| Week | Dates | Topics | Readings |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aug. 30, Sept. 1 | Introduction to AI and Python | AII chapters 1-2, handout (Luger), SR #1 (Turing) |
| 2 | Sept. 6, 8 | Knowledge Representation and Search | AII sections 3.1-4.11, SR #2 (Russell and Norvig) |
| 3 | Sept. 13, 15 | Heuristic Search Methods | Last day to add: Monday, Sept. 12 AII sections 4.12-4.17, SR #3 (Russell and Norvig) |
| 4 | Sept. 20, 22 | Game Playing | AII chapter 6, SR #4 (Russell and Norvig) |
| 5 | Sept. 27, 29 | Reinforcement Learning | AII chapter 10, SR #12 (Mitchell) |
| 6 | Oct. 4, 6 | Decision Trees | AII section 10.9 |
| 7 | Oct. 11, 13 | Philosophical Issues | SR #5 (Newell and Simon), #6 (Searle), #7 (French) |
| MIDTERM EXAM: Thursday, Oct. 13 in class | |||
| 8 | FALL BREAK | ||
| Oct. 20 | Neural Networks | AII chapter 11 Last day to P/NC or drop: Thursday, Oct. 20 |
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| 9 | Oct. 25, 27 | Neural Networks | SR #10 (Pollack) |
| 10 | Nov. 1, 3 | Distributed Representations | SR #8 (Harnad), SR #11 (Elman) |
| 11 | Nov. 8, 10 | Robotics | SR #13 (Braitenberg), SR #14 (Pfeifer and Scheier) |
| 12 | Nov. 15, 17 | Robotics | SR #15 (Brooks), SR #16 (Pfeifer and Scheier) |
| 13 | Nov. 22 | Genetic Algorithms | AII sections 13.7-13.10, Chapter 14 Handout: "Survival of the Fittest Bits" |
| THANKSGIVING BREAK | |||
| 14 | Nov. 29, Dec. 1 | Evolving Neural Networks | SR #17 (Nolfi) |
| 15 | Dec. 6 | Copycat Architecture | Handout: "The Copycat Model" Handout: "A Constructivist Model of Robot Perception and Performance" |
| FINAL PROJECT: Due Thursday, Dec. 15, 12:00pm | |||