This schedule for the Project in AI course in Spring 2022 includes a weekly summary of in-class activities, and pre-class and post-class responsibilities. For more detailed descriptions of what these responsibilities are, see Course Organization.

All assigned materials (with a few exceptions) are available on this Schedule.

Quizzes occur on most Wednesdays in class.

Summary of project deliverables

Submit Project Part 1 by Saturday, March 19 at 11:59 pm (deliverable details)
Submit Project Part 2 by Friday, April 29 at 11:59 pm (deliverable details)

WEEK 1:

Topics:

Course Overview
Social simulation

Class meeting (Wednesday, January 19 ):

Course overview

To Do before January 21 class:

Read and understand the syllabus (this site) carefully
Start reading for Week 2 (below)

Class meeting (Friday, January 21 ):

Discuss simulation (slides)

To Do after January 21 class:

Submit opening survey to Brightspace by 11:59 pm Friday, January 21
For Week 2 (Quiz Qw2)
- Read the first three sections (about 14 pages) of Pat Langley, John E. Laird, Seth Rogers (2009). Cognitive Systems Research, Volume 10, Issue 2, June 2009, Pages 141-160, Cognitive architectures: Research issues and challenges. http://www.isle.org/~langley/papers/final.arch.pdf (preprint)
- Watch videos on Project 1 (slides, Recording 1, Recording 2)

WEEK 2:

Topics:

AI systems
Team formation

To Do before January 24 class:

Do readings and videos for Week 2 activities

Class meeting (Monday, January 24):

Discuss Readings Same as above (partially marked up Langley et al paper) (slides)
Discuss project (slides, Recording 1, Recording 2) Same as above

To Do before January 26 class:

Study for Quiz Qw2 (syllabus, reading, lecture, videos)

Class meeting (Wednesday, January 26):

Quiz Qw2
Discuss project in small groups

To Do after February 4 class:

~~Instructor announces student teams~~

Class meeting (Friday, January 28):

To Do after January 28 class:

For Week 3 (Quiz Qw3)
- Read Sections 1-3 of Villarroel, J.A., Taylor, J.E., & Tucci, C. (2013). Innovation and learning performance implications of free revealing and knowledge brokering in competing communities: insights from the Netflix Prize challenge. Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, 19, 42-77.

WEEK 3:

Topics:

Planning and learning continued
Coopetition

To Do BEFORE January 31 class:

Submit individual updates on team progress to Brightspace by 11:59 pm Sunday, January 30
Instructor announces final student teams
Do For Week 3 activities (see above)

Class meeting (Monday, January 31):

Student Teams meet

To Do BEFORE February 2 class:

Do For Week 3 activities (see above)

Class meeting (Wednesday, February 2):

~~Quiz Qw3~~
~~Optional Team Presentations (signup)~~
Discuss “For Week 3” readings (above) Villarroel, Taylor, & Tucci paper

To Do BEFORE February 4 class:

Class meeting (Friday, February 4):

Quiz Qw3
Optional Team Presentations (signup)

To Do after February 4 class:

For Week 4 (Quiz Qw4)
- Read Mark O. Riedl and Vadim Bulitko (2013). Interactive Narrative:
  An Intelligent Systems Approach, AI Magazine, Spring Issue, 67—77. https://www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/aimagazine/article/view/2449

WEEK 4:

Topics:

To Do BEFORE February 7 class:

Submit individual updates on team progress to Brightspace by 11:59 pm Sunday, February 6
Do For Week 4 activities (see above)

Class meeting (Monday, February 7)

Discuss “For Week 4” readings (assigned under Week 3, marked up Reidl and Bulitko paper)

To Do BEFORE February 9 class:

Study for Quiz Qw4

Class meeting (Wednesday, February 9):

Quiz Qw4 (must be taken in class)
~~Optional Team Presentations (signup)~~
Work in groups

To Do BEFORE February 11 class:

Class meeting (Friday, February 11):

REQUIRED Team Presentations (signup)

To Do after February 11 class:

For Week 5
- Read sections 1, 2, and 5 of Baruch, Y. and Lin, C. (2012). All for one, one for all: Coopetition and virtual team performance. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 79(6), 1155-1168. https://www.academia.edu/21224316/All_for_one_one_for_all_Coopetition_and_virtual_team_performance (moved until after Spring break)

WEEK 5:

To Do BEFORE February 14 class:

Submit individual updates on team progress to Brightspace by 11:59 pm Sunday, February 13
Do For Week 5 activities (see above)

In Class (February 14):

Optional team presentations (signup)

To Do BEFORE February 16 class:

In Class (February 16): Doug out

~~Discuss “For Weeks 5” Reading~~
~~Optional team presentations (signup)~~

To Do BEFORE February 18 class:

Work on project

In Class (February 18): Doug out

~~Discuss “For Week 5” Readings~~
~~Optional team presentations (signup)~~

To Do after February 18 class:

For Week 6
- work on project

WEEK 6:

To Do BEFORE February 21 class:

Submit individual updates on team progress to Brightspace by 11:59 pm Sunday, February 20

In Class (February 21):

Optional team presentations (signup)

