Detailed Course Schedule

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Dates	Material	Announcements
Week 1
Mon, Jan 9	Topic: Rules of the Game Required reading: AIMA, Section 1.1 Recommended reading: What is AI by John McCarthy
Mon, Jan 9	Recitation from 5:00 to 5:50 pm Get a CSE account Getting Started with Emacs and ACL Intro to Piazza	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.
Wed, Jan 11	Topic:Historical notes
Fri, Jan 13	*Pretest* In-class: closed book, handwritten crib sheet allowed, must be turned in with test
Week 2
Mon, Jan 16	Martin Luther King Day
Wed, Jan 18	Topic: Intelligent Agent Required reading: AIMA Chapter 2 LWH: Chapters Chapter 1, 2, 3, and 4. Recommended reading: Beating the Averages (Paul Graham)	Take-home pretest due Glossary 1 assigned
Fri, Jan 20	Topic: Same as above Required reading: Same as above Recommended reading: Same as above	Homework 1 assigned
Week 3
Mon, Jan 23	Topic: Same as above Required reading: Same as above Recommended reading: Same as above	Glossary 1 due Glossary 2 assigned
Mon, Jan 23	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)	Very first steps in Lisp . The lisp code of the Farmer's dilemma.
Wed, Jan 25
Fri, Jan 27	Topic: Finishing the introduction to Lisp LWH: (Chapter 1, 2, 3, 4, and) 6, 10, 13, 14. Beating the Averages (Paul Graham)	Homework 1 due Quiz in class (part of Homework 1). Homework 2 assigned
Week 4
Mon, Jan 30		Glossary 2 due Glossary 3 assigned
Mon, Jan 30	Recitation from 5:00 to 5:50 pm	..
Wed, Feb 1	Same as above
Fri, Feb 3	Same as above
Week 5
Mon, Feb 6	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	Glossary 3 due Homework 2 due Homework 3 assigned Glossary 4 assigned
Mon, Feb 6	Recitation from 5:00 to 5:50 pm	Quiz 2 (part of Homework 2) in class. Quiz 3 in class.
Wed, Feb 8	Same as above
Fri, Feb 10	Same as above
Week 6
Mon, Feb 13	Topic: 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.	Glossary 4 due Glossary 5 assigned
Mon, Feb 13	Recitation from 5:00 to 5:50 pm	Any questions about your homework 3.
Wed, Feb 15
Fri, Feb 17	Topic: Finish Heuristic Search, Start Local Search. Required reading: Entire Chapter 3, AIMA Chapter 4 LWH: Chapters 6, 10, 13, 14. Recommended reading: LWH: Chapters 9, 11, 12, 17	Homework 3 extended to Monday Feb 20
Week 7
Mon, Feb 20	Topic: Local search . Required reading: AIMA Chapter 4.	Homework 3 due Homework 4 assigned
Mon, Feb 20	Recitation from 5:00 to 5:50 pm.	Quiz 4 Lisp Tutorial #2 .
Wed, Feb 22	Topic: Finish Local Search
Fri, Feb 24	Topic: Adverserial Search Required reading: Section 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 Recommended reading: All Chapter 5.	Glossary 6 assigned Play with the Alpha-beta animation by Yosen Lin, a more flexible one, or the applet from Eastern Michigan University.
Week 8
Mon, Feb 27	Topic: Constraint Satisfaction. Required reading: Chapter 6 Recommended reading: Bartak online guide, Kumar's paper, Bartak's paper (PDF)	Glossary 5 due Homework 4 due Homework 5 due
Mon, Feb 27	Recitation from 5:00 to 5:50 pm	Quiz 5 Shant will introduce the PACMAN(R) project for extra credit
Wed, Feb 29	Same as above (CSPs)
Fri, Mar 2	Same as above (CSPs)	Glossary 6 due Glossary 7 assigned
Week 9
Mon, Mar 5	Same as above (CSPs)
Mon, Mar 5	*Review* from 5:00 to 5:50 pm	Quiz 6 Discussion of some CSP applications and models
Wed, Mar 7	*MidTerm* Closed books. Handwritten, double-sided crib sheet allowed, must be turned in with exam. No proofs included or solutions to examples or problems.
Fri, Mar 9	Same as above (CSPs)
Week 10
Mon, Mar 12	Same as above (CSPs)	Homework 6 assigned Homework 5 delayed until Friday, Mar 16 Glossary 7 due Quiz 7 Glossary 8 assigned
Mon, Mar 12	Recitation from 5:00 to 5:50 pm
Wed, Mar 14	Topic: Logical Agents Required reading: Chapter 7, Sections 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
Fri, Mar 16		Homework 5 due
Week 11
Mon, Mar 19	*Spring vacation*
Wed, Mar 21
Fri, Mar 23
Week 12
Mon, Mar 26		Glossary 8 due
Mon, Mar 26	Recitation: from 5:00 to 5:50 pm
Wed, Mar 28	Topic: Logical Agents Required reading: Chapter 7, Sections 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
Fri, Mar 30	Topic: Same as above Required reading: Same as above	Homework 6 due Homework 7 assigned Glossary 9 assigned
Week 13
Mon, Apr 2	Topic: Same as above First Order Logic Required reading: Chapter 8, Sections 8.1, 8.2, and 8.3	Quiz 8
Mon, Apr 2	Recitation from 5:00 to 5:50 pm
Wed, Apr 4
Fri, Apr 6	Topic: Inference in First Order Logic Required reading: Chapter 9 Recommended reading:	Glossary 9 due Homework 7 due Homework 8 assigned Glossary 10 assigned
Week 14
Mon, Apr 9
Mon, Apr 9	Recitation from 5:00 to 5:50 pm
Wed, Apr 11
Fri, Apr 13	No class - E-Week Open House Homework 8 due Glossary 10 due
Week 15
Mon, Apr 16		Glossary 11 assigned Homework 9 assigned
Mon, Apr 16	Recitation from 5:00 to 5:50 pm
Wed, Apr 18
Fri, Apr 20
Week 16: Dead week
Mon, Apr 23		A quiz may be given Glossary 11 due Homework 9 due
Mon, Apr 23	Recitation from 5:00 to 5:50 pm
Wed, Apr 25
Fri, Apr 27		Final glossary due
Week 17
Tue, May 1	Final Examination From 7:30 am to 9:30 a.m. in Avery Room 108. Closed books. Handwritten, double-sided crib sheet allowed, must be turned in with exam.

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