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 | |
|  | 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 |  | FURLOUGH DAY- Work on Project | |||
| W 11/25 | FURLOUGH DAY- Work on Project | ||||
| F 11/27 | School
Holiday | ||||
| 13 |  | 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 |  | 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 |