| Date | Topic | Reading | Homework |
| Aug 30 | Intro to cs381k | | Hw0 (Lisp) Optional |
| | Overview of AI | 1 | |
| Sep 06 | Problem Spaces | 2,3.1-3.4 | |
| | Brute-Force Search | 3.5-3.6 | |
| Sep 13 | Heuristic Search | 4.1-4.2 | |
| | Analysis of Heuristic Search | 4.3-4.4 | |
| Sep 20 | Game Playing | 5 | Hw1 (Game Playing) assigned |
| | Constraint Satisfaction, Subgoaling | 3.7, 24.4 | |
| Sep 27 | Means-Ends Analysis, Macros, Abstraction | 11.1-11.4 | |
| | Planning | 11.5-11.8 | |
| Oct 04 | Issues in Knowledge Representation | 6.1-6.3 | Hw1 due |
| | Reasoning and Representation in Logic | 6.4-6.5, 7.1-7.3, 9.1-9.5 | |
| Oct 11 | Resolution Theorem Proving | 9.6-9.7 | Hw2 (Resolution) assigned |
| | Discussion & Review
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| Oct 18 | Midterm Exam
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| Oct 25 | Decision Trees, EBL, Discovery | 18.3-18.4, 21.2, 18.6 | |
| | Neural Networks | 19.1-19.5 | |
| Nov 01 | Reinforcement Learning | 2.3-2.4, 17.1, 20.1-20.7 | Hw2 due |
| | Genetic Algorithms, Neuro-evolution | Paper, 20.8 | Hw3 (Learning) assigned |
| Nov 08 | Semantic Nets and Frames | 10.6 | |
| | Syntactic Analysis of Natural Language | 22.1-22.4 | |
| Nov 14 | BAT 215 5-7:45pm |
| | Prolog and Logic Programming | 10.1-10.4 | |
| | Rule-based and Expert Systems | 10.5 | |
| Nov 15 | Semantic Analysis | 22.7-22.8, 23.6 | |
| | Subsymbolic NLP | Paper | Hw4 (NLP) assigned |
| Nov 22 | No class | | Hw3 due |
| Nov 29 | Nonmonotonic Reasoning | 15.6, 10.8 | |
| | Statistical Reasoning | 14, 15.1-15.3, 15.6 | |
| Dec 06 | Robotics | 25 | Hw4 due |
| | Discussion & Review
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| Dec 15 | Final Exam 7-10pm BEN 212
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