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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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6 | Wed | What it's all about | Start me up, Stones | |
8 | Fri | Goal trees and problem solving | 1 | This could be the last time, Stones |
11 | Mon | Rule-based expert systems (pp.53-60) | 1 | It's Only Rock and Roll |
13 | Wed | Lightning review: Basic search | 1 | Searchin', Beatles |
15 | Fri | Optimal search | 1 | |
18 | Mon | Games | 1 | Oh no, not you again |
20 | Wed | Constraints in interpretation | 2srn | I Can't Get No Satisfaction, Stones |
22 | Fri | Constraints in resource allocation | 2 | Paint it Black, Stones |
25 | Mon | Gerald J. Sussman | 2srn | - |
27 | Wed | Quiz 1 | - | - |
29 | Fri | Holiday: Student | - | - |
October | Day | Topic | Quiz # | Playlist |
2 | Mon | Nearest neighbor learning /Sleep | 2 | ABC song, Ray Charles et al. |
4 | Wed | Identification tree learning | 2 | Romanian national anthem, Desteapta-te române! |
6 | Fri | Edward Boyden: Real neural nets | 2srn | - |
9 | Mon | Holiday: Columbus day | - | - |
11 | Wed | Neural net learning | 3 | 19th Nervous Breakdown, Stones |
13 | Fri | Deep neural nets | 2srn | Ain't no mountain high enough, Marvin Gaye |
16 | Mon | Nancy Kanwisher: What lights up when you think | 2srn | You ain' nothin' but a hound dog, Presley |
18 | Wed | Quiz 2 | - | - |
20 | Fri | AlphaGo and AlphaGo Zero | 3srn | It's all in a game, Tommy Edwards |
23 | Mon | Genetic algorithms | 3srn | Let's spend the night together, Stones |
25 | Wed | Learning in sparse spaces | 3/3srn | You talk too much, Peas |
27 | Fri | Support-vector machines, SVM (and Boosting) Notes | 3 | |
30 | Mon | Learning from near misses | 3/3srn | Creepy music for Halloween |
November | Day | Topic | Quiz # | Playlist |
1 | Wed | Representation | 3srn | Thus spake Zarathustra, Strauss |
3 | Fri | Pattie Maes | 3srn | - |
6 | Mon | Architecture: GPS, SOAR, Subsumption, Society of Mind | 3srn | |
8 | Wed | Quiz 3 | - | - |
10 | Fri | Holiday: Veteran's day | - | - |
13 | Mon | Lightning review: Probability | 4 | Tumbling Dice, Stones |
15 | Wed | Probabilistic inference | 4 | Searchin', Coasters |
17 | Fri | Vikash Mansinghka: Statistical systems | 4srn | -- |
20 | Mon | Boosting (Winston and Ortiz notes), Boosting (Shapire paper) | 4 | Workin' together, Ike and Tina Turner |
22 | Wed | The AI Biz | - | Money, Money, ABBA |
24 | Fri | Holiday: Thanksgiving | - | - |
27 | Mon | Bob Berwick: The truth about human intelligence; Merge | 4srn | Animals, Stop Making Sense |
29 | Wed | Patrick Winston: The truth about human intelligence: Stories | 4srn | -- |
December | Day | Topic | Quiz # | Playlist |
1 | Fri | Gill Pratt: Cars, Brains, Robots | 4srn | -- |
4 | Mon | Self organizing maps, cross modal coupling, correlation, regularity detection | 4srn | - |
6 | Wed | Quiz 4 | - | - |
8 | Fri | Pawan Sinha: TBD | Final bonus srn | - |
11 | Mon | Nick Montfort: TBD | Final bonus srn | - |
13 | Wed | How to prepare for the final, the future, what to take next, self-conscious computing | Final bonus srn | Don't stop, Stones |
20 | Wed | Final, Johnson Track, 9:00-12:00 noon | - | - |