| Week | Tuesday | Thursday | Readings |
|---|---|---|---|
| August 24, 26 | What is AI? Agents. | Agents and environments. | Chapters 1, 2 |
| August 31, September 2 | Agent types, Problem-Solving Agents Give HW1 | Problem types and formulation, Search: BFS, Uniform-cost search | Chapter 3 |
| September 7, 9 | Uninformed search: DFS, DLS, IDS, Bidirectional search | Greedy search, A* search HW1 due ; Give HW2 | Chapters 3, 4.1 |
| September 14, 16 | A* search, heuristic functions, Hill-climbing | Simulated annealing, Local beam, Genetic algorithms; CSPs | Chapters 4, 5.1 |
| September 21, 23 | CSPs, constraint graph | Backtracking, variable and value ordering, forward checking
Quiz 1 ; HW2 due | Chapters 5.1-5.2 |
| September 28, 30 | CSP: Constraint propagation, Problem structure | Local search for CSP; Games: Minimax algorithm Give HW3 | Chapter 5, 6.1-6.2 |
| October 5, 7 | no class | no class | |
| October 12, 14 | Cutting off search; Alpha-beta pruning; Chance nodes | Alpha-beta with chance nodes HW3 due | Chapter 6.3-6.7 |
| October 19, 21 | Logical agents, logic Quiz 2 | Midterm | Chapter 7.1-7.3 |
| October 26, 28 | Propositional logic Give Project Part 1 | Chapter 7.4-7.5 | |
| November 2, 4 | PP1 is due Give Project Part 2 | ||
| November 9, 11 | PP2 is due Give Project Part 3 | ||
| November 16, 18 | |||
| November 23, 25 | Thanksgiving Holiday | ||
| November 30, December 2 |