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This is the site for 6.034 Artificial Intelligence, with Professor Patrick Winston.
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== '''Welcome to the 2013 Edition of 6.034'''==
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This is the site for 6.034 Artificial Intelligence, Fall 2013, with Professor Patrick Winston.
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This address, used a year ago, is now a black hole: fa13-6.034-staff@mit.edu
== News ==
== News ==
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__NOTOC__
 
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=== November 8, 2006 ===
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===30 January 2014===
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Because Friday is a holiday, the megarecitation, has become a quiz review, and will be held on Thursday, November 9, at 7pm, in 32-123.
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=== November 7, 2006 ===
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The following is a list of the subjects that the right-now speakers for fall, 2013, will be teaching in 2014.
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[[Problem set 4b]] is released.  It is due in one week.
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=== November 6, 2006 ===
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<table cellpadding=5 border=1><tr><td>
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Minsky </td><td>- </td><td>6.868 </td><td>Society of Mind posponed till fall </td></tr><tr><td>
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Sussman</td><td>S </td><td>6S081/6.945 </td><td>Wizard level symbolic programming</td></tr><tr><td>
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</td><td>F </td><td>6.946 </td><td>Computational Mechanics</td></tr><tr><td>
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Boyden </td><td>S </td><td>20.345 </td><td>Bioengineering Lab </td></tr><tr><td>
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</td><td>F </td><td>9.422 </td><td>Neuroengineering </td></tr><tr><td>
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Sinha </td><td>S </td><td>9.63 </td><td>Research metions in visiual cognition </td></tr><tr><td>
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</td><td>S </td><td>9.012 </td><td>Fundamentals of Cognitive Science </td></tr><tr><td>
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Harrell </td><td>F </td><td>CMS.628 </td><td>Identity represenation </td></tr><tr><td>
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Winston </td><td>S </td><td>6.803/6.833 </td><td>The human intelligence enterprise
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[[Problem set 4a]] mistakenly included a neural net problem in
 
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ps4.scm, called "question 3", which you are to ignore.
 
