Old announcements

• [10/1] Assignment 4 Problem 1 web tester is up.

• [9/30] Quiz 3 solutions are online: page 1 and page 2

• [9/28] Assignment 4 support code for Problems 1 and 2 is out.

• [9/23] Topics for Quiz 3:
  • Mechanics of Greedy Search and A* search (OPEN/CLOSED list formulation of the latter)
  • Properties of the A* algorithm
  • Heuristics
  • Constrain satisfaction search: constructive methods (blind and heuristic) and repair methods (of which we only looked at a heuristic method)

• [9/14] Preliminary versions of the Assignment 3 support code are available from the Assignment 3 Information page.

• [9/14] Topics for Quiz 2:
  • Any of the topics from Quiz 1
  • Mechanics of Greedy Search and A* search (OPEN/CLOSED list formulation of the latter)
  • Heuristics (what they are and what an "admissible" heuristic is)

  This material is from Chapters 3 and 4 from our text. See the syllabus for more detailed information.

• [9/9] The Assignment 2 web tester and Oracles are up. See the Assignment 2 Information page.

• [9/9] The code for the missionaries and cannibals problem from class last Friday is online in the Online course material section below.

• [9/9] Topics for Quiz 1 are:
  • Six blind searches
  • Questions about searches (completeness, optimality, time & space complexity)
  • State space vs. search tree
  • Nodes vs. states
  • Characteristics of environments
  • Two basic strategies for dealing with repeated states.

  All topics are from Chapter 3 in the text except for "Characteristics of environments" which is in Chapter 2.

  There will be no Scheme programming on the quizzes.

• [9/7] Assignment 2 files are available.

• [9/4] As announced in class yesterday, Houda Lamehamedi is no longer a TA for this class. In her place, starting today, is Kris Beevers. I'll introduce him in class on Friday.

• [9/3] The Assignment 1 web tester is up now. Turns out it was a permissions problem that took over an hour to track down...

• [8/30] Our WebCT course page is up. Please post any questions to the discussion boards there. Log in to WebCT.

• [8/30] The Assignment 1 Information page is up. You can find the support code there now; it will eventually have a link to the web tester when it is up.

• [8/28] The Web Tester Tester is up! Make sure you try out your CS login and Kerberos password.

• [8/28] The "Web Tester Tester" will be up later today.

• [8/8] I only placed the textbook order with the bookstore a week ago; hopefully they will receive the textbooks soon.