| Week # | Monday | Wednesday | Friday |
| 1 | Sept 24: Introduction. What is intelligence? Turing test. lecture pdf | Sept 26 A Python Primer. lecture pdf | Sept 28: (meet in MGH 030) Python hands-on. Implementing Conversational Agents. lecture pdf |
| 2 | Oct 1: Aims and Pitfalls of AI 1 | Oct 3: Aims and Pitfalls of AI 2 | Oct 5: Assignment 1 due. Knowledge Representation with Inheritance Hierarchies. lecture pdf |
| 3 | Oct 8: State-Space Search 1. Missionaries and Cannibals. States, state-spaces, and operators. Blind search. lecture pdf | Oct 10: State-Space Search 2: Graph search, Uniform Cost search, A*, admissible heuristics. lecture pdf | Oct 12: (meet in MGH 030) Assignment 2 due. Lab activity on search algorithms |
| 4 | Oct 15: Game Playing 1: Minimaxing, alpha-beta pruning. lecture pdf Research miniprojects due. | Oct 17: Game Playing 2: Checkers, Chess, Zobrist hashing. lecture pdf | Oct 19: Assignment 3 due. State-Space Search 3: Problem posing issues. lecture pdf |
| 5 | Oct 22: Selected student presentations on research miniprojects. | Oct 24: Problem formulation exercises | Oct 26: (meet in MGH 030) Quiz. Search Strategies: Hill climbing, simulated annealing, case-based reasoning. lecture pdf |
| 6 | Oct 29: Assignment 4 due.Logic 1: Genetic Search. Propositional calculus and resolution. lecture pdf | Oct 31: Propositional Logic (continued). | Nov 2: Logic 2: Predicate calculus and unification. lecture pdf |
| 7 | Nov 5: Assignment 5 due.Predicate calculus (continued). | Nov 7: Probabilistic Inference with Bayes' Rule. lecture pdf | Nov 9: (meet in MGH 030) Joint Distribution, conditional probability, marginals. lecture pdf |
| 8 | Nov 12: Veterans Day Holiday (No class) | Nov 14: (meet in MGH 044) Midterm exam! | Nov 16: Machine Learning 1: Introduction. Perceptrons. lecture pdf |
| 9 | Nov 19: Assignment 6 due. Machine Learning 2: Backprop + ID3 method. lecture pdf | Nov 21: Natural Language Understanding 1. lecture pdf | Nov 23: Thanksgiving holiday |
| 10 | Nov 26: Natural Language Understanding 2. | Nov 28: Image Understanding 1. lecture pdf | Nov 30: (meet in MGH 030) Image Understanding 2. |
| 11 | Dec 3: (meet in MGH 030) Preliminary Projects Code due at 2:00 PM. Project presentations. | Dec 5: (meet in MGH 044) Project presentations. | Dec 7: (meet in MGH 030) The Future of AI. Project reports and final code due Dec. 12 at 11:45 PM. lecture pdf |
| Dec 11 (Tuesday): FINAL EXAMINATION 2:30 PM - 4:20 | |||