| Week # | Monday | Wednesday | Friday |
| 1 | Jan 7: Lecture (in LOW 102). Course introduction, definition of intelligence, Turing Test. Assignment 1 given out. | Jan 9: Lecture (in LOW 102). Python functions; recursive functions on lists; lambda expressions; mapping; string operations. Example: ISA Hierarchies. | Jan 11: Lab (in MGH 044). Introduction to Python; interaction; function definition and calling; lists; |
| 2 | Jan 14: Lecture (in LOW 102). Pattern-driven processing. Production systems; list matching; regular expressions; application to dialog systems -- the SHRINK. | Jan 16: Lecture (in LOW 102). Reasoning with ISA Hierarchies. | Jan 18: Lab (in MGH 044). Simple Reasoning. Assignment 1 due. Assignment 2 given out. |
| 3 | Jan 21: Martin Luther King Holiday (no class) | Jan 23: Lecture (in LOW 102). Propositional logic, modus ponens, perfect induction, and Wang's algorithm. | Jan 25: Lab (in MGH 044). Dialog Systems. Assignment 2 due. |
| 4 | Jan 28: Lecture (in LOW 102). Introduction to vision: illusions; sampling and quantization, histograms, thresholding, the Hough transform. | Jan 30: Lecture (in LOW 102). Image understanding: edge detection, segmentation into regions; morphology. Assignment 3 given out. | Feb 1: Lab (in MGH 044). Sampling, histograms, thresholding and morphology. |
| 5 | Feb 4: Lecture (in LOW 102). Predicate Logic. Definitions. Horn-clause resolution | Feb 6: Lecture (in LOW 102). Unification and Predicate Calculus Resolution. Assignment 3 due. | Feb 8: Lab (in MGH 044). Horn-clause programming. Assignment 4 given out. |
| 6 | Feb 11: Lecture (in LOW 102). State-Space Search | Feb 13: Lecture (in LOW 102). Probabilistic inference with Bayes' rule. Bayes' networks. | Feb 15: Lab (in MGH 044). Bayes Net Construction. |
| 7 | Feb 18: Presidents Day Holiday (no class) | Feb 20: Lecture (in LOW 102). Bayes Nets (continued) | Feb 22: Lab (in MGH 044). Midterm exam. |
| 8 | Feb 25: Lecture (in LOW 102). Alpha-beta search with Tic-Tac-Toe. Checkers and Chess. | Feb 27: Lecture (in LOW 102). Automated theory formation. | Feb 29: Lab (in MGH 044). Project progress demonstrations. |
| 9 | Mar 3: Lecture (in LOW 102). Natural language understanding: context-free grammars and parsing. Semantic grammars and Semantics: Case frames. Augmented transition networks and the STONE WORLD program. | Mar 5: Lecture (in LOW 102). Neural networks: perceptrons, backpropagation. | Mar 7: Lab (in MGH 044). States and operators in 2-person, 0-sum game playing. |
| 10 | Mar 10: Lecture (in LOW 102). Big issues and the future of AI: common sense, ontologies, dangers of AI, Asimov's rules of robotics, hopes for AI. | Mar 12: Lecture (in LOW 102). Presentations and Demos | Mar 14: Lab (in MGH 044). Second exam. |
| Mar 20 (Thursday): FINAL PRESENTATIONS AND PEER EVALUATIONS 8:30-10:20 |