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Part 4b, which focues on neural nets, will be released this afternoon.
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Note that 6.868, Society of Mind, has been postponed until this fall.
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It does not involve any coding.  It will be due November 14th, the night
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before the quiz.  We thought it important to add 4b to 4a because it is
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highly likely that the next quiz will have a neural net problem.
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[[Problem set 4a]] has been updated with a new, more accurate public tester.
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Some of you may be interested in a small Special Topics seminar that Professor Minsky
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will be offering this spring. The seminar will be a collaborative, project-oriented
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seminar requiring a high degree of motivation, because you will closely collaborate with  
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faculty on an actual research project.  You should be either familiar with Professor
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Minsky's work or, alternatively, other A.I. literature and eager to read up on
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Professor Minsky's work. If you are interested in participating, please send a short
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cover letter and a resume, which includes your programming experience, to
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minsky-seminar-interest@mit.edu
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=== November 2, 2006 ===
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Attending the seminar won't preclude you from taking 6.868 this fall.
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'''[[Problem set 4a]]''' is released, due Wednesday, November 8. Expect a part b in the next day or two.
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=== October 27, 2006 ===
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===Jan 2014===
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==== Problem set 4 postponed!  No Mega-Recitation tomorrow! ====
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Final breakpoints
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Take a break -- you've earned it. There is no problem set this week.
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{| align="center" border="1"
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|Thorough understanding
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|Adequate understanding
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|Needs work
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|F1
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| &ge; 89
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| &ge; 75
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| &ge; 63
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|F2
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| &ge; 90
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| &ge; 81
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| &ge; 74
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|F3
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| &ge; 87
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| &ge; 78
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| &ge; 69
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|F4
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| &ge; 90
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| &ge; 80
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| &ge; 73
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Tutorials on Monday will cover various topics that aren't represented in the problem sets.
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===17 November 2013===
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Quiz 4 will be returned in tutorials Monday and Tuesday. Thresholds are:
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There is also no mega-recitation this week.
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|Adequate understanding
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|Problem 1 Adaboost
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| &ge; 45
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| &ge; 41
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| &ge; 36
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|Problem 2 Bayes nets
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| &ge; 43
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| &ge; 38
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| &ge; 34
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|Total
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| &ge; 88
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| &ge; 79
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| &ge; 70
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==== Problem set 3 ====
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For the SRN section of Quiz 4, your score out of 5 is equal to your raw score, with a maximum score of 5. (5 or 6 questions correct is a 5, 4 correct is a 4, 3 correct is a 3, etc.)
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Problem set 3 was re-graded. The original hidden tester had a flawed test case, and also didn't catch large problems with alpha-beta search. Updated grades have been sent out. (If you submitted late, your problem set hasn't been graded yet.)
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The problem set was scored out of 105, to reflect the 5 points from the game heuristic problem that were difficult to earn. The highest score was 102. Congratulations to all who earned that score by winning 7 out of 10 games.
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===5 December 2013===
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=== October 26, 2006 ===
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Location for the fourth and last quiz: if your family name starts with:
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==== Quiz 2 ====
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'''A-L''', you will take the quiz in Walker, 50-340.
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Quiz 2 has been graded. You can pick up your quiz in recitation today or tomorrow.
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Here's the grading breakdown to help you judge how you did:
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'''M-Z''', you will take the quiz in 10-250.
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! Problem !! Max. points !! Thorough understanding !! Acceptable understanding !! Needs help
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===17 November 2013===
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Quiz 3 will be returned in tutorials Monday and Tuesday.  Thresholds are:
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|Problem 1 Neural nets
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| &ge; 44
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| &ge; 38
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| &ge; 32
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|1B (Alpha-beta)          || 20 || &ge; 17 || &ge; 11 || &lt; 11
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|Problem 2 Support vector machines
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| &ge; 48
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| &ge; 43
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| &ge; 36
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|1C (Iterative deepening) || 10 || 10      || &ge; 6  || &lt; 6
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|Total
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| &ge; 92
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| &ge; 81
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| &ge; 68
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|1D (Optimal alpha-beta)  || 14 || &ge; 10 || &ge; 8  || &lt; 8
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For the SRN section of Quiz 3, your score out of 5 is equal to your raw score, with a maximum score of 5. (5 or 6 questions correct is a 5, 4 correct is a 4, 3 correct is a 3, etc.)
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===14 November 2013===
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Location for the third quiz: if your family name starts with:
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'''A-L''', you will take the quiz in 10-250.
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'''M-Z''', you will take the quiz in Walker, 50-340.
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As with all 6.034 quizzes, the quiz is open book, open notes --- you may bring any written material to the exam you like, and you may bring a calculator (but we don't expect you'll need one.)
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===28 October 2013===
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Quiz 2 will be returned in tutorials Monday and Tuesday. Thresholds are:
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|Problem 1 Identification Trees
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|2A (Forward checking, neighbors)        || 20 || &ge; 16 || &ge; 10 || &lt; 10
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|Problem 2 Constraint Propagation
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| &ge; 45
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| &ge; 38
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| &ge; 32
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|2B (Forward checking through singletons) || 20 || &ge; 18 || &ge; 14 || &lt; 14
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| &ge; 74
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| &ge; 62
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|2C (Most constrained first)             || 10 || &ge; || &ge; || &lt; 5
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For the SRN section of Quiz 2, your score out of 5 is equal to your raw score. (5 questions correct is a 5, 4 correct is a 4, etc.)
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===24 October 2013===
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Location for the second quiz: if your family name starts with:
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'''A-L''', you will take the quiz in Walker, 50-340.
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'''M-Z''', you will take the quiz in 10-250.
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As with all 6.034 quizzes, the quiz is open book, open notes --- you may bring any written material to the exam you like, and you may bring a calculator (but we don't expect you'll need one.)
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===21 October 2013===
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Per class consensus, questions about Right Now lecture on 23 October will appear on Quiz 2, rather than Quiz 3.
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Per several requests, the simulated evolution video is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBgG_VSP7f8
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===26 September 2013===
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Quiz 1 will be returned in tutorials Monday and Tuesday.  Thresholds are:
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|Problem 1 Rule-based systems
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| &ge; 47
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| &ge; 42
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| &ge; 36
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|Problem 2 Search
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| &ge; 40
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| &ge; 34
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| &ge; 26
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| &ge; 87
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| &ge; 76
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=== October 24, 2006 ===
 
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[http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.034/Fall/Examinations/ here].
 
