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This is the site for 6.034 Artificial Intelligence, with Professor Patrick Winston.
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== '''Welcome to the 2014 Edition of 6.034'''==
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* [[Problem sets]]
 
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'''As a 6.034 student, you are responsible for knowing all of the policies described on this website.'''
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You should familiarize yourself with the [[Frequently Asked Questions | FAQs]] and [[Grading and collaboration policy | grading policy]].
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* [[Frequently Asked Questions]]
 
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* [http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.034f/Examinations Previous examinations]
 
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== News ==
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=== December 19, 2006 ===
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It's over! Graded finals are available in Patrick's office (32-251).
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The TAs have finally gotten around to writing the hidden tester for [[Problem set 5]]. You should receive grades shortly. Since the PS5 grade is coming out of nowhere after the final, we've decided that your average can't be hurt, only helped, by PS5.
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=== December 14, 2006 ===
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To see how 6.034 outcomes relate to the outcomes of other subjects in the Course 6 curriculum, see the graphical display in the [http://6004.mit.edu/gmap/public.html?focus=6.034 6.034 Curricular Goals Map]
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Luis Ortiz will hold office hours in the student street near 32-123 at 11-1 tomorrow, Saturday.  Final review 32-123 at 1+.  Old quizes are like to be available in same area at 12-1.
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* [[Staff | Staff email addresses]]
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* [[Office Hours | Office Hours]]
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* [[Reference material and playlist | What material will be on the quiz?]]
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=== December 13, 2006 ===
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===Reference stuff:===
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There remains some confusion about how we are computing grades.  Read this to be sure you are not among the confused.
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* [[Calendar]]
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The maximizing operator we propose to use will recognize topic areas corresponding to the
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four quizes, not the problems that appeared on the quizzes.  Thus, for example, if you
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Quiz 4 to get an A for that topic area, not just the boosting part (presuming that topic
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with where you are, it will do absolutely no harm to ignore the corresponding section
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The performance of other students does not matter as there is no curve.  If you elect to ignore part of the final, it does not matter how the people who work on that part perform; it does not matter if they all get 0 or all get 100 as far a your score is concerned (that is, the quiz threshholds, once set, are never adjusted).
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* [[Demonstrations]]
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that you were just a hair above the upper threshold on all the quizzes; you would have a 4.5 + epsilon for those, but if you
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* [http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.034f/2014polls/Workload.pdf End of term workload survey] 
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* [http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.034f/2014polls/FrancisChen.pdf Francis Chen's confidence survey, Executive Summary] 
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=== December 12, 2006 ===
 
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[[Problem set 5]], the last problem set in this course, has been released. It's due Wednesday, November 29.
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We are holding final review sessions this Thursday and Friday, 11am-3pm in 34-301.  There will be one hour for each of the eight core topics, following [[Office_Hours#Final_Review_Sessions | this schedule]].
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=== 7 December 2014 ===
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=== 5 December 2014 ===
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[[Problem set 4b]] is released.  It is due in one week.
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'''If you wish to take the subject, but have not yet signed up,''' please go through the add ritual as soon as practicable, so we can ask the department for more help.
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Contents

Welcome to the 2014 Edition of 6.034

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")

2014 Surveys:




News

9 December 2014

We are holding final review sessions this Thursday and Friday, 11am-3pm in 34-301. There will be one hour for each of the eight core topics, following this schedule.

7 December 2014

We have released the promised grade calculator. See reference stuff above.

5 December 2014

Quiz 4 will be returned in tutorials next Monday and Tuesday. Alternatively, you can pick up your quiz from Prof. Winston's office when he is in. Thresholds are:

Thorough understandingAdequate understanding Needs work
Problem 1: Adaboost ≥ 45 ≥ 41 ≥ 36
Problem 2: Bayesian Inference ≥ 45 ≥ 42 ≥ 36
Total ≥ 90 ≥ 83 ≥ 72


Thorough understandingAdequate understanding Needs work
Spiritual and right-now ≥ 5 ≥4 ≥3

11 November 2014

Quiz 3 will be returned in tutorials next Monday and Tuesday. Alternatively, you can pick up your quiz from Prof. Winston's office. Thresholds are:

Thorough understandingAdequate understanding Needs work
Problem 1: Neural nets ≥ 43 ≥ 38 ≥32
Problem 2: Support vector machines ≥45 ≥41 ≥35
Total ≥ 88 ≥79 ≥67


Thorough understandingAdequate understanding Needs work
Spiritual and right-now ≥ 5 ≥4 ≥3

19 October 2014

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

Thorough understandingAdequate understanding Needs work
Problem 1: Nearest neighbors & identification trees ≥ 45 ≥40 ≥35
Problem 2: Constraint satisfaction problems ≥43 ≥37 ≥31
Total ≥ 88 ≥77 ≥66


Thorough understandingAdequate understanding Needs work
Spiritual and right-now ≥ 5 ≥4 ≥3

12 October 2014

Some students have asked where to find solutions to the first quiz. Solutions to this year's exams are made available in the quiz archive, along with the previous year's exams. In particular, here are the solutions to the first quiz: [1] .

8 October 2014

As was announced in lecture, there will be no tutorials next week. In place of tutorials on Tuesday, October 14, there will be office hours from 10 AM to 9 PM. Details can be found on the Office Hours page.

There will be no office hours on Wednesday, October 15 due to quiz grading.

2 October 2014

A new, Java 8, version of the Demonstration package has just been released. See Demonstrations, above.

28 September 2014

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

Thorough understandingAdequate understanding Needs work
Problem 1: Rule-based systems ≥ 35 ≥30 ≥25
Problem 2: Search ≥52 ≥46 ≥38
Total ≥ 87 ≥76 ≥63

23 September 2014

Note that there is an in-class examination on Friday, 26 September. If your family name is in the A-L range, you will take the exam in Walker, 50-340. Else, you will take it in 10-250.

18 September 2014

The final has been scheduled for Tuesday, December 16, 9:00 to 12:00 noon in Johnson-Track.

3 September 2014

Next lecture is Monday, 8 September (no class on Friday, 5 September). Tutorials begin on Monday. If you have not filled out a tutorial availability form, fetch one from the plastic bin outside Professor Winston's office (32-251), fill it out, and put it back in marked place.

Rules of engagement are now explained in Frequently asked questions.


If you wish to take the subject, but have not yet signed up, please go through the add ritual as soon as practicable, so we can ask the department for more help.

June 2014

In the fall semester of 2014, 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, 3 September 2014.

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