To Do BEFORE February 23 class:

In Class (February 23):

Optional team presentations (signup)

To Do BEFORE February 23 class:

Work on project

In Class (February 25):

Optional team presentations (signup)

To Do after February 25 class:

For Week 8
- work on project

WEEK 7:

To Do BEFORE February 28 class:

Submit individual updates on team progress to Brightspace by 11:59 pm Sunday, February 27

In Class (February 28):

Optional team presentations (signup)

To Do BEFORE March 2 class:

In Class (March 2):

Optional team presentations (signup)

To Do BEFORE March 4 class:

Work on project

In Class (March 4):

Optional team presentations (signup)

To Do after March 4 class:

For Week 6
- work on project

WEEK 8: Spring Break

WEEK 9:

To Do BEFORE March 14 class:

~~Submit individual updates on team progress to Brightspace by 11:59 pm Sunday, March 13~~

In Class (March 14):

Optional team presentations (signup)

To Do BEFORE March 16 class:

In Class (March 16):

Optional team presentations (signup)

To Do BEFORE March 18 class:

Work on project

In Class (March 18):

Optional team presentations (signup)

To Do after March 18 class:

Submit Project Part 1 by Saturday, March 19 at 11:59 pm (grading and deliverable details)
For Week 10
- work on project

WEEK 10:

To Do BEFORE March 21 class:

Submit individual updates on team progress to Brightspace by 11:59 pm Sunday, March 20

In Class (March 21):

Optional team presentations (signup)

To Do BEFORE March 23 class:

In Class (March 23):

Optional team presentations (signup)
Project Part 2

To Do BEFORE March 25 class:

Work on project

In Class (March 25):

Optional team presentations (signup)

To Do after March 25 class:

For Week 11
- work on project
- Read sections 1, 2, and 5 of Baruch, Y. and Lin, C. (2012). All for one, one for all: Coopetition and virtual team performance. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 79(6), 1155-1168. https://www.academia.edu/21224316/All_for_one_one_for_all_Coopetition_and_virtual_team_performance

WEEK 11:

To Do BEFORE March 28 class:

Submit individual updates on team progress to Brightspace by 11:59 pm Sunday, March 27

In Class (March 28):

Discuss ‘For week 11 reading (marked up Baruch, Y. and Lin, C )

To Do BEFORE March 30 class:

In Class (March 30):

Quiz Qw11

To Do BEFORE April 1 class:

Work on project

In Class (April 1)

Required team presentations (

To Do after April 1 class:

For Week 12
- Read Braungart, Michael, McDonough, William, Bollinger, Andrew (2007). Cradle-to-cradle design: creating healthy emissions strategy for eco-effective product and system design https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0959652606002587 (you should have access through Vanderbilt University — let me know of difficulties)

WEEK 12:

To Do BEFORE April 4 class:

Submit individual updates on team progress to Brightspace by 11:59 pm Sunday, April 3

In Class (April 4):

Discuss https://cdn-dev.vanderbilt.edu/t2-my-dev/wp-content/uploads/sites/3191/2021/04/EcoEffectiveness-main.pdf

To Do BEFORE April 6 class:

In Class (April 6):

Quiz Qw12

To Do BEFORE April 8 class:

Work on project

In Class (April 8):

Required Team Updates

To Do after April 8 class:

For Week 13
- Read Singer, Emily (2015). Game Theory Calls Cooperation into Question. Reprinted in Scientific American from Quanta Magazine. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/game-theory-calls-cooperation-into-question1/

WEEK 13:

To Do BEFORE April 11 class:

Submit individual updates on team progress to Brightspace by 11:59 pm Sunday, April 10

In Class (April 11):

Discuss https://cdn-dev.vanderbilt.edu/t2-my-dev/wp-content/uploads/sites/3191/2021/03/game-theory-explains-how-cooperation-evolved-20150212.pdf (plus a fun RadioLab podcast on the Prisoner’s Dilemma, tit for tat, and larger implications)

To Do BEFORE April 13 class:

In Class (April 13):

Quiz Qw13

To Do BEFORE April 15 class:

Work on project

In Class (April 15):

Required Team Updates

To Do after April 15 class:

For Week 14
- work on project

WEEK 14:

To Do BEFORE April 18 class:

Submit individual updates on team progress to Brightspace by 11:59 pm Sunday, April 17

In Class (April 18):

Retrospective

To Do BEFORE April 20 class:

In Class (April 20):

Retrospective

To Do BEFORE April 22 class:

Work on project

In Class (April 22):

Retrospective

To Do after April 22 class:

For Week 15
- work on project

WEEK 15:

To Do BEFORE April 25 class:

Submit individual updates on team progress to Brightspace by 11:59 pm Sunday, April 24

In Class (April 25):

Work on Prrojects

To Do BEFORE April 27 class:

In Class (April 27):

Final Presentations

To Do BEFORE April 29 class:

Work on project
Immersion Project Presentation 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Thursday April 28 FGH Atrium

In Class (April 29):

Final Presentations

To Do after April 29 class:

Submit Project Part 2 by Friday, April 29 at 11:59 pm (deliverable details)

Classes End (Friday, April 29)