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=== October 12, 2006 ===
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===23 September 2013===
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Lectures for Oct 18 and Oct 23 have been swapped.  Calendar reflects change.
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=== October 12, 2006 ===
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'''[[Problem set 3]]''' has been released, covering constraint propagation and game search. It's due next Wednesday, October 18.
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=== October 11, 2006 ===
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Location for the first quiz: if your family name starts with:
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Automatic grades for Problem Set #2 have been sent out.  If the email is blank, you did not submit anything for the pset.  If you submitted late, but did not email 6.034-tas, then do that now.  If you did not receive a grade, it is possible we don't know you're taking the class.  Send an email to 6.034-tas.
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=== September 28, 2006 ===
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'''A-L''', you will take the quiz in 10-250.
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====[[Problem set 2]]====
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'''M-Z''', you will take the quiz in Walker, 50-340.
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[[Problem set 2]] is out. It's due Wednesday, October 4.
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We've now written up a [[problem set grading policy]], which tells you things like:
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* How to submit a problem set late (for a 25% penalty)
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* What GraderBot does
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* Why you should run the tester and make sure it runs successfully before you submit
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===19 September 2013===
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6.034 never calculates class averages, because it is not graded on a curve. However, you can use this table to assess how you did on quiz 1.
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The registrar has scheduled the 6.034 final for Thursday, 19 December, 9-12, Johnson.
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===18 September 2013===
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! Problem !! Max. points !! Thorough understanding !! Acceptable understanding !! Needs help
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Clarification:
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Quiz 1 is as originally scheduled, Wednesday, 25 September, 2013.
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Quizzes 2, 3, and 4 are all delayed two days, from Wednesdays to Fridays:
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25 October  2013
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15 November 2013
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6  December 2013
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These changes were made so that we can use Walker as well as 10-250, making the quiz taking experience even more enjoyable.  You will all have 10-250 for two quizzes and Walker for the other two.
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===12 September 2013===
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Lecture tomorrow, Friday, is a lightning review of basic search, from depth first to the role of extended lists.  Some of you have seen this material more than once and may have other things to do.  We will presume you know the material and quiz questions that focus on other material may involved it by way of comparisons.
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===9 September 2013===
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We have set up a mailing list for the TAs: 6.034-2013-staff@mit.edu
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[http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/center-for-brains-minds-and-machines-0909.html Announcement of New Center for Collaborative Research on Intelligence]
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===5 September 2013===
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We have sent the following message to the registrar's class list, but as of this moment, you may not get it that way because the registrar has not yet got the entire class list in order:
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There is no 6.034 class tomorrow, 6 September.  The only Friday class in September is an optional lightning review of basic search on 13 September.  Tutorials begin on Monday, 9 September.  You will hear from your TA about where your tutorial will be held.
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If you did not fill out a tutorial scheduling form on the first day, pick one up in the plastic bin outside my office door tomorrow (32-251) and leave in another, obvious plastic bin.  Then, a TA will be in touch.
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===2 September 2013===
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In the fall semester of 2013, 6.034 will meet Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 10 to 11. 
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Most, but not all of Professor Winston's lectures will be on Monday and Wednesday. 
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On many, but not all Fridays, you will learn about what is happening in the field right now from someone who is doing work right now in an area related to the Monday and Wednesday lectures.
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Examinations will cover material from the traditional lectures as well as the right-now lectures.  It will be extremely difficult to field questions on the right-now material if you do not attend the right-now lectures because the material is not yet in textbooks or, in many cases, published papers.
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Tutorials will meet weekly on Monday and Tuesday.  On the first day of class, you will fill out a form that will enable us to assign you to a tutorial.
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There are no recitations.
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6.034 is no longer offered in the spring term.
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|Problem 1 Adaboost
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| &ge; 47
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| &ge; 43
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| &ge; 36
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|Problem 2 Bayes Nets
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| &ge; 43
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| &ge; 37
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| &ge; 30
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| &ge; 90
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| &ge; 80
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| &ge; 66
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=== September 27, 2006 ===
 
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There is no mega-recitation this week.
 
