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This is the site for 6.034 Artificial Intelligence, Fall 2013, with Professor Patrick Winston.
 
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== '''Under construction for 2013'''<br/> '''1 September 2013''' ==
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== '''Welcome to the 2015 Edition of 6.034'''==
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Note that the current TA mailing list is 6.034-2015-support at mit.edu.
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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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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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* [http://logical.ai/6.034/ Quiz archive]
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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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<tr><td>By popular demand, the [http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.034f/sleep.pdf sleep slides]  are on line.  Also, [http://medweb.mit.edu/directory/staff/profiles/sbarry.html Susana (Zan) Barry], from MIT Medical, attended the lecture today.  She specializes in stress reduction and relaxation, eating, nutrition, and body image concerns, and sleep health, so she is eager to see any of you who need help in any of those dimensions, [http://medweb.mit.edu/wellness/programs/sleep.html sleep] in particular.
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Contents

Welcome to the 2015 Edition of 6.034

We are pleased to note ...

...that Bloomberg has listed 6.034 as among "Five of the Best Computer Science Classes in the U.S."

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 current TA mailing list is 6.034-2015-support at mit.edu.


News

June 2015

In the fall semester of 2015, 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.

Recitations (previously known as "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 recitation.

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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