CSc 244
Schedule

Subject to Sudden Change

Dates Tuesday Thursday Readings
Jan 6, 8 fields of AI
what is intelligence?
environments
agents, rationality
Chapter 1
Jan 13, 15 task environment properties task environment properties
types of agents
Chapter 2
Jan 20, 22 uninformed search uninformed search,
repeated states
Chapter 3
Jan 27, 29 informed search:
greedy and A* searches
optimal efficiency of A*,
heuristics
Sections 4.1, 4.2
Feb 3, 5 hill climbing
Midterm Review
MIDTERM Sections 4.2, 4.3
Feb 10, 12 simulated annealing,
genetic algorithms
minimax,
alpha-beta pruning
Sections 6.1-6.3
Feb 17, 19 adversarial search techniques,
logical agents
entailment,
model checking
Sections 6.4-6.8
Feb 24, 26 propositional logic,
CNF knowledge bases,
proofs
resolution,
forward and backward chaining,
resolution strategies
Chapter 7
Mar 2, 4 first-order logic
interpretations
FOL translation
unification
finding MGUs
Chapter 8 (except 8.4)
Sections 9.1-9.2
Mar 9, 11 FOL to CNF translation
FOL resolution
review for final
Reverse Checkers
Competition

in Olin 110
Chapter 9:
Sections 9.3-9.5
Exam Week Final Exam: Tues, March 16, 5-7pm in Humanities 019

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