Week

Date

Course Topics

Readings

Activity

1

8/24

Introduction, Overview, Administration;
Intelligent Agents

AIMA: 1
AIMA: 2

2

8/31

Problem Solving / Search 1
Problem Solving / Search 2

AIMA: 3

3

9/7

Uninformed Search
Informed Search 1

AIMA: 3

HW1 handed out (9/5)

4

9/14

Informed Search 2
Game Playing 1

5

9/21

Game Playing 2
Agents that reason logically 1

AIMA: 5
AIMA: 7

HW1 due (9/19)

HW2 handed out (9/19)

6

9/28

Agents that reason logically 2
First Order Logic 1

AIMA: 7
AIMA: 8

7

10/5

First Order Logic 2
Inference in First Order Logic 1

AIMA: 8
AIMA: 9

HW2 due (10/3)

HW3 handed out (10/3)

8

10/12

MIDTERM EXAM (in class – 1 hour)

Inference in First Order Logic 2

AIMA: 9

9

10/19

Inference in First Order Logic 3
Logic Reasoning System (Prolog)

AIMA: 9
AIMA: 9

10

10/26

Planning 1
Planning 2

AIMA: 10
AIMA: 10,11

HW3 due (10/24)

HW4 handed out (10/24)

11

11/2

Knowledge Representation 1
Knowledge Representation 2

AIMA: 12
AIMA: 12

12

11/9

Uncertainty 1
Uncertainty 2

AIMA: 13
AIMA: 14,15

HW4 due (11/7)

HW5 handed out (11/7)

13

11/16

Learning 1
Learning 2

AIMA: 18
AIMA: 19

14

11/23

Natural Language Understanding; Robotics; Expert Systems & other topics as time allows

AIMA: 22, 23, 25, 27

15

11/30

Course material review; future outlook

Final exam review

HW5 due December 1     No late submissions