CS 4480, Section 1, Fall 2009   Class Schedule, Lecture Notes
Note: Schedule will change, please check frequently.

WK

Class/Date

Topic

Book Chapter

Events

Reading/Preparation


1

W 9/9
Introduction and Syllabus
1
Slides

F 9/11

Agents
2
Slides on Book's Web Site

2

M 9/14

Rational  Agents
2
Continue Ch2 Slides
Homework 1 Assigned
HW1: 2.5 abc, 2.6

W 9/16

Task Environments
2
Continue Ch2 Slides

F 9/18

Types of Agents 2
Continue Ch2 Slides http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/technology/internet/24emotion.html

3

M 9/21

Search
3
Homework 1 Due 
Project Handout

W 9/23

FURLOUGH DAY - Research Project Topic



F 9/25

Problem-solving Agents
3

Current issue of Computational Linguistics
Netflix Prize: IEEE Spectrum, LA Times

4

M 9/28

Quiz 1
1, 2

Review

W 9/30

Search
3


F 10/2

Work on Project Proposal



5

M 10/5

Work on Project Proposal


W 10/7

Project Discussion



F 10/9

Lisp

Project Proposal Due
Submit via homework submission system

6

M 10/12

Search
3


W 10/14

Search and AIMA_Lisp
3
Homework 2 Assigned
3.7 a, c; 3.8; 3.9 - get book code working
solve cannibals with three different search algorithms

F 10/16

Informed Search
4.1, 4.2


7

M 10/19

Informed Search 4.3, 4.4


W 10/21

Adversarial Search
6

Missionaries and Cannibals

F 10/23

Adversarial Search
Quiz Review

HW 2 Due
Project Status Report Due

8

M 10/26

FURLOUGH DAY - Work on Project 


W 10/28

Go over quiz 1 and HW2



F 10/30

Gallo Meeting and Project



9

M 11/2

Quiz 2
3, 4

Review

W 11/4

Logical Agents
7.1, 7.2


F 11/6

Logic
7.3, 7.4


10

M 11/9

Reasoning Patterns
7.5
HW 3 Assigned
HW 3: 7.4, 7.8, 7.9; check your answers to 7.8 and 7.9 using book's lisp code

W 11/11

School Holiday



F 11/13

Reasoning Patterns
7.5
Project Status Report Due
40 Years of Multics

11

M 11/16

First Order Logic
8

Slides on Blackboard under "Course Documents"

W 11/18

First Order Logic 8


F 11/20

First Order Logic 8 and 9
HW 3 Due
http://www.pathwaystoscience.org/

12

M 11/23

FURLOUGH DAY- Work on Project 


W 11/25

FURLOUGH DAY- Work on Project 


F 11/27

School Holiday



13

M 11/30

Go Over Quiz and Homework
3,4,7


W 12/2

How to demo
Guidelines and Scoring


How to demo software
Demo Guidelines

F 12/4

Demos

Homework/Project Amnesty Ends
Start Project Presentations
Peer Response
Demo Scoring Guide

14

M 12/7

Demos


W 12/9

Demos


F 12/11

Demos
Quiz2 Rewrites Due


Friday 12/18

FINAL EXAM
Time: 8:30 am to 10:30 am 

Project Write-up Due
Project Scoring Guide