| Week | Date | Topic |
Readings | Presenters | Notes |
| 1 | 08-18 | Introduction | |
| | 08-21 | Current state of game AI | |
| 2 | 08-26 | Unreal Tournament programming primer |
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Homeworks 1-4 posted |
| | 08-28 | Innovative Game AI papers and discussion |
Stanley05
Orkin05 |
Mark
Mark |
| 3 | 09-02 | Miscellaneous, plus intro to camera control |
El-Nasr04
Wiggins98 |
Daniel
Aaron |
| | 09-04 | Camera control |
Christianson96
He96
Bares99 |
J.R.
Barbara
Mark |
Homework 1 due (4731 only) |
| 4 | 09-09 | Camera control |
Thomlinson00
Jhala06
Elson07 |
Gaurav
Gaurav
Mark |
| | 09-11 | Animated agents |
Doyle97
Perlin96
Blumberg95 |
John M.
Logan
Arno |
Homework 2 due (4731 only) |
| 5 | 09-16 | Guest lecture, Santi Ontanon |
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| | 09-18 | Guest from EA Games | | |
Homework 3 due (4731 only) |
| 6 | 09-23 | Interactive stories |
Mateas97
Nelson05
Cavazza02 |
Scott
Daniel
Mark |
Teams formed |
| | 09-25 | Interactive stories |
Mateas02
Magerko07 (sec. 1-4)
Riedl03 |
Zach
Matt
Mark |
| 7 | 09-30 | Project group meeting time |
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Homeworks 4 due (4731 only) |
| | 10-02 | Class cancelled | |
| 8 | 10-07 | Project pitches |
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Pitch materials due |
| | 10-09 | Project pitches | |
| 9 | 10-14 | Fall Break |
| | 10-16 | Story generation |
Meehan81 (ch. 9 only)
Lebowitz84
Lebowitz85 |
Scott
Andrew
Andrew |
Critiques due |
| 10 | 10-21 | Story generation plus discussion |
Perez01
Riedl04 |
Jeffrey
Mark |
| | 10-23 | GVU Demo Day |
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| 11 | 10-28 | Computational Emotion |
Picard97 (ch. 5 & 7)
Gratch04 (sec. 1-5)
El-Nasr00 |
Chinmay
Kai
David |
GVU demo day summaries |
| | 10-30 | Project group meeting time | |
| 12 | 11-04 | AIIDE papers | |
| | 11-06 | Project group meeting time | |
| 13 | 11-11 | Commonsense reasoning and theory-of-mind |
Havasi07
Mueller07 (sec. 1-7)
Marsella05 |
Shantanu
Devika
Arno |
Status reports due |
| | 11-13 | Machine learning |
Isbell06 (sec. 1-6)
Thomaz08 |
Aashay
Chinmay |
| 14 | 11-18 | Natural Language |
Maybury92 (sec. 1-6.1)
Mateas04 |
Logan
Kai |
| | 11-20 | Plan/goal recognition |
Albrecht98 (sec. 1-5)
Carberry88
Lesh98 (sec. 1-2) |
Aashay
Shantanu
Devika |
| 15 | 11-25 | Project meeting time (Mark out) | |
| | 11-27 | Thanksgiving |
| 16 | 12-02 | Project meeting time (Mark in) | |
| | 12-04 | Project meeting time (Mark in) | |
Exam
period | 12-12 | Demo to instructor for grading
Demo to evaluation team | | |
Final assessment reports due
Final papers due (8803 only) |