HWK 5, due after Spring break
    Do some CSP modeling exercises
    Correction of the midterm
    Exampls a SAT reduction into a CSP
    Fri, Mar 14

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

    		  
    Week 10
    Mon, Mar 17
    Spring vacation
    Wed, Mar 19
    Fri, Mar 21
    Week 11
    Mon, Mar 24

    Topic: CSP
    Required reading: Same as above
    Recommended reading: Same as above
    Homework 6 (PS, PDF) assigned
    Homework 5 (PS, PDF) due
    Glossary 7 due
    Wed, Mar 26

    Topic: CSP
    Required reading: Same as above.

    		 
    Wed, Mar 26 Recitation from 5:00 to 6:00 pm
    		 Recitation will take place in AvH Room 109
    Wed, Mar 26

    Topic: CSP
    Required reading: Same as above.

    		Quiz 6
    Fri, Mar 28

    Topic: Finish CSP
    Required reading: Same as above.

    		HWK6 assigned
    Week 12
    Mon, Mar 31

    Topic: Adverserial Search
    Required reading: AIMA: Sections 6.1, 6.2, and 6.3
    Recommended reading: Play with the Alpha-beta animation

    		Homework 6 (PS, PDF) due
    Homework 7 (PS, PDF) assigned
    Glossary 8 assigned
    Wed, Apr 2

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

    		 
    Wed, Apr 2 Recitation: Alpha-Beta pruning.
    Alert: Meeting in Room Avh 109     		  
    Fri, Apr 4 Topic: Logical Agents
    Required reading: Sections 7.1, 7.2, and 7.3
    Recommended reading:     		 
    Week 13
    Mon, Apr 7 Topic: Same as above
    Required reading: Same as above

    		 Homework 7 (PS, PDF) due
    Homework 8 (PS, PDF) assigned
    Glossary 8 due
    Glossary 9 assigned
    Alert: Quiz 7.
    Wed, Apr 9

    Topic: Logical Agents
    Required reading: Sections 7.1--7.5
    Recommended reading:  

    		  
    Wed, Apr 9 Recitation from 5:00 to 6:00 pm
    		 Recitation in AvH 109
    Fri, Apr 11

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

    		 Alert: Quiz 8
    Week 14
    Mon, Apr 14 Topic: Same as above
    Required reading: Same as above
    		Glossary 9 due
    Wed, Apr 16 Topic: First Order Logic
    Required reading: Chapter 8, Section 8.1, 8.2, and 8.3

      

    Wed, Apr 16 Recitation from 5:00 to 6:00 pm Alert:Quiz 8
    Recitation in AvH 109
    Fri, Apr 18 Topic: First Order Logic
    Required reading: Chapter 8, Section 8.1, 8.2, and 8.3
    		Homework 8 (PS, PDF) due
    Glossary 10 assigned
    Homework 9 (PS, PDF) assigned.
    Week 15
    Mon, Apr 21

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

    		  
    Wed, Apr 23

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

    		  
    Wed, Apr 23 Recitation from 5:00 to 6:00 pm Cancelled.
    Fri, Apr 25

    Topic: TBA
    Required reading: TBA
    Recommended reading:

    		Glossary 10 due
    Homework 9 (PS, PDF) due. Postponed.

    Week 16
    Mon, Apr 28

    Topic: Inference in FOL
    Required reading: Chapter 9
    Recommended reading:

    		..
    Wed, Apr 30

    Topic: Inference in FOL
    Required reading: Chapter 9
    Recommended reading:  

    		 Homework 9 is due.
    Wed, Apr 30 Recitation from 5:00 to 6:00 pm Recitation in Avery Hall Room 109
    Fri, May 2

    Finish Inference in FOL and
    Review session
  • Final glossary due
    • Week 17
    Mon, May 5
    Final Examination
    From 10:00 am to 12:00 pm in Avery Room 111.
    Closed books, handwritten crib sheet allowed, must be turned in with exam.

    Last modified: Wed Apr 30 18:43:40 CDT 2008