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You can pick up your graded quizzes in your recitation on Thursday or Friday, or at Prof. Winston's office (32-251).
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=== September 26, 2006 ===
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Quiz 3 will be returned in tutorials Monday and Tuesday.  Thresholds are:
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Tutorial hours will be held on Tuesday this week.  Monday was a student holiday so Monday students can go to ANY Tuesday tutorial they can makeThe tutorials will be a quiz review for Wednesday's quiz.  Bring questions about material you're unsure about.
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The exam will cover the material learned so far in the course, which can be found at [[Calendar]].  Exam questions are quite like what you've seen in mega-recitation and tutorials.  Past exams can be accessed
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|Thorough understanding
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|Adequate understanding
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|Needs work
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|Problem 1 Neural Nets
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| &ge; 44
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| &ge; 40
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| &ge; 33
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|Problem 2 Support Vector Machines
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| &ge; 47
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| &ge; 42
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| &ge; 35
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|Total
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| &ge; 91
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| &ge; 82
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| &ge; 68
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| &nbsp;
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|Problem 3 (SRN)
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| &ge; 5
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| &ge; 4
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| &ge; 3
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The terminology has changed over the past several years, and no previous 6.034 class has been in this format with four quizzes, so the mega-recitation still provides the best example problems for quizzes.
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==== 27 October 2012 ====
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In particular, we will not use the terms "trigger" and "visited list" this year, the quiz will be shorter than previous years' Quiz 1, and it will of course only cover topics we've covered in the class so far.
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Quiz 2 will be returned in tutorials Monday and Tuesday. Thresholds are:
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=== September 25, 2006 ===
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|Thorough understanding
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|Adequate understanding
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|Needs work
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|Problem 1 Constraints
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| &ge; 44
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| &ge; 38
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| &ge; 31
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|Problem 2 Learning
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| &ge; 47
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| &ge; 41
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| &ge; 34
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|Total
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| &ge; 91
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| &ge; 79
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| &ge; 65
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| &ge; 3
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=== September 22, 2006 ===
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==== 26 October 2012 ====
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[[Problem set 1]] has been graded, and the grades were e-mailed out by GraderBot. If you haven't received any grade e-mails yet, we might not know you're in the class, so [mailto:6.034-tas@mit.edu e-mail the TAs].
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The [http://web.mit.edu/6.034/psets-f06/ps0 solutions to pset 0] and [http://web.mit.edu/6.034/psets-f06/ps1 solutions to pset 1] have been released.
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All discussion sessions, going forward, will be in 5-134.
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=== September 19, 2006 ===
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==== 10 October 2012 ====
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An erratum has been added to [[Problem set 1]], clarifying some inconsistency in the use of the word "trigger".
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=== September 17, 2006 ===
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|Needs work
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| &ge; 46
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| &ge; 40
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| &ge; 33
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|Problem 2 Search
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| &ge; 43
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| &ge; 38
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| &ge; 31
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| &ge; 78
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==== Subject suggestions for Spring 2012 ====
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6.945 Large-scale Symbolic Systems, definitely cancelled, as Professor Sussman has been called to service in MITx.
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6.868J The Society of Mind, waiting for information on status, as Professor Minsky taught subject already in the fall, an anomaly.
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9.520 [http://www.mit.edu/%7E9.520/ Statistical Learning theory], new subject, Professor Poggio et al., not for the mathematically timid.  Poggio's interests are centered on understanding biological intelligence, particularly vision.
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MAS S60 [http://web.media.mit.edu/~havasi/MAS.560/ Special Topics: Practical Natural Language Processing], Dr. Havasi.
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6.xxx aka 6.803/6.833, [http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.803/index.html The Human Intelligence Enterprise], PHW, lotteried, current P approximately 0.5.  Two sections, both taught by PHW, first meeting and lottery on Wednesday, 8 February, contrary to incorrect listing somewhere that the subject will meet on Monday, 6, February.
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6.049J Evolutionary Biology: Concepts, Models and Computation, Professor Berwick.  Alas, Professor Berwick is not teaching his natural language subject this spring.  If you can't take his evolution subject, be sure to go to Tattersall's guest lecture anyway, which will be announced on this web site as soon as date is fixed.
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15.668, People and Organizations, Professor Kochan, immediate past Chair of the Faculty.  All about how to be productive, and useful, in your first job by learning negotiation, leadership, and teamwork skills.  A good complement to aspects of 6.xxx, but more business oriented.
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[[Tutorials | Tutorial assignments]] have been published. Please check here to ensure we have you assigned to a tutorial and that it is the one you expect.
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Contents

