WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
Computer Science Department

CS4341 - Artificial Intelligence
A06 - SCHEDULE

Version: Sun Oct 1 15:36:15 EDT 2006

Class #	Date	Chapt(s)	Due	Material
1	Thu 24 Aug	1	.	Introduction: Turing test, etc.
2	Fri 25 Aug	2	.	Basic ideas: representation, etc.

3	Mon 28 Aug	3	.	G&T, MEA
4	Tue 29 Aug	4	.	Basic Search
5	Thu 31 Aug	5	.	Heuristic Search
6	Fri 1 Sept	6	.	Adversarial Search

--	Mon 4 Sep	--	.	Labor Day Holiday (No Classes)
7	Tue 5 Sep	7	.	Rule-based systems
8	Thu 7 Sep	8	.	Using Rules
9	Fri 8 Sep	9	Proj 1	Frames & Demons

10	Mon 11 Sep	10	.	Using Frames [DCB at Design Theory conf] [Prof Ruiz to lecture]
11	Tue 12 Sep	11	.	Numerical Constraints [DCB at Design Theory conf] [Prof Ruiz to lecture]
12	Thu 14 Sep	12	.	Symbolic Constraints
13	Fri 15 Sep	13	Proj 2	Logic & Resolution

14	Mon 18 Sep	14	.	Backtracking & TMS
15	Tue 19 Sep	1-14	**	Exam 1 -- Sample Qs
16	Thu 21 Sep	15	.	Planning
17	Fri 22 Sep	15	.	More Planning

18	Mon 25 Sep	16	.	Learning from differences
19	Tue 26 Sep	19	.	Learning by recording cases
20	Thu 28 Sep	20	.	Learning using multiple models
21	Fri 29 Sep	21	.	Learning by building trees

22	Mon 2 Oct	25	.	Learning by Simulating Evolution
23	Tue 3 Oct	26	.	Vision: recognizing objects
24	Thu 5 Oct	27	.	Vision: describing objects
25	Fri 6 Oct	28	Proj 3	Natural Language constraints {TA evaluation}

26	Mon 9 Oct	29	.	Natural Language interaction {Prof evaluation}
27	Tue 10 Oct	15-29	**	Exam 2 -- Sample Qs
28	Thu 12 Oct	1-29	.	An Intro to WPI CS AI Research

[Course content notes are based on Prof. Winston's outline of the book]