| Date | Topics | Readings |
| Aug 28 | Introduction. What is AI? The agent perspective. Course overview | AIMA Chapter 1. Notes |
| Aug 30 | Topic overview, contd. Agents, environments, goals, etc. | AIMA Chapter 2. Same notes as last time. | Sep 4 | Types of environments, agents, and state representations. Problem-solving and search. | AIMA Chapter 2 and Sections 3.1-3.2. |
| Sep 6 | Search | Sections 3.3-3.4 |
| Sep 11 | A* Search and Heuristics | Sections 3.5-3.6 |
| Sep 13 | Informed search, contd. Intro to local search. | Sections 3.5-3.7, 4.1 |
| Sep 18 | Local search, contd. | Sections 4.1-4.2 |
| Sep 20 | Game-Tree Search | Chapter 5. | Sep 25 | Stochastic games. Intro to CSPs | Sections 5.5, 6.1. |
| Sep 27 | CSPs, contd. | Sections 6.2-6.3. | Oct 2 | CSPs, contd. | Sections 6.3-6.4. |
| Oct 4 | CSPs and Intro to Logic | Sections 6.5, 6.6, 7.1-7.3 |
| Oct 9 | Propositional Logic | Section 7.4 |
| Oct 11 | Propositional Logic: Resolution, Horn Clauses | Section 7.5 |
| Oct 16 | DPLL and WalkSAT. The Frame Problem. | Sections 7.6-7.7 |
| Oct 18 | First-Order Logic | Chapter 8 |
| Oct 23 | Midterm exam | |
| Oct 25 | Midterm discussion. Inference in FOL. | Sections 9.1-9.2. |
| Oct 30 | Resolution in FOL. | Section 9.5. |
| Nov 1 | Quantifying uncertainty. | Chapter 13. |
| Nov 6 | No class. | |
| Nov 8 | Making simple decisions. | Sections 13.6, 16.1-2. |
| Nov 13 | Simple decision-making, contd. + MDPs | Sections 16.3, 16.6, 17.1 |
| Nov 15 | The Bellman equation, value iteration, policy iteration. | Sections 17.2, 17.3. |
| Nov 27 | Game theory and mechanism design | Sections 17.5, 17.6. |
| Nov 29 | Learning: Intro; Hypothesis spaces | Sections 18.1-18.2 |
| Dec 4 | Learning: Decision trees, ID3, cross-validation | Sections 18.3-18.4. Notes |
| Dec 6 | Learning: linear models for regression and classification | Section 18.6. Notes |
| Dec 11 | Review |