Class |
Date |
Topic |
Reading |
Homework |
Comments |
| 1 | W 8/27 | Introduction | Ch. 1, Lisp Ch. 1, McCarthy paper | HW1(PW) out | Slides |
| 2 | W 9/3 | Agents/Lisp | Ch. 2, Lisp Ch. 2-3, Graham
article
Useful website: http://www.apl.jhu.edu/~hall/lisp.html |
Slides | |
| 3 | M 9/8 | Problem solving as search; Lisp | Ch. 3.1-3.3, Lisp Ch. 4-5, App. A | Slides | |
| 4 | W 9/10 | Uninformed search | Ch. 3.4-3.7 | Slides: see above | |
| 5 | M 9/15 | Informed search | Ch. 4.1-4.2, Lisp Ch. 7 | HW1 due; HW2(PW) out | Slides |
| 6 | W 9/17 | Local search | Ch. 4.3, 4.5 | Slides: See above; 8puzzle.lisp | |
| 7 | M 9/22 | Constraint satisfaction | Ch. 5.1-5.5; Vipin Kumar, "Algorithms for Constraint Satisfaction Problems: A Survey"; Roman Bartak, "Constraint Programming: In Pursuit of the Holy Grail" | Student evaluation #1 | Slides |
| 8 | W 9/24 | Game playing | Ch. 6.1-6.3 | Project description out | Slides |
| 9 | M 9/29 | Game playing II | Ch. 6.4-6.7 | HW2 due; HW3(PW) out | Slides: See above |
| 10 | W 10/1 | Knowledge-based agents | Ch. 7.1-7.3 | Project teams formed | Slides |
| 11 | M 10/6 | Propositional logic | Ch. 7.4-7.8 | Slides | |
| 12 | W 10/8 | First-order logic | Ch. 8.1-8.3, 8.5 | Slides | |
| 13 | M 10/13 | Philosophy and history of AI | Chronology of AI; Ch. 26, Turing article; Searle article | HW3 due | Slides |
| 14 | W 10/15 | Logical inference; review for midterm | Ch. 9 | Project proposal due | Slides; Another FOL resolution example |
| 15 | M 10/20 | MIDTERM | |||
| 16 | W 10/22 | Knowledge representation | Ch. 10.1-10.3, 10.6 (skim), 10.9 | HW4(W) out. | Slides |
| 17 | M 10/27 | State-space planning | Ch. 11.1-11.2 | Student evaluation #2 | Slides |
| 18 | W 10/29 | Partial-order planning | Ch. 11.3 | Dr. desJardins out of town; Prof. Tim Finin will guest lecture. | Slides: see above |
| 19 | M 11/3 | Graphplan and Satplan | Ch. 11.4-11.7 | Dr. desJardins out of town; Prof. Tim Oates will guest lecture. | Slides |
| 20 | W 11/5 | Scheduling and hierarchical planning | Ch. 12 | HW4 due; HW5(W) out. | Slides |
| 21 | M 11/10 | Probabilistic reasoning | Ch. 13 | Slides | |
| 22 | W 11/12 | Bayesian networks | Ch. 14.1-14.3 | Project design due; individual reports due | Slides |
| 23 | M 11/17 | Bayes net inference | Ch. 14.4-14.8 | Slides: See above | |
| 24 | W 11/19 | Machine learning; decision trees | Ch. 18.1-18.3 | HW5 due; HW6(W) out. | Slides |
| 25 | M 11/24 | Version spaces, computational learning theory | Ch. 19.1, 18.5-18.6, additional reading to be distributed | Slides: See above | |
| 26 | W 11/26 | Decision theory | Ch. 16 | Slides | |
| 27 | M 12/1 | Multi-agent systems | Ch. 12.7; Jennings et al., "A roadmap of agent research and development"; desJardins et al., "A survey of research in distributed, continual planning" | Slides | |
| 28 | W 12/3 | Other topics in AI; research directions in AI | Ch. 27; additional reading TBA | (Tournament dry run)
HW6 due. Draft final report due |
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| 29 | M 12/8 | Tournament | Tournament | ||
| M 12/15 | PROJECT AND FINAL REPORT DUE | Project and final report due | |||
| -- | M 12/15 | FINAL EXAM, 1-3 p.m. | Final exam |