Schedule for CSCI 5582 - Artificial Intelligence

Fall 1997

Mike Eisenberg and Gerhard Fischer

TA: Ann Eisenberg

• August 25: Gerhard
  The History of AI and AI in the 1990's
  Questionnaire
• August 27: Gerhard
  Foundations of AI
  (Chapter 1 in Winston)
  

• Sept 1: Labor Day, no class
• Sept 3: Mike
  Introduction to functional programming through SchemePaint
• Sept. 8: Mike
  SchemePaint II
• Sept. 10: Mike
  SchemePaint III
  Problem Set 1 handed out
• Sept 15: Mike
  SchemePaint IV
  
• Sept 17: Gerhard
  Semantic Nets and Description Matching
  (Chapter 2 in Winston)
  
• Sept. 22: Gerhard
  Generate and Test
  (Chapter 3 in Winston)
  Problem Set 1 due
• Sept. 24: Gerhard
  Nets and Basic Search
  (Chapter 4 in Winston)
• Sept. 29: Gerhard
  Nets and Optimal Search
  (Chapter 5 in Winston)

• Oct. 1: Gerhard
  Trees and Adversarial Search
  (Chapter 6 in Winston)
  Problem Set 2 handed out
• Oct. 6: Gerhard
  Rules and Rule Chaining
  (Chapter 7 in Winston)
  
• Oct. 8: Gerhard
  Rules, Substrates, and Cognitive Modelling
  (Chapter 8 in Winston)
• Oct. 13: Gerhard
  Frames and Inheritance
  (Chapter 9 in Winston)
• Oct. 15: Gerhard
  Frames and Common Sense
  (Chapter 10 in Winston)
• Oct. 20: Gerhard
  AI and Design
  Comments on Bobrow paper due
• Oct. 22: Mike
  Symbolic Constraint Propagation
  (Chapter 12 in Winston)
  Problem Set 2: one page documentation of a running program due
• Oct. 27: Mike
  Logic and Resolution Proof
  (Chapter 13 in Winston)
  Discussion of projects
  
• Oct. 29: Mike
  Truth Maintenance; Planning
  Problem Set 2 due

• Nov. 3: Mike
  Reasoning under uncertainty
  (Chapter 11 in Winston)
  Project proposal due
• Nov. 5: Mike and Gerhard
  Special Class: Discussion on Searle's and Turing's papers Comments on Searle and Turing Papers due
  
• Nov. 10: Mike
  Machine Learning I
  (Chapters 16-17 in Winston)
  
• Nov. 12: Mike
  Machine Learning II
  (Chapters 18 and 21 in Winston)
  
• Nov. 17: Mike
  Intro. to Neural Nets
  (Chapter 22 in Winston)
  
• Nov. 19: Mike, Gerhard, Tim Koschmann
  AI and Education
• Nov. 24: Gerhard
  AI and Creativity
  Project progress report due
• Nov. 26: Mike
  Machine Vision and Mental Imagery
  (Chapters 26-27 in Winston)
  Comments on Gardner reading due

• Dec. 1: Mike
  Game Theory: Modelling of Reasoning beyond the Individual
  Comments on Axelrod reading due
• Dec. 3: Mike
  Artificial Life
  Comments on Braitenburg reading due
• Dec. 8: Gerhard and guest speakers
  AI and the World Wide Web
  FINAL PROJECTS DUE
• Dec. 10
  Class Project Presentations I
• Final Exam Date/Time
  Class Project Presentations II