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Topics and Playlist 2012
Assignment of material to quizzes is tentative, but final assignment will be announced well before each quiz.
srn in an assignment means the material will be in the "spiritual" and "right-now" part of the quiz. See Grading and collaboration policy.
September | Day | Topic | Quiz # | Playlist |
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5 | Wed | What it's all about | Start me up, Stones | |
10 | Mon | Goal trees and problem solving | 1 | This could be the last time, Stones |
12 | Wed | Rule-based expert systems (pp.53-60) | 1 | Engineer's Song, Chorallaries |
14 | Fri | Basic search | --- | Searchin', Beatles |
17 | Mon | Optimal search | 1 | Route 66, Stones |
19 | Wed | Games | 1 | It's Only Rock and Roll, Stones |
24 | Mon | Constraints in interpretation | 2srn | I Can't Get No Satisfaction, Stones |
26 | Wed | Quiz 1 | - | - |
October | Day | Topic | Quiz # | Playlist |
1 | Mon | Constraints in resource allocation | 2 | Paint it Black, Stones |
3 | Wed | Constraints in recognition | 2srn | The First Time I Saw your Face, Presley |
5 | Fri | Professor Gerald J. Sussman: Propagator systems | 2srn | |
10 | Wed | Nearest neighbor learning /Sleep | 2 | ABC song, Ray Charles et al. |
12 | Fri | Identification tree learning | 2 | Romanian national anthem, Desteapta-te române! |
15 | Mon | Better, and all you need to know: Neural net notes Lesser, but another explanation: Neural net book chapter | 3 | 19th Nervous Breakdown, Stones |
17 | Wed | Genetic algorithms | 3srn | Let's spend the night together, Stones |
19 | Fri | Professor Edward Boyden: real neural nets | 3srn | |
22 | Mon | Learning in sparse spaces | 3srn | You talk too much, Peas |
24 | Wed | Quiz 2 | - | - |
26 | Fri | Professor Shimon Ullman: understanding seeing | 3srn | |
29 | Mon | Hurricane | - | - |
31 | Wed | Support-vector machines, SVM (and Boosting) Notes | 3 | Get a little help from my friends, Beatles |
November | Day | Topic | Quiz # | Playlist |
2 | Fri | Professor Nancy Kanwisher: watching the brain at work Less than you want to know Maybe more than you want to know | 3srn | |
5 | Mon | Boosting (Winston and Ortiz notes), Boosting (Shapiri paper) | 4 | Workin' together, Ike and Tina Turner |
7 | Wed | Learning from near misses | 3srn | Hail to the Chief |
9 | Fri | Mega recitation: how to solve neural net quiz problems | - | - |
14 | Wed | Quiz 3 | - | - |
16 | Fri | Dr. Boris Katz: START, Watson, Siri and language understanding | 4srn | |
19 | Mon | Representation | 4srn | Imma Be Rocking that Body, Peas |
21 | Wed | The AI Business | - | Money, money, ABBA |
26 | Mon | Probabilistic inference I | 4 | |
28 | Wed | Probabilistic inference II | 4 | Tumbling Dice, Stones |
30 | Fri | Vikash Mansinghka: Statistical systems | 4srn | |
December | Day | Topic | Quiz # | Playlist |
3 | Mon | Hypotheses: more than you want to know | 4srn | Ode to Joy, Ninth Symphony, Beethoven |
5 | Wed | Quiz 4 | - | - |
10 | Mon | Cross-modal clustering: less and more than you want to know | 4srn | Don't stop, Stones |