Welcome to the 2013 Edition of 6.034

This is the site for 6.034 Artificial Intelligence, Fall 2013, with Professor Patrick Winston.


Road map:

To see how 6.034 outcomes relate to the outcomes of other subjects in the Course 6 curriculum, see the graphical display in the 6.034 Curricular Goals Map

Logistical stuff:

Reference stuff:

  • Labs (also known as "problem sets")



Note that the TA address is: 6.034-2013-staff@mit.edu

This address, used a year ago, is now a black hole: fa13-6.034-staff@mit.edu

News

30 January 2014

The following is a list of the subjects that the right-now speakers for fall, 2013, will be teaching in 2014.

Minsky - 6.868 Society of Mind posponed till fall
SussmanS 6S081/6.945 Wizard level symbolic programming
F 6.946 Computational Mechanics
Boyden S 20.345 Bioengineering Lab
F 9.422 Neuroengineering
Sinha S 9.63 Research metions in visiual cognition
S 9.012 Fundamentals of Cognitive Science
Harrell F CMS.628 Identity represenation
Winston S 6.803/6.833 The human intelligence enterprise


Note that 6.868, Society of Mind, has been postponed until this fall.

Some of you may be interested in a small Special Topics seminar that Professor Minsky will be offering this spring. The seminar will be a collaborative, project-oriented seminar requiring a high degree of motivation, because you will closely collaborate with faculty on an actual research project. You should be either familiar with Professor Minsky's work or, alternatively, other A.I. literature and eager to read up on Professor Minsky's work. If you are interested in participating, please send a short cover letter and a resume, which includes your programming experience, to minsky-seminar-interest@mit.edu

Attending the seminar won't preclude you from taking 6.868 this fall.

Jan 2014

Final breakpoints

Thorough understanding Adequate understanding Needs work
F1 ≥ 89 ≥ 75 ≥ 63
F2 ≥ 90 ≥ 81 ≥ 74
F3 ≥ 87 ≥ 78 ≥ 69
F4 ≥ 90 ≥ 80 ≥ 73

17 November 2013

Quiz 4 will be returned in tutorials Monday and Tuesday. Thresholds are:

Thorough understanding Adequate understanding Needs work
Problem 1 Adaboost ≥ 45 ≥ 41 ≥ 36
Problem 2 Bayes nets ≥ 43 ≥ 38 ≥ 34
Total ≥ 88 ≥ 79 ≥ 70

For the SRN section of Quiz 4, your score out of 5 is equal to your raw score, with a maximum score of 5. (5 or 6 questions correct is a 5, 4 correct is a 4, 3 correct is a 3, etc.)

5 December 2013

Location for the fourth and last quiz: if your family name starts with:

A-L, you will take the quiz in Walker, 50-340.

M-Z, you will take the quiz in 10-250.

As with all 6.034 quizzes, the quiz is open book, open notes --- you may bring any written material to the exam you like, and you may bring a calculator (but we don't expect you'll need one.)

17 November 2013

Quiz 3 will be returned in tutorials Monday and Tuesday. Thresholds are:

Thorough understanding Adequate understanding Needs work
Problem 1 Neural nets ≥ 44 ≥ 38 ≥ 32
Problem 2 Support vector machines ≥ 48 ≥ 43 ≥ 36
Total ≥ 92 ≥ 81 ≥ 68

For the SRN section of Quiz 3, your score out of 5 is equal to your raw score, with a maximum score of 5. (5 or 6 questions correct is a 5, 4 correct is a 4, 3 correct is a 3, etc.)

14 November 2013

Location for the third quiz: if your family name starts with:

A-L, you will take the quiz in 10-250.

