CSCE 476/876, Spring 2004: Class schedule

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Homework:

Homework

Assigned data

Due date

Homework 1 : Learning Lisp with the Adaptive Remote Agent .

Wednesday, Jan 21, 2004

Wednesday, Jan 28, 2004

Homework 2

Wed Jan 28, 2004

Wed Feb 4, 2004

Homework 3

Wednesday, February 4, 2004

Friday, February 20, 2004

Homework 4

Monday, Feb 23, 2004

Monday, Mar 1, 2004

Homework 5

Monday, March 8, 2004

Delayed to Monday March 29, 2004

Homework 6

Wed, March 21

Wed, April 7

Homework 7

Wed, April 14, 2004

Wed, April 21, 2004

Handouts:

  1. Syllabus and grading strategy
  2. Introduction and rules: Instructor notes #1
  3. What is AI? by John McCarthy
  4. Quick historical notes: Instructor notes #2
  5. A Little Bit of Lisp: Instructor notes #3
  6. Intelligent Agents: Instructor notes #4
  7. Solving Problems by Searching (I) : Instructor notes #5
  8. Solving Problems by Searching (II): Instructor notes #6
  9. Solving Heuristic Search: Instructor notes #7
  10. Constraint Satisfaction Problems: Instructor notes #8
  11. Adverserial Search: Instructor notes #9
  12. Logical Agents: Instructor notes #10
  13. Logical Agents: Instructor notes #11
  14. First Order Logic: Instructor notes #12
  15. Inference in First-Order Logic: Instructor notes #13

Glossaries:

  1. Glossary 1
  2. Glossary 2
  3. Glossary 3
  4. Glossary 4
  5. Glossary 5
  6. Glossary 6
  7. Glossary 7
  8. Glossary 8
  9. Glossary 9
  10. Glossary 10
  11. Glossary 11

Exercises treated during Recitation:

  1. AI and Lisp exercices #1: ps, pdf.
  2. AI and Lisp exercices #2: ps, pdf.

Dates 
Material
Homework & Tests
Announcements and notifications

Mon, Jan 12

Topic: Rules of the game
Required reading:
Recommended reading: What is AI by John McCarthy

  

  

Wed, Jan 14

Topic Historical notes
Required reading:AIMA: Chapter 1

  

  • Glossary 1 assigned
  • Fri, Jan 16
    Pretest: 
  • In-class: closed books, handwritten crib sheet allowed, must be turnied in with test
  • Take-home: collaboration, discussion strictly forbidden . To be returned on Wednesday Jan 21
  • Make sure to check out whether or not you took CSCE310 (or equivalent) and provide your grade. 
  • Mon, Jan 19
    Martin Luther King Day

    Wed, Jan 21

    Topic: A Gentle Introduction to Common Lisp
    Required reading:

  • LWH: Chapter 1, 2, 3, and 4. 
  • Beating the Averages (Paul Graham)
  • Homework 1 assigned

  • Pretest: Take-home pretest is due.
  • Announcing RA's office hours:
    • Tue, 10:00--11:00 a.m. Anagh Lal. Room 3. alal AT cse.unl.edu
    • Thu, 10:00--11:00 a.m. Joel Gompert. Room 3. jgompert AT cse.unl.edu
    • Fri, 10:00--11:00 a.m. Venkata Praveen Guddeti. Room 3. vguddeti AT cse.unl.edu
  • Get your free (time-limited) version of ACL. 
  • Details on using Lisp available from web pages of Yaling Zheng and Eric Moss.
  • Fri, Jan 23

    Topic: Same as above
    Required reading: Same as above

  • Glossary 1 due
  •   

    Mon, Jan 26

    Class cancelled for inclement weather

    Wed, Jan 28

    Topic: Pretest, quiz, questions of Lisp
    Required reading: AIMA Chapter 2. LWH Chapters 5, 6, 7, and 15

  • Homework1 due.
  • Homework2 assigned.
  • Glossary 2 assigned
  • Quiz 1
  • Fri, Jan 30

    Topic: Intelligent Agents
    Required reading: Same as above

      

      

    Mon, Feb 2

    Class cancelled for inclement weather

    Wed, Feb 4

    Topic: Same as above
    Required reading:

      

  • Homework2 due.
  • Homework3 assigned.
  •   

  • Quiz 2.
  • Fri, Feb 6

    Topic:Solving Problems by Searching
    Required reading: AIMA: Chapter 3, Sections 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3
    Recommended reading: LWH: Chapter 13

  • Glossary 3 assigned
  •   

    Mon, Feb 9

    Topic: same as above (problem formulation, types of agents)
    Required reading: same as above
    Recommended reading: same as above

      

      

    Wed, Feb 11

    Topic: same as above (search)
    Required reading: same as above

  • Glossary 3 due
  • Glossary 4 assigned
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    Fri, Feb 13

    Topic: Uninformed search strategies
    Required reading: AIMA: Sections 3.4, 3.5, 3.6 and 3.7. LWH: Chapters 8 and 13

      

  • Quiz 3
  • Mon, Feb 16

    Topic: same as above
    Required reading: same as above

      

