| Week # | Monday | Wednesday | Friday |
| 1 | Sept 27: no class | Sept 29 Introduction. What is intelligence? Turing test. lecture pdf | Oct 1: A Python Primer. lecture pdf |
| 2 | Oct 4: Lab session: meet in MGH 044. Image Understanding 1. lecture pdf | Oct 6: Image Understanding 2. lecture pdf | Oct 8: Image Understanding 3. (A1 due, incl. Python exercises). lecture pdf |
| 3 | Oct 11: Lab session: meet in MGH 044. Knowledge representation with inheritance hierarchies. lecture pdf | Oct 13: ISA Hierarchies (continued) | Oct 15: State-space search 1. Missionaries and Cannibals. Painted Squares. Combinatorial explosion. Blind search. (A2 due, incl. image understanding problems and ISA hierarchy enhancements). lecture pdf |
| 4 | Oct 18: Lab session: meet in MGH 044. State-Space Search 2: State space structures, problem posing issues. lecture pdf | Oct 20: Python programming techniques. lecture pdf | Oct 22: Game Playing 1: Minimaxing, alpha-beta pruning. lecture pdf |
| 5 | Oct 25: Game Playing 2: Checkers, Chess, Zobrist hashing. lecture pdf | Oct 27: State-Space Search 3: Graph search, Uniform Cost search, A*, admissible heuristics. lecture pdf | Oct 29: State-Space Search (continued). |
| 6 | Nov 1: State-Space Search (continued). | Nov 3: Search strategies: Hill climbing, simulated annealing (A3 due). lecture pdf | Nov 5: Case-based reasoning, Constraints (A3 alpha-beta enhancement due). lecture pdf |
| 7 | Nov 8: Quiz on state-space search operator properties, Interactive state-space search: CoSolve, Logic 1: Propositional resolution. lecture pdf | Nov 10: Logic 2: Predicate resolution and unification. lecture pdf | Nov 12: Review |
| 8 | Nov 15: Midterm exam | Nov 17: Logic 3: PROLOG basics. | Nov 19: Logic 4: Applying PROLOG. |
| 9 | Nov 22: Lab session: meet in MGH 044. Probabilistic Inference with Bayes' Rule. lecture pdf | Nov 24: (A4 early turn-in date) | Nov 26: Thanksgiving holiday |
| 10 | Nov 29: Machine Learning 1: Introduction. Perceptrons. (A4 due, logic in AI) lecture pdf | Dec 1: Machine Learning 2: Backprop + ID3 method lecture pdf | Dec 3: Natural language understanding. lecture pdf |
| 11 | Dec 6: Lab session: meet in MGH 044. Project work session. | Dec 8: Lab session: meet in MGH 044. Project presentations. | Dec 10: The Future of AI. lecture pdf |
| Dec 14 (Tuesday): FINAL EXAMINATION 2:30 PM - 4:20 |