Detailed Course Schedule

Topic: Planning
Required reading: same as above
Recommended reading: same as above

Dates	Material	Announcements
Week 1
Mon, Jan 12	Topic: Rules of the Game Required reading: AIMA, Section 1.1 Recommended reading: What is AI by John McCarthy
Mon, Jan 12	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 14	Topic: Historical notes Required reading: AIMA: Chapter 1
Fri, Jan 16	Pretest Two parts: In-class: closed book, handwritten crib sheet allowed, must be turned in with test Take-home: due Wed, Jan 21
Week 2
Mon, Jan 19	Martin Luther King Day
Wed, Jan 21	Optional Make-up recitation 6:30-7:30pm Topic: Intelligent Agents 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 23	Topic: Same as above Required reading: Same as above Recommended reading: Same as above	Homework 1 assigned
Week 3
Mon, Jan 26	Topic: Same as above Required reading: Same as above Recommended reading: Same as above	Glossary 1 due Glossary 2 assigned
Mon, Jan 26	Recitation Proceeding with the introduction to Lisp Getting Started with Emacs and ACL. Required reading: LWH: (Chapter 1, 2, 3, 4, and) 6, 10, 13, 14. Beating the Averages (Paul Graham)	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). Using Emacs .
Wed, Jan 28	Topic: Solving Problems by Searching Required reading: AIMA: Chapter 3, Sections 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3 Recommended reading: LWH: Chapters 9, 11, 12, 17.	Quiz 0 (Chapters 1 and 2) .
Fri, Jan 30	Topic: Same as above Required reading: LWH: Chapters 5, 7, 8, 15, 16. Recommended reading: LWH: Chapters 9, 11, 12, 17. Beating the Averages (Paul Graham)	Homework 1 due Quiz 1 in class (part of Homework 1). Homework 2 assigned
Week 4
Mon, Feb 2	Class cancelled due to weather	Glossary 3 assigned
Mon, Feb 2	Recitation Class cancelled due to weather
Wed, Feb 4	Class cancelled due to weather/road conditions
Fri, Feb 6	Topic: Solving Problems by Searching Required reading: AIMA: Chapter 3, Sections 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6 Recommended reading: Read more chapters in LWH	Glossary 2 due
Week 5
Mon, Feb 9	Topic: Same as above Required reading: Same as above Recommended reading: Same as above	Homework 2 due Homework 3 assigned Glossary 3 due Glossary 4 assigned
Mon, Feb 9	Recitation Followed by make-up class from 6:00 to 6:50 PM.	Quiz 2 (part of Homework 2) The lisp code of the Farmer's dilemma. Next steps in Lisp (PDF).
Wed, Feb 11	Topic: Heuristic Search Required reading: Same as above Recommended reading: Same as above
Fri, Feb 13	Topic: Same as above Required reading: Same as above Recommended reading: Same as above
Week 6
Mon, Feb 16	Topic: Same as above Required reading: Same as above Recommended reading: Same as above	Glossary 4 due Glossary 5 assigned
Mon, Feb 16	Recitation	Quiz 3 Lisp: Farmer's dilemma; trace, step, profile
Wed, Feb 18	Topic: Same as above Required reading: Same as above Recommended reading: Same as above	Challenge question assigned today: Prove that the MST is an admissible heuristic for the TSP. Answer by PRIVATE message on Piazza.
