Week 1
Mon - Aug 31
- Topic: Policies, administration & overview. Playing Mancala
- Read: Preface, Ch. 1 LISP-optional Wilensky
- Event: Mancala Project Exercise Set 1
Wed - Sep 2
- Topic: Intelligence measures and defining features. Physical Symbol System Hypothesis. Brittleness and Turing test
- Read: Ch. 1 LISP-optional Wilensky
- Event: Exercise Set 2
Week 2
Mon - Sep 7
LABOR DAY
Wed - Sep 9
- Topic: Chinese room thought experiment. History of AI and application areas. Representational techniques and languages
- Read: Ch. 2 LISP-optional Wilensky
- Event: N/A
Week 3
Mon - Sep 14
- Topic: Introduction to LISP
- Read: LISP Links
- Event: Exercise 3
Wed - Sep 16
- Topic: Propositional and predicate logic as representation language + Inference rules and algorithms
- Read: Ch 2, 3
- Event: Mancala project: definition and template posted
Week 4
Mon - Sep 21
- Topic: Unification algorithm and example
- Read: Ch 3
- Event:
Wed - Sep 23
- Topic: Graph theory & state space search
- Read: Ch 3
- Event:
Week 5
Mon - Sep 28
- Topic: Data-driven and goal-driven reasoning (Forward and backward chaining)
- Read: Ch 3
- Event:
Wed - Sep 30
- Topic: Backtracking (BFS & DFS)
- Read: Ch 3
- Event: Exercise 4
Week 6
Mon - Oct 5
- Topic: Heuristic search (best-first) + The nature of heuristics
- Read: Ch 4
- Event:
Wed - Oct 7
- Topic: Evaluating heuristics + The A* algorithm + Trade-offs and beam search
- Read: Ch 4
- Event: Mancala Project: spread-stones function DUE by email by midnight, Sun. 10/11
Week 7
Mon - Oct 12
- Topic: Game-playing techniques + Minimax and more discussion of heuristics
- Read: Ch 4
- Event: Mancala Project: Pruning search code
Wed - Oct 14
- Topic: Alpha-beta pruning search
- Read: Ch 4
- Event:
Week 8
Mon - Oct 19
- Topic: Exam Review
- Read: Exam Review Posted
- Event:
Wed - Oct 21
- Topic: EXAM
- Read:
- Event:
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