| Week # | Monday | Wednesday | Friday |
| 1 | Jan 6: Course introduction, definitions of intelligence, the Turing test. | Jan 8: Lisp: Interaction, evaluation of expressions, lists, quoting and extra evaluation | Jan 10: S-expressions and functions. |
| 2 | Jan 13: Recursive functions, looping, functional programming, referential transparency. | Jan 15: Symbols, lexical and dynamic scoping, extent, local and global variables, LET, LET*. | Jan 17: Explicit application of functions, closures, MAPCAR, EVAL. |
| 3 | Jan 20: Martin Luther King Holiday | Jan 22: Pattern matching using Lisp. Association lists. | Jan 24: String manipulation in Lisp. hashtables, data structures in Lisp, File Input & Output. |
| 4 | Jan 27: Quiz 1. | Jan 29: Introduction to knowledge representation. | Jan 31: Reasoning with the propositional calculus. |
| 5 | Feb 3: Predicate logic and translating knowledge into it. | Feb 5: Predicate calculus resolution. | Feb 7: Logic programming. |
| 6 | Feb 10: State space search algorithms: depth-first search, breadth-first search, best-first search, game-tree search. | Feb 12: State-space search, continued: combinatorics of a simple puzzle, recursive depth-first search, uniform-cost search. | Feb 14: A* search algorithms, admissibility of A*. |
| 7 | Feb 17: Presidents Day Holiday | Feb 19: Genetic search. | Feb 21: Case-based reasoning; |
| 8 | Feb 24: Probabilistic reasoning. | Feb 26: Quiz 2 | Feb 28: Machine learning via induction of decision trees. |
| 9 | Mar 3: Natural language understanding: dialog systems, syntax, semantics, case frames, semantic grammars, augmented transition nets. | Mar 5: Perceptual processing: image formation, visual illusions, image representation, sampling and quantization. Image segmentation. | Mar 7: 3-D techniques: stereo vision and stereograms; Shape understanding. |
| 10 | Mar 10: Social issues and the future of AI. | Mar 12: Demonstrations and peer evaluations. Meet in MGH 030 and be prepared to demonstrate your program either via an SSH session to a server or by bringing all the necessary code with you. | Mar 14 (last regular class period): Course wrapup. |
| Mar 17 (classes are officially over): optional review session in a room to be announced | Mar 18 (Tuesday): FINAL EXAMINATION 2:30-4:20 |