M-Z, you will take the quiz in Walker, 50-340.

As with all 6.034 quizzes, the quiz is open book, open notes --- you may bring any written material to the exam you like, and you may bring a calculator (but we don't expect you'll need one.)

28 October 2013

Quiz 2 will be returned in tutorials Monday and Tuesday. Thresholds are:

Thorough understanding Adequate understanding Needs work
Problem 1 Identification Trees ≥ 44 ≥ 36 ≥ 30
Problem 2 Constraint Propagation ≥ 45 ≥ 38 ≥ 32
Total ≥ 89 ≥ 74 ≥ 62

For the SRN section of Quiz 2, your score out of 5 is equal to your raw score. (5 questions correct is a 5, 4 correct is a 4, etc.)

24 October 2013

Location for the second quiz: if your family name starts with:

A-L, you will take the quiz in Walker, 50-340.

M-Z, you will take the quiz in 10-250.

As with all 6.034 quizzes, the quiz is open book, open notes --- you may bring any written material to the exam you like, and you may bring a calculator (but we don't expect you'll need one.)

21 October 2013

Per class consensus, questions about Right Now lecture on 23 October will appear on Quiz 2, rather than Quiz 3.

Per several requests, the simulated evolution video is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBgG_VSP7f8

26 September 2013

Quiz 1 will be returned in tutorials Monday and Tuesday. Thresholds are:

Thorough understanding Adequate understanding Needs work
Problem 1 Rule-based systems ≥ 47 ≥ 42 ≥ 36
Problem 2 Search ≥ 40 ≥ 34 ≥ 26
Total ≥ 87 ≥ 76 ≥ 62


23 September 2013

Location for the first quiz: if your family name starts with:

A-L, you will take the quiz in 10-250.

M-Z, you will take the quiz in Walker, 50-340.

As with all 6.034 quizzes, the quiz is open book, open notes --- you may bring any written material to the exam you like, and you may bring a calculator (but we don't expect you'll need one.)

19 September 2013

The registrar has scheduled the 6.034 final for Thursday, 19 December, 9-12, Johnson.

18 September 2013

Clarification:

Quiz 1 is as originally scheduled, Wednesday, 25 September, 2013.

Quizzes 2, 3, and 4 are all delayed two days, from Wednesdays to Fridays:

25 October 2013 15 November 2013 6 December 2013

These changes were made so that we can use Walker as well as 10-250, making the quiz taking experience even more enjoyable. You will all have 10-250 for two quizzes and Walker for the other two.

12 September 2013

Lecture tomorrow, Friday, is a lightning review of basic search, from depth first to the role of extended lists. Some of you have seen this material more than once and may have other things to do. We will presume you know the material and quiz questions that focus on other material may involved it by way of comparisons.

9 September 2013

We have set up a mailing list for the TAs: 6.034-2013-staff@mit.edu

Announcement of New Center for Collaborative Research on Intelligence

5 September 2013

We have sent the following message to the registrar's class list, but as of this moment, you may not get it that way because the registrar has not yet got the entire class list in order:

There is no 6.034 class tomorrow, 6 September. The only Friday class in September is an optional lightning review of basic search on 13 September. Tutorials begin on Monday, 9 September. You will hear from your TA about where your tutorial will be held.

If you did not fill out a tutorial scheduling form on the first day, pick one up in the plastic bin outside my office door tomorrow (32-251) and leave in another, obvious plastic bin. Then, a TA will be in touch.


2 September 2013

In the fall semester of 2013, 6.034 will meet Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 10 to 11. Most, but not all of Professor Winston's lectures will be on Monday and Wednesday. On many, but not all Fridays, you will learn about what is happening in the field right now from someone who is doing work right now in an area related to the Monday and Wednesday lectures.

Examinations will cover material from the traditional lectures as well as the right-now lectures. It will be extremely difficult to field questions on the right-now material if you do not attend the right-now lectures because the material is not yet in textbooks or, in many cases, published papers.

Tutorials will meet weekly on Monday and Tuesday. On the first day of class, you will fill out a form that will enable us to assign you to a tutorial.

There are no recitations.

6.034 is no longer offered in the spring term.

More details will emerge during the first lecture on Wednesday, September 4.




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