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Dates
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Announcements
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| Week 1 |
| Mon, Jan 11 |
Topic: Rules of the Game
Required reading: AIMA, Section 1.1
Recommended reading: What is AI by John McCarthy
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| Mon, Jan 11 |
Recitation from 5:00 to 5:50 pm
Getting Started with Emacs and ACL
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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.
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| Wed, Jan 13 |
Topic:Historical notes
Required reading: AIMA: Chapter 1
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| Fri, Jan 15 |
Pretest
In-class: closed book, handwritten crib sheet allowed, must be
turned in with test
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| Week 2 |
| Mon, Jan 18 |
Martin Luther King Day
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| Wed, Jan 20 |
Topic: Intelligent Agent
Required reading:
AIMA Chapter 2
LWH: Chapters Chapter 1, 2, 3, and 4.
Recommended reading: Beating the
Averages (Paul Graham)
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Take-home pretest due
Glossary 1 assigned
Homework 1 assigned
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| Fri, Jan 22 |
Topic:
Solving Problems by Searching
Required reading: AIMA: Chapter 3, Sections 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3
Recommended reading: Read more chapters in LWH
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| Week 3 |
| Mon, Jan 25 |
Topic: Solving Problems by Searching
Required reading:
AIMA: Chapter 3, Sections 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3
LWH: Chapters 5, 7, 8, 15, 16.
Recommended reading: LWH: Chapters 9, 11, 12, 17.
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Glossary 1 due
Glossary 2 assigned
Homework 1 due
Homework 2 assigned
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| Mon, Jan 25 |
Recitation from 5:00 to 5:50 pm
Getting Started with Emacs and ACL
Required reading:
LWH: (Chapter 1, 2, 3, 4, and) 6, 10, 13, 14.
Beating the
Averages (Paul Graham)
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Quiz 1 (part of Homework 1) in class.
Using Emacs.
The best way to learn Emacs is to 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 .
The lisp code
of the Farmer's dilemma.
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| Wed, Jan 27 |
Topic: Same as above.
Solving Problems by Searching
Required reading:
AIMA: Chapter 3, Sections 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6
LWH: Chapters 5, 7, 8, 15, 16.
Recommended reading: LWH: Chapters 9, 11, 12, 17.
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| Fri, Jan 29 |
Topic: Solving Problems by Searching
Required reading: TBA
Recommended reading: TBA.
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| Week 4 |
| Mon, Feb 1 |
Topic:
Solving Problems by Searching.
Required reading:
AIMA Chapter 4, Section 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
LWH: Chapters 6, 10, 13, 14.
Recommended reading:
LWH: Chapters 9, 11, 12, 17
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Glossary 2 due
Homework 2 due
Glossary 3 assigned
Homework 3 assigned
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| Mon, Feb 1 |
Recitation from 5:00 to 5:50 pm
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Quiz 2 (part of Homework 2)
in class.
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| Wed, Feb 3 |
Topic: Heuristic Search
Required reading: AIMA: Chapter 3, Sections 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6
Recommended reading: Entire Chapter 3
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| Fri, Feb 5 |
Topic: Same as above
Required reading: Same as above
Recommended reading: Same as above
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| Week 5 |
| Mon, Feb 8 |
Topic: Class cancelled: Instructor sick
Required reading:Same as above
Recommended reading: Same as above
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Glossary 3 due
Glossary 4 assigned
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| Mon, Feb 8 |
Recitation from 5:00 to 5:50 pm
Recitation will be held as usual.
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Quiz 3
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| Wed, Feb 10 |
Topic:
Required reading: Same as above
Recommended reading: Same as above
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| Fri, Feb 12 |
Topic: Same as above
Required reading: Same as above
Recommended reading: Same as above.
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Homework 3 due
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| Week 6 |
| Mon, Feb 15 |
Topic: Same as above
Required reading: Same as above
Recommended reading: Same as above
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Homework 3 due
Glossary 4 due
Glossary 5 assigned
Homework 4 assigned
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| Mon, Feb 15 |
Recitation from 5:00 to 5:50 pm
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Quiz 4
Lisp Tutorial #2 .
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| Wed, Feb 17 |
Topic: Finish Heuristic Search, Start Local Search.
Required reading: AIMA Chapter 4
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| Fri, Feb 19 |
Topic: PacMan(R) Project presentation by Shant, finish local search if time permits.
Required reading: AIMA Chapter 4.
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| Week 7 |
| Mon, Feb 22 |
Topic: Adverserial Search
Required reading: Section 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
Recommended reading: All Chapter 5.
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Glossary 5 due
Glossary 6 assigned
Homework 4 due delayed
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| Mon, Feb 22 |
Recitation from 5:00 to 5:50 pm.
