| Week # | Monday | Wednesday | Friday |
| 1 | Jan 5: Course introduction, definitions of intelligence, the Turing test. | Jan 7: Lisp: Interaction, evaluation of expressions, lists, quoting and extra evaluation | Jan 9: S-expressions and functions; gaining fluency with Lisp. |
| 2 | Jan 12: Recursive functions, looping, functional programming, referential transparency. | Jan 14: Symbols, lexical and dynamic scoping, extent, local and global variables, LET, LET*, explicit application of functions, closures, MAPCAR, EVAL. | Jan 16: Pattern matching using Lisp. Association lists. |
| 3 | Jan 19: Martin Luther King Holiday | Jan 21: String manipulation in Lisp. hashtables, data structures in Lisp, File Input & Output. | Jan 23: Introduction to knowledge representation. |
| 4 | Jan 26: Reasoning with the propositional calculus. | Jan 28: Predicate logic and translating knowledge into it. | Jan 30: Midterm exam 1 |
| 5 | Feb 2: Predicate calculus resolution. | Feb 4: Logic programming. | Feb 6: State space search algorithms: depth-first search, breadth-first search, best-first search, game-tree search. |
| 6 | Feb 9: State-space search, continued: combinatorics of a simple puzzle, recursive depth-first search, uniform-cost search. | Feb 11: A* search algorithms, admissibility of A*. | Feb 13: Genetic search. |
| 7 | Feb 16: Presidents Day Holiday | Feb 18: Case-based reasoning; | Feb 20: Probabilistic reasoning. |
| 8 | Feb 23: Review of searching methods (Also, a midterm review session takes place 5:00PM-6:00PM) | Feb 25: Midterm exam 2 | Feb 27: Natural language understanding: dialog systems, syntax, semantics, case frames, semantic grammars, augmented transition nets. |
| 9 | Mar 1: Perceptual processing: image formation, visual illusions, image representation, sampling and quantization. Image segmentation. | Mar 3: 3-D techniques: stereo vision and stereograms; Shape understanding. | Mar 5: Neural networks: perceptrons and feedforward networks trainable using backpropagation. |
| 10 | Mar 8: Social issues and the future of AI. | Mar 10: Demonstrations - Meet today in MGH 044 | Mar 12: Review |
| 11 | Mar 15: no class | Mar 17: no class. Our final is on Thursday, March 18 from 8:30AM to 10:20AM. | Mar 19: no class |