| Class | Date | Lecture/Discussion Topic | Reading Assignment Due | Homework/Assignments | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | W 9/7 | Will machines surpass human intelligence? | Kurzweil's Predictions | |||
| 2 | F 9/9 | AI Roots, Scope & Applications | Luger, Ch 1 | |||
| 3 | W 9/14 | AI Approaches: Symbolic AI | Luger, pp. 35-44 | |||
| 4 | F 9/16 | Approaches: Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms | Luger, Ch 11.0-11.2, 12.0-12.1 | |||
| 5 | W 9/21 | Guest: Matt Bridges, '02 | ||||
| 6 | F 9/23 | Symbolic Logic Review, The Unification Algorithm | Luger, Ch 2.0-2.3 | Hmk: Logic Problems | ||
| 7 | W 9/28 | PROLOG Basics | Luger, Chapter 15.0-15.1 | Hmk: Family Database | ||
| 8 | F 9/30 | PROLOG ADTs | Luger, Chapter 15.2 | |||
| 9 | W 10/5 | State Space Search | Luger, Ch 3.0-3.3 | Hmk: State Space Assignment | ||
| 10 | F 10/7 | PROLOG Production System | Luger, Chapter 15.3 | Hmk: Family Database, #3 | ||
| 11 | W 10/12 | Catch-up/Exam Review | ||||
| 12 | F 10/14 | Midterm Exam | Midterm Exam, Ch 1-3,11.0-11.1, 12.0-12.1, 15.0-15.2 | |||
| 13 | W 10/19 | Heuristic Search | Luger, Ch 4.0 - 4.2 | Hmk: Heuristics Exercises Solutions |
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| 14 | F 10/21 | Minimax, Alpha-Beta Pruning | Luger Ch 4.3 - 4.4 | |||
| 15 | W 10/26 | PROLOG: Knight's Tour | Luger Ch 15.1.4 | Hmk: Simplified Knight's Tour | ||
| 16 | F 10/28 | Best First Search in PROLOG; A* Algorithm | Luger Ch 15.4, 4.2 | |||
| 17 | W 11/2 | Machine Learning (Classical) | Luger, Ch 10.0-10.2 | |||
| 18 | F 11/4 | Machine Learning: ID3 | Luger, Ch 10.3-10.4 | Machine Learning Problems | ||
| 19 | W 11/9 | Machine Learning (Neural Networks) | Luger, Ch 11.1-11.3 | |||
| 20 | F 11/11 | Genetic Algorithms | Luger, 12.0 - 12.2 | Hmk: Final Project | ||
| 21 | W 11/16 | Case Study: Sudoku | ||||
| 22 | F 11/18 | Case Study: Sudoku | ||||
| Thanksgiving Break -- 11/23 - 11/25 | ||||||
| 23 | W 11/30 | Case Study: Sudoku | ||||
| 24 | F 12/2 | Case Study: Sudoku | ||||
| 25 | W 12/7 | |||||
| 26 | F 12/9 | |||||
| 27 | M 12/16 | Final Examination | 12:00 noon | |||