| Week # | Monday | Wednesday | Friday |
| 1 | Sept 26: no class | Sept 28 Introduction. What is intelligence? Turing test. lecture pdf | Sept 30: A Python Primer. lecture pdf |
| 2 | Oct 3: Python hands-on, plus knowledge representation with inheritance hierarchies. lecture pdf [Meet in MGH 044] | Oct 5: State-space search 1. Missionaries and Cannibals. States, state-spaces, and operators. Blind search. lecture pdf | Oct 7: State-Space Search 2: Problem posing issues. (Assignment 1 due at 2:00 PM.) lecture pdf |
| 3 | Oct 10: Constraints. lecture pdf (topic postponed) | Oct 12: Game Playing 1: Minimaxing, alpha-beta pruning. lecture pdf | Oct 14: Game Playing 2: Checkers, Chess, Zobrist hashing. (Assignment 2 due at 2:00 PM.) lecture pdf |
| 4 | Oct 17: State-Space Search 3: Graph search, Uniform Cost search, A*, admissible heuristics lecture pdf | Oct 19: Genetic Search, TSP. | Oct 21: Search Strategies: Hill climbing, simulated annealing, case-based reasoning. (Assignment 3 due at 2:00 PM.) lecture pdf |
| 5 | Oct 24: AI Architectures: SOAR, CoSolve (topic postponed) | Oct 26: Logic 1: Propositional calculus. lecture pdf | Oct 28: Logic 2: Propositional resolution, forward and backward chaining. (Assignment 4. due at 2:00 PM.) |
| 6 | Oct 31: Logic 3: Predicate calclus. lecture pdf | Nov 2: Logic 4: Encoding knowledge into logic. lecture pdf | Nov 4: Logic 5: PROLOG basics. lecture pdf |
| 7 | Nov 7: Logic 6: Applying PROLOG. (Assignment 5 due at 2:00 PM.) | Nov 9: Demos and practice quiz, plus probabilistic reasoning 1: axioms, counting, odds. [Meet in MGH 044] | Nov 11: Veterans Day Holiday (No class) |
| 8 | Nov 14: Midterm exam. | Nov 16: Probabilistic inference with Bayes' Rule. lecture pdf | Nov 18: Probabilistic inference, continued |
| 9 | Nov 21: Joint distribution, conditional probability, marginals. (Assignment 6 due at 2:00 PM.) lecture pdf | Nov 23: Machine Learning 1: Introduction. Perceptrons. lecture pdf | Nov 25: Thanksgiving holiday |
| 10 | Nov 28: Machine Learning 2: Backprop + ID3 method. lecture pdf | Nov 30: Natural language understanding 1. lecture pdf | Dec 2: Natural language understanding 2. |
| 11 | Dec 5: Project 2 presentations. (Project preliminary code due at 2:00 PM.) [Meet in MGH 044] | Dec 7: Project 2 presentations. [Meet in MGH 044] | Dec 9: The Future of AI. ( Optional K-in-a-Row team agents - code, sample transcript, documentation - due Dec. 10 at 2:00; Project reports and final code due Dec. 14 at 11:45 PM.) lecture pdf |
| Dec 13 (Tuesday): FINAL EXAMINATION 2:30 PM - 4:20 | |||