CSCI 379 Section 01 Fall 2019 tentative schedule

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science: Building Artificial Minds

Make sure you check this periodically, I expect that this schedule will be modified in some ways throughout the semester

I would highly suggest not waiting until the last minute for the readings. Some readings can be dense and they are the type that you benefit from thinking about a bit. You will also be expected to discuss these readings and any lack of discussion in group/class settings will be reflected within your grade.
Note that some readings are due the week after, that is, they are assigned to be discussed on the Tuesday of the following week

Week	Topic	Readings (date by which expected to have read)
26-Aug to 30-Aug	Introduction to course	Mind Design II Chapter 1 (28-Aug), Mind Design II Chapter 2 (30-Aug)
02-Sep to 06-Sep	Intelligence and Computers	Mind Design II Chapter 7 & Harnad Commentary (02-Sep), Sciences of the Artificial Chapter 1 (04-Sep), Newell 1973 (06-Sep)
09-Sep to 13-Sep	Rule-Based Expert Systems, Information Processing, & the Mind	Newell 1992 (09-Sep), Stewart 2006 (11-Sep), Squire 2004 (13-Sep)
16-Sep to 20-Sep	Cognitive Architectures & Neural Nets week 1	Langley, Laird, Rogers 2008 (16-Sep), Mind Design II Chapter 5 (18-Sep), Mind Design Chapter 8 (20-Sep) RBES Assignment due 18-Sep @ 11:55pm
23-Sep to 27-Sep	Neural Nets week 2	NN Assignment part 1 due 23-Sep @ 11:55pm, NN Assignment Phase 1 due 27-Sep @ 11:55pm
30-Sep to 04-Oct	Neural Nets week 3, Midterm	Midterm Exam 30-Sep, Midterm Project Presented 02-Oct, NN Assignment Phase 2 due 06-Oct @ 11:55pm
07-Oct to 11-Oct	Prof. Dancy is out at a Conference, Project Work Week
14-Oct to 18-Oct	FALL BREAK (14-Oct), Trees & Searching, week 1	Midterm Project Presentation Phase 1 (16-Oct), Sciences of the Artificial Chapter 5 (18-Oct)
21-Oct to 25-Oct	Trees & Searching, week 2	Mind Design II Chapter 4 (21-Oct), Heuristic tree assignment #1 due (25-Oct)
28-Oct to 01-Nov	AI, People, and Society (& Trees Makeup)	Winner, 1980 (28-Oct) AI & The Police State (28-Oct), Some more trees makeup (30-Oct), Mateescu & Elish, 2019 (AI in Context) (01-Nov)
04-Nov to 08-Nov	Reinforcement Learning	Midterm Project Final Presentations 04-Nov & 06-Nov, Final Project Presented & Discussed on 08-Nov, Augment with links in this topic on Google Classroom (tentative)
11-Nov to 15-Nov	Reinforcement Learning	Augment with links in this topic on Google Classroom (tentative)
18-Nov to 22-Nov	Cognitive Systems	Zach Brill from Discovery Machine talking on 18-Nov, Final Project Phase 2 Presentations 20-Nov, Laird et al., 2017 (18-Nov), Anderson 2008 (22-Nov), Why robot brains need symbols(22-Nov), Langley 2012 (22-Nov)
25-Nov to 29-Nov	THANKSGIVING BREAK
02-Dec to 06-Dec	Project Presentation 04-Dec & 06-Dec	Final Project Presentations All Week
09-Dec to 10-Dec	Project Presentation Day 3	We Outchea!, Course debriefing and review
12-Dec to 19-Dec	Final Exam Period	Started from the Bottom, now we here! (Have a great winter break!)