| Week # | Monday | Wednesday | Friday |
| 1 | Jan 1: (New Years Day -- no class) | Jan 3: Lecture (in SAV 216). Course introduction, definition of intelligence, Turing Test. Assignment 1 given out. | Jan 5: Lab (in MGH 030). Introduction to Python; interaction; function definition and calling; lists; |
| 2 | Jan 8: Lecture (in SAV 216). Python functions; recursive functions on lists; lambda expressions; mapping; string operations. Example: ISA Hierarchies. | Jan 10: Lecture (in SAV 216). Pattern-driven processing. Production systems; list matching; regular expressions; application to dialog systems -- the SHRINK. Reasoning with ISA Hierarchies. | Jan 12: Lab (in MGH 030). Simple Reasoning. Assignment 1 due. Assignment 2 given out. |
| 3 | Jan 15: Martin Luther King Holiday (no class) | Jan 17: Lecture (in SAV 216). Introduction to State-space search | Jan 19: Lab (in MGH 030). Dialog Systems. Assignment 2 due. |
| 4 | Jan 22: Lecture (in SAV 216). Introduction to vision: illusions; sampling and quantization, histograms, thresholding, the Hough transform. Assignment 3 given out. | Jan 24: Lecture (in SAV 216). Image understanding: edge detection, segmentation into regions; morphology. | Jan 26: Lab (in MGH 030). Sampling, histograms, thresholding and morphology. |
| 5 | Jan 29: Lecture (in SAV 216). Propositional logic, modus ponens, perfect induction, and Wang's algorithm. Assignment 3 due. Assignment 4 given out. | Jan 31: Lecture (in SAV 216). Predicate Logic. Definitions. Horn-clause resolution | Feb 2: Lab (in MGH 030). Horn-clause programming. |
| 6 | Feb 5: Lecture (in SAV 216). Unification and Predicate Calculus Resolution. Assignment 4 due. | Feb 7: Lecture (in SAV 216). Probabilistic inference with Bayes' rule. | Feb 9: Lab (in MGH 030). Basics of Two-person, zero-sum game playing, Othello. |
| 7 | Feb 12: Lecture (in SAV 216). Bayes' networks. | Feb 14: Lecture (in SAV 216). Alpha-beta search with Tic-Tac-Toe. Checkers and Chess. A* Search. | Feb 16: Lab (in MGH 030). Midterm exam. |
| 8 | Feb 19: Presidents Day Holiday (no class) | Feb 21: Lecture (in SAV 216). Neural networks: perceptrons, backpropagation. | Feb 23: Lab (in MGH 030). Bayes Net Construction. |
| 9 | Feb 26: Lecture (in SAV 216). Natural language understanding: context-free grammars and parsing. Semantic grammars and Semantics: Case frames. | Feb 28: Lecture (in SAV 216). Augmented transition networks and the STONE WORLD program. | Mar 2: Lab (in MGH 030). Project development. |
| 10 | Mar 5: Lecture (in SAV 216). Big issues and the future of AI: common sense, ontologies, dangers of AI, Asimov's rules of robotics, hopes for AI. | Mar 7: Lecture (in SAV 216). Applications of AI. | Mar 9: Lab (in MGH 030). Demonstrations |
| Mar 15 (Thursday): FINAL EXAMINATION 8:30-10:20 |