      

    Wed, Feb 18

    Topic: same as above
    Required reading: same as above

      

      

    Fri, Feb 20

    Topic: Informed search Strategies
    Required reading: AIMA, Chapter 4, Section 4.1
    Recommended reading:

      

  • Homework3 due.
  • Glossary 4 due.
  • Glossary 5 assigned
  •   

    Mon, Feb 23

    Topic: same as previous
    Required reading:
    Recommended reading:

      

  • Homework 4 assigned
  • Glossary 5 due.
  • Glossary 6 assigned.
  •   

  • Quiz 4
  • Wed, Feb 25

    Topic: same as previous
    Required reading: AIMA, Chapter 4, Section 4.2
    Recommended reading: Chapter 4 of Judea Pearl's book (distributed in class)

      

      

    Fri, Feb 27

    Topic: same as previous
    Required reading: AIMA, Chapter 4, Section 4.2
    Recommended reading:

      

      

    Mon, Mar 1

    Topic: same as previous
    Required reading: AIMA, Chapter 4, Section 4.3
    Recommended reading:

      

  • Glossary 6 due.
  • Homework 4 due.
  •   

    Wed, Mar 3

    Topic: same as previous
    Required reading: AIMA, Chapter 4, Section 4.3
    Recommended reading:

      

  • Glossary 6 due.
  • Homework 4 due.
  •   

    Midterm rescheduled to Monday Mar 8, 2004.
    Class has agreed to change.
    If you have any problem with this decision, please contact the instructor immediately.

    Fri, Mar 5

     Review
    Mon, Mar 8
    MidTerm
  • Instructor out of town
  • Homework 5 assigned
  • Wed, Mar 10

    Topic: Correction of Midterm (and Homework)

      

      

    Instructor out of town, will be replaced by a graduate student. Attendance will be taken.

    Fri, Mar 12

    Topic: CSP
    Required reading: AIMA: Chapter 5
    Recommended reading:

  • Bartak online guide,
  • Kumar's paper,
  • Bartak's paper
  • Section 5.4 of AIMA (which will not be addressed in class

  •   

  • Glossary 7 assigned
  •   

    Mon, Mar 15
    Spring vacation
    Wed, Mar 17
    Fri, Mar 19

    Mon, Mar 22

    Topic: Same as above
    Required reading: Same as above
    Recommended reading: Same as above

      

      

    Wed, Mar 24

    Topic: Consistency Techniques
    Required reading: Same as above
    Recommended reading: Same as above

      

      

    Fri, Mar 26

    Topic: Search and improvment to search
    Required reading: Same as above
    Recommended reading: Same as above

      

  • Deadline for Homework 5 extended to Monday March 29
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  • Quiz 5
  • Mon, Mar 29

    Topic: same as previous
    Required reading:
    Recommended reading:

      

  • Glossary 7 due
  • Homework 5 due
  •   

    Wed, Mar 31

    Topic: same as previous
    Required reading:
    Recommended reading:

      

  • Glossary 8 assigned
  • Homework 6 assigned
  •   

    Fri, April 2

    Topic: Adverserial search
    Required reading: Sections 6.1, 6.2, and 6.3
    Recommended reading:

      

      

  • Quiz 6
  • Mon, April 5

    Topic: same as previous
    Required reading:
    Recommended reading:

      

      

    Wed, April 7

    Topic: same as previous
    Required reading:
    Recommended reading:

  • Homework 6 due
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    Fri, April 9

    Topic: Logical Agents
    Required reading: Sections 7.1, 7.2, and 7.3
    Recommended reading:

      

  • Glossary 9 assigned
  •   

    Mon, April 12

    Topic: Logical Agents
    Required reading: Sections 7.4, and 7.5
    Recommended reading:

      

  • Glossary 9 due
  •   

    Wed, April 14

    Topic: same as above
    Required reading:
    Recommended reading:

      

  • Glossary 10 assigned
  • Homework 7 assigned
  •   

    Fri, April 16

    Topic: same as above
    Required reading:
    Recommended reading:

      

      

    Mon, April 19

    Topic: same as above
    Required reading:
    Recommended reading:

      

  • Glossary 10 due
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    Wed, April 21

    Topic: First Order Logic
    Required reading: Chapter 8, Section 8.1, 8.2, and 8.3
    Recommended reading: Entire chapter

      

  • Homework 7 due
  • Glossary 11 assigned
  •   

    Fri, April 23

    Topic: same as above
    Required reading:
    Recommended reading:

      

      

    Mon, April 26

    Topic: Inference in FOL
    Required reading: Chapter 9
    Recommended reading:

      

      

  • Glossary 11 due
  • Wed, April 28

    Topic: same as above
    Required reading:
    Recommended reading:

      

      

    Wed, April 26
    Review from 5:30 to 6:30 pm in Ferg 111
    Fri, April 30
    Class cancelled
  • TA will hold office hours in her office instead of
  • Final glossaries must be give to TA
  • Wed, May 5
    Final Examination

    Berthe Y. Choueiry

     

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