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Quiz 4
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| Wed, Feb 24 |
Topic: Adverserial Search
Required reading: Same as above
Recommended reading: Same as above
Play with the Alpha-beta animation
by Yosen Lin
a more
flexible one
an
applet from Eastern Michigan University.
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Homework 4 due (updated)
Homework 5 assigned
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| Fri, Feb 26 |
Topic: Constraint Satisfaction.
Required reading: Chapter 6
Recommended reading:
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| Week 8 |
| Mon, Mar 1 |
Topic: Constraint Satisfaction
Required reading: Chapter 6
Recommended reading:
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Glossary 6 due
Glossary 7 assigned
Discussion of some
CSP applications and models
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Mon, Mar 1 | Recitation from 5:00 to 5:50 pm
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Quiz 5
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| Wed, Mar 3 |
Topic: Same as above
Required reading: Same as above
Recommended reading:
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| Fri, Mar 5 |
Topic: Same as above
Required reading: Same as above
Recommended reading:
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| Week 9 |
| Mon, Mar 8 |
Topic:
Required reading: Same as above
Recommended reading: Same as above
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Glossary 7 due
Homework 5 due delayed.
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| Mon, Mar 8 |
Review from 5:00 to 5:50 pm
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| Wed, Mar 10 |
MidTerm
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| Fri, Mar 12 |
Topic: Same as above
Required reading: Same as above
Recommended reading:
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| Week 10 |
| Mon, Mar 15 |
Spring vacation
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| Wed, Mar 17 |
| Fri, Mar 19 |
| Week 11 |
| Mon, Mar 22 |
Topic: Logical Agents
Required reading: Chapter 7, Sections 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
Recommended reading:
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Homework 5 due
Homework 6 assigned
Glossary 8 assigned
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| Mon, Mar 22 |
Recitation from 5:00 to 5:50 pm
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Quiz 6
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| Wed, Mar 24 |
Topic: Same as above
Required reading: Same as above
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| Fri, Mar 26 |
Topic: Same as above
Required reading: Same as above
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| Week 12 |
| Mon, Mar 29 |
Topic: Same as above
Required reading: Same as above
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Homework 6 due
Homework 7 assigned
Glossary 8 due
Glossary 9 assigned
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| Mon, Mar 29 |
Recitation: from 5:00 to 5:50 pm
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John Tooker discusses his implementation of A* for solving the sliding-tile puzzle |
| Wed, Mar 31 |
Topic: Same as above
Required reading: Same as above
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| Fri, Apr 2 |
Topic: First Order Logic
Required reading: Chapter 8, Sections 8.1, 8.2, and 8.3
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| Week 13 |
| Mon, Apr 5 |
Topic: Same as above
Required reading: Same as above
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Homework 7 due
Homework 8 assigned
Glossary 9 due
Glossary 10 assigned
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| Mon, Apr 5 |
Recitation from 5:00 to 5:50 pm
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Quiz 7
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| Wed, Apr 7 |
Topic: FOL
Required reading: Chapter 8
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| Fri, Apr 9 |
Topic: Inference in First Order Logic
Required reading: Chapter 9
Recommended reading:
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| Week 14 |
| Mon, Apr 12 |
Topic: Inference in FOL
Required reading: Chapter 9
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Glossary 10 due
Glossary 11 assigned
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| Mon, Apr 12 |
Recitation from 5:00 to 5:50 pm
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Quiz 8
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| Wed, Apr 14 |
Topic: Finish FOL, Start Planning.
Required reading: Chapters 9 and 10
Recommended reading:
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| Fri, Apr 16 |
Topic: Planning
Required reading: Chapter 10
Recommended reading:
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Homework 8 due
Homework 9 assigned
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| Week 15 |
| Mon, Apr 19 |
Topic:
Required reading:
Recommended reading:
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Glossary 11 due
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| Mon, Apr 19 |
Recitation from 5:00 to 5:50 pm
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| Wed, Apr 21 |
Topic:
Required reading: TBA
Recommended reading: TBA
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| Fri, Apr 23 |
Class is canceled for E-Week.
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| Week 16: Dead week |
| Mon, Apr 26 |
Topic:
Required reading: TBA
Recommended reading:
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A quiz may be given
Homework 9 due
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| Mon, Apr 26 |
Recitation from 5:00 to 5:50 pm
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A quiz may be given
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| Wed, Apr 28 |
Topic: TBA
Required reading: TBA
Recommended reading: TBA
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A quiz may be given
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| Fri, Apr 30 |
Review session
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Final glossary due
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| Week 17 |
| Tue, May 4 |
Final Examination
From 7:30 am to
9:30 a.m. in Avery Room 112.
Closed books.
Handwritten,
double-sided crib sheet allowed, must be turned in with
exam.
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