| Week # | Monday | Wednesday | Friday |
| 1 | Apr 1: Course introduction, definitions of intelligence, the Turing test. | Apr 3: Lisp: Interaction, evaluation of expressions, lists, quoting and extra evaluation | Apr 5: S-expressions and functions. |
| 2 | Apr 8: Recursive functions, looping, functional programming, referential transparency. | Apr 10: Symbols, lexical and dynamic scoping, extent, local and global variables, LET, LET*. | Apr 12: Explicit application of functions, closures, MAPCAR, EVAL. |
| 3 | Apr 15: Pattern matching using Lisp. Association lists. | Apr 17: String manipulation in Lisp. hashtables, data structures in Lisp, File Input & Output. | Apr 19: Quiz 1. |
| 4 | Apr 22: Introduction to knowledge representation. | Apr 24: Reasoning with the propositional calculus. | Apr 26: Predicate logic and translating knowledge into it. |
| 5 | Apr 29: Predicate calculus resolution. | May 1: Logic programming. | May 3: State space search algorithms: depth-first search, breadth-first search, best-first search, game-tree search. |
| 6 | May 6: State-space search, continued: combinatorics of a simple puzzle, recursive depth-first search, uniform-cost search. | May 8: A* search algorithms, admissibility of A*. | May 10: Genetic search. |
| 7 | May 13: Case-based reasoning; | May 15: Probabilistic reasoning. | May 17: Quiz 2 |
| 8 | May 20: Machine learning via induction of decision trees. | May 22: Natural language understanding: dialog systems, syntax, semantics, case frames, semantic grammars, augmented transition nets. | May 24: Perceptual processing: image formation, visual illusions, image representation, sampling and quantization. Image segmentation. |
| 9 | May 27: Memorial Day Holiday (no class) | May 29: 3-D techniques: stereo vision and stereograms; Shape understanding. | May 31: Neural networks: perceptrons and feedforward networks trainable using backpropagation. |
| 10 | Jun 3: Social issues and the future of AI. | Jun 5: Demonstrations | Jun 7 (Last day of classes): Review |
| 11 | Jun 10: (no class) | Jun 13: FINAL EXAMINATION 8:30-10:20 |