Fri, Feb 20	Topic: Local Search Required reading: AIMA: Chapter 4 Recommended reading: Entire Chapter 4 LWH: Chapters 6, 10, 13, 14. LWH: Chapters 9, 11, 12, 17
Week 7
Mon, Feb 23	Topic: Adverserial Search Required reading: Section 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 Recommended reading: All Chapter 5. Play with the Alpha-beta animation by Yosen Lin, or the applet from Eastern Michigan University.	Homework 3 due Glossary 5 due Glossary 6 assigned
Mon, Feb 23	Recitation	Quiz 4
Wed, Feb 25	Topic: Same as above Required reading: Same as above Recommended reading: Same as above
Fri, Feb 27	Topic: Constraint Satisfaction. Required reading: Chapter 6 Recommended reading: Bartak online guide, Kumar's paper, Bartak's paper (PDF)	Homework 4 assigned
Week 8
Mon, Mar 2	Topic: Same as above Required reading: Same as above Recommended reading: Same as above	Glossary 6 due Glossary 7 assigned
Mon, Mar 2	Recitation	Quiz 5
Wed, Mar 4	Topic: Same as above Required reading: Same as above Recommended reading: Same as above
Fri, Mar 6	Topic: Same as above (CSPs) Required reading: Same as above Recommended reading: Same as above	Homework 4 due
Week 9
Mon, Mar 9	Topic: Same as above (CSPs) Required reading: Same as above Recommended reading: Same as above	Glossary 7 due
Mon, Mar 9	Review session	Quiz 6
Wed, Mar 11	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 13	Topic: Finish CSPs Required reading: Focus on AIMA Section 6.5 Recommended reading:
Week 10
Mon, Mar 16	Topic: Logical Agents Required reading: Chapter 7, Sections 7.1, 7.2, 7.3	Glossary 8 assigned Homework 5 assigned
Mon, Mar 16	Recitation
Wed, Mar 18	Topic: Same as above Required reading: Same as above
Fri, Mar 20	Topic: Logical Agents Required reading: Chapter 7, Sections 7.4, 7.5
Week 11
Mon, Mar 23	Spring vacation
Wed, Mar 25
Fri, Mar 27
Week 12
Mon, Mar 30	Topic: Same as above Required reading: Same as above	Glossary 8 due Homework 5 due Homework 6 assigned Glossary 9 assigned
Mon, Mar 30	Recitation Discussion of NP Completeness	Quiz 7
Wed, Apr 1	Topic: Same as above Required reading: Same as above
Fri, Apr 3
Week 13
Mon, Apr 6	Topic:Finish Propositional Logic, Start First Order Logic Required reading: Chapter 8, Sections 8.1, 8.2, and 8.3	Glossary 9 due Glossary 10 assigned
Mon, Apr 6	Recitation	Quiz 8: Propositional Logic
Wed, Apr 8	Topic: First Order Logic Required reading: Chapter 8
Fri, Apr 10	Topic: First Order Logic Required reading: Chapter 8
Week 14
Mon, Apr 13		Homework 6 due Homework 7 assigned Glossary 10 due
Mon, Apr 13	Recitation	Quiz 9
Wed, Apr 15
Fri, Apr 17	No class: E-Week Open House Optional (unless you committed to coming) Lecture by Professor Francesca Rossi Recommended reading: Preference Modeling and Reasoning
Week 15
Mon, Apr 20		Homework 7 due EXTENDED Glossary 11 assigned (time permitting) Homework 8 assigned
Mon, Apr 20	Recitation
Wed, Apr 22	Topic: Finish FOL, Start Planning. Required reading: Chapters 9 and 10 Recommended reading: AIMA Section 10.3 AIMA Sections 11.1--11.4
Fri, Apr 24	Topic: Planning. Required reading: Chapters 9 and 10 Recommended reading: AIMA Section 10.3 AIMA Sections 11.1--11.4
Week 16: Dead week
Mon, Apr 27	Topic: Planning Required reading: same as above Recommended reading: same as above	Homework 7 due Homework 8 due Glossary 11 due
Mon, Apr 27	Recitation	Quiz 10
Wed, Apr 29	Topic: Planning Required reading: same as above Recommended reading: same as above
Fri, May 1		Final glossary due
Week 17: Finals Week
Tue, May 5	Final Examination From 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm in Avery Room 118. Closed books. Handwritten, double-sided crib sheet allowed, must be turned in with exam.