| Date | Scheduled Topics | Actual Topics |
| 01/21 | Introduction |
Intro, Tic-tac-toe vs. Chess |
| 01/26 | Blondie24 (1-75) |
FF NNs, mountain search, randomness, evolution |
| 01/28 | Blondie24 (76-150) |
tournaments, evaluation, sigmoid, McCulloch/Pitts |
| 02/02 | Blondie24 (151-225) |
Scanned first half of Blondie24 |
| 02/04 | Blondie24 (226-303) |
Scanned second half of Blondie24 |
| 02/09 | Problem Representation |
Board Representation, Searching, Caching, Cycles |
| 02/11 | (Groups Due) |
8 puzzle, Problem Formulation |
| 02/16 | Tournament Rules, DFS, BFS, IDS |
Tournament Rules, Presentation tips |
| 02/18 | Minimax & Alpha Beta Pruning |
Minimax Searching |
| 02/23 | Review HW#1 + Previous Results
(HW#1 Due) |
Current & Past Timing Results |
| 02/25 | Proposal Presentations
Mid-term available |
Proposal Presentations |
| 03/02 | Proposal Feedback | 2 Presentations & Feedback |
| 03/04 | No Class (take-home mid-term due) | No Class |
| 03/09 | Spring Break | Spring Break |
| 03/11 | Spring Break | Spring Break |
| 03/16 | Mid-term Review | No Class |
| 03/18 | Project Progress Report 1
Game playing SW should be done | No Class |
| 03/23 | | Mid-term Review |
| 03/25 | | Progress Report 1 |
| 03/30 | | Alpha-Beta Pruning |
| 04/01 | Einstein Quiz |
Einsten Quiz |
| 04/06 | | No Class |
| 04/08 | CHANGED
Project Progress Report 2
Should be ready to train |
Progress Reports |
| 04/13 | Pentominoes Solver | Pentominoes & Searching |
| 04/15 | No Lecture
Tournament Test | Tournament Testing |
| 04/20 | Logic Programming &
Prolog Intro | Logic Programming |
| 04/22 | Tournament Dry-run | Tournament Testing |
| 04/27 | Expert Systems | Expert Systems |
| 04/29 | Tournament SW Testing | |
| 05/04 | Tournament Round-Robin Games
No play, no points |
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| 05/06 | Double Elimination Checkers Tournament
No play, no points |
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| 05/11 | Final Presentations 1:00-3:00pm
Final Report Due |
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