WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
Computer Science Department

CS534 Artificial Intelligence:
Fall 03 SCHEDULE

Version:Wed Sep 17 15:35:03 EDT 2003

Wed 6:00-9:00, room FL 320
Prof. Dave Brown, FL 131, (508) 831-5618, dcb@cs.wpi.edu


Class             Chapt(s)	Due	Material

**Note: see this page for exactly which sections to read. 1 3 Sept 1,2,(26,27) . Intro., Agents Reading: Turing 2 10 Sept 3,4 . Search Reading: tbd 3 17 Sept . Rule-based systems (for Project 1) Reading: Davis, Buchanan & Shortliffe 4 24 Sept 5,6 . Constraints, Games Reading: tbd 5 1 Oct 7,8,9 Proj1 Knowledge Repr., Logic Reading: McCarthy, Concepts of Logical AI. Hayes, in defense of logic. 6 8 Oct all above . !!! Mid-term Exam (1.5 hours) 7 15 Oct 10 . Knowledge Repr., Structured Reading: Minsky, frames. Brachman, semantic net history. 8 22 Oct -- . <Catch up day> (Structured Representations & Ontologies) 9 29 Oct 11,(12) Proj2 Planning Reading: tbd 10 5 Nov 13,14,(15) Pr4P Uncertainty, Belief Nets, Expert Systems Reading: Buchanan et al 11 12 Nov 15.6,22,(23) . Natural Language Understanding Reading: Winograd 12 19 Nov 24,(20.7) Proj3 Vision Reading: Brooks, `Acronym'. -- 26 Nov -- -- < Thanksgiving > 13 3 Dec 18,(19,20,21) . Learning Reading: Quinlan 14 10 Dec all above Proj4 !!! Final Exam (2 hours) -- 17 Dec -- -- < Spare Day > {19th Dec is end of semester}

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