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The following course schedule is tentative and subject to minor revisions of topics. Details and links will be added as the course progresses.
 

Date	Lecture Topic	Ref - R&N	Ass't Due
Wed Sept 6	From hackers to agents - why AI is hard ppt -intro	ch. 1
Fri Sept 8	ppt-agents
Mon Sept 11	Agents in environments	ch. 2
Wed Sept 13	ppt-environmentspace
Fri Sept 15	Problem solving by searching a state space	ch. 3
Mon Sept 18	Search algorithms ppt.search
Wed Sept 20	informedsearch.ppt
Fri Sept 22	Informed search	ch. 4
Mon Sept 25			Project - Stage 1
Wed Sept 27	adversarialsearch.ppt
Fri Sept 29	Adversarial search	ch. 6
Mon Oct 2	improvedsearch
Wed Oct 4	goal-based search
Fri Oct 6	genetic algorithm example	ch. 5
Mon Oct 9	THANKSGIVING - NO CLASS
WedOct 11	Constraint satisfaction		Assignment 1
Fri Oct 13
Mon Oct 16	Propositional logic	ch. 7
Wed Oct 18
Fri Oct 20	Automated porpostional reasoning		Project - stage 2
Mon Oct 23 - Fri Oct 27	STUDY WEEK
Mon Oct 30	examples of reasoning
Wed Nov 1	First order logic	ch. 8
Fri Nov 3	Reasoning by inference in first order logic		Project - stage 3
Mon Nov 6	Wumpus world	ch. 9
Wed Nov 8	proof by resolution
Fri Nov 10	Ontology	ch. 10
Mon Nov 13			Assignment 2
Wed Nov 15	guest lecture: Cameron Ross - ontology
Fri Nov 17		ch. 11
Mon Nov 20	general knowledge		Project - stage 4 tournament
Wed Nov 22	Planning	ch. 12
Fri Nov 24	Acting on plans in a real environment
Mon Nov 27			Project playoffs
Wed Nov 29	Tournament final matches
Fri Dec 1	Distributed AI	handouts	Project - stage 5
Mon Dec 4
Wed Dec 6			Assignment 3
FINAL EXAMINATION

 

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