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This is the site for 6.034 Artificial Intelligence, with Professor Patrick Winston.
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== News ==
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===We are pleased to note ...===
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=== Monday, December 15 ===
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...that Bloomberg has listed 6.034 as among [http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-11/five-of-the-best-computer-science-classes-in-the-country "Five of the Best Computer Science Classes in the U.S."]
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<b>End Game</b>
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What they meant to say is that 6.034 has had outstanding TAs.  Among them is head-TA
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Jessica Noss, the 2016 winner of the EECS Carlton E.  Tucker Award for outstanding
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teaching as a graduate-student teaching assistant.
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===Road map:===
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<li> You may learn your grade and look at your final at Professor Winston's office after Wednesday, noon, December 17. By institute rule, we cannot let you keep your final as we are required to retain them for a year.
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<li> Alternatively, you can learn your grade via WEBSIS soon after December 17.
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<li> You cannot get your grade any other way. By institute rules, we cannot give out grades by telephone, nor can we post grades. In particular, if you go to the Undergraduate Office, and ask for your grade, you will drive the normally kind, courteous, and helpful Anne Hunter crazy with rage, which will be viciously directed at the 6.034 staff.
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We of the staff wish you good hunting on your other finals, and a rejuvenating holiday. Get some sleep.
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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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* [http://goo.gl/forms/5Q6X53fNrE Suggestion Box]
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* [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGU5NkkzdGdsLWpITnZxQlJ6UHdDUUE6MQ Suggestion Box] (old)
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Now that the instruction part of 6.034 is over, please fill out the 6.034 section at <http://sixweb.mit.edu/>.  Your participation is very important to us as well as to students thinking of taking the subject.
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* [http://web.mit.edu/dxh/www/ Dylan's AI Demonstrations]
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== News ==
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Here's a page that explains the terminology for [[constraint propagation]].
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===June 2016===
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In the fall semester of 2016, 6.034 will meet Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 10 to 11
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Wednesday.  On many, but not all Fridays, you will learn about what is happening in the
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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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[[Lab 3]] is finally out. It will be due on Friday, October 17.
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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.
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6.034 is no longer offered in the spring term.
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[http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.034f/movies/waltz_high.avi Waltz program] in action as well, in a video that is much deteriorated, having started out on 16mm film, then becoming VCR, and finally an avi file with some sort of standard video encoding.
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Quiz one is graded. You can get it back from your recitation instructor on Thursday or Friday, or failing that, from your TA Monday and Tuesday, or failing that, from Professor Winston, 32-251, catch as catch can.  Answers will be discussed in recitation.  Breakpoints follow:
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Per grading policy, your quiz one grade will be compared with Part 1 of the final, and you will get the higher grade.  See [[Grading and collaboration policy]] for details.
 
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For 6.034 alums looking for related subjects, we recommend the following, as of
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Students in Monday tutorials this week should attend a Tuesday tutorial of their choice.
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====Subjects by Right Now Lecturers, Spring====
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| Gerald Sussman || Propagator networks || 6.945 || Large-scale symbolic systems
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| Ed Boyden || Enlarging brain tissue || 20.309 || Biological instrumentation and software
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| Julie Shah || Getting people on the same page || 16.35 || Real time systems and software
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| Pawan Sinha et al.|| The vision of the newly sighted || 9.012 || Cognitive science
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| Patrick Winston || Understanding stories || 6.803/6.833 || The Human Intelligence Enterprise
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Note that 6.803/6.833 is a lotteried subject, oversubscribed.  See
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[http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.803/index.html 6.803/6.833 home page].
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Start on it as soon as you are able. It's due next Wednesday, September 17, and includes a non-trivial programming task (to write a procedure for backward chaining).
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| Brian Williams || 6.834J/16.412J || Cognitive Robotics
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6.036 could be called Computational Statistics.  It is not about perception, cognition,
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| Robert Berwick || 6.863 || Natural Language and the Computer Representation of Knowledge
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| Brian Williams || 16.410J/16.413J || Principles of Autonomy and Decision Making
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| Gerald Sussman || 6.946 || Classical mechanics: a computational approach
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In the fall of 2008, the official language of 6.034 will be Python for a variety of reasons having little to do with the strengths and weaknesses of the language.    Relative to past years, homework will ramp up somewhat more gently to give Scheme speakers an opportunity to adapt.  We expect a weekend with any of the many Python books would be adequate preparation. See, for example, the [http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/books/285856/ref=pd_zg_hrsr_b_1_5_last Amazon list].
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====Subjects associated with the Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines====
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* In the middle is the O'Reilly book ''Learning Python''. MIT has a subscription to O'Reilly, so anyone with an MIT IP address can read the book [http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com/9780596513986/ online].
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[http://cbmm.mit.edu/education/courses Many subjects] are taught, Spring and Fall, by faculty associated
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[http://cbmm.mit.edu/ Center for Brains Minds and Machines].

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Contents

We are pleased to note ...

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

What they meant to say is that 6.034 has had outstanding TAs. Among them is head-TA Jessica Noss, the 2016 winner of the EECS Carlton E. Tucker Award for outstanding teaching as a graduate-student teaching assistant.

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:




News

June 2016

In the fall semester of 2016, 6.034 will meet Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 10 to 11 in 10-250. 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, 7 September 2016.

What should I take after 6.034?


For 6.034 alums looking for related subjects, we recommend the following, as of 31 January 2016. There may be additions through registration day.

Subjects by Right Now Lecturers, Spring

Instructor Right Now Talk Number Title
Gerald Sussman Propagator networks 6.945 Large-scale symbolic systems
Ed Boyden Enlarging brain tissue 20.309 Biological instrumentation and software
Julie Shah Getting people on the same page 16.35 Real time systems and software
Pawan Sinha et al. The vision of the newly sighted 9.012 Cognitive science
Patrick Winston Understanding stories 6.803/6.833 The Human Intelligence Enterprise

Note that 6.803/6.833 is a lotteried subject, oversubscribed. See 6.803/6.833 home page.

Other subjects of note, Spring

Instructor Number Title
Brian Williams 6.834J/16.412J Cognitive Robotics
Barzilay-Jaakkola-Kaelbling 6.036 Introduction to Machine Learning
Berwick and Bartel 6.049J Evolutionary Biology: Concepts, Models and Computation

6.036 could be called Computational Statistics. It is not about perception, cognition, or action, but it is a valuable subject that everyone should take.

Other subjects of note, Fall

Instructor Number Title
Robert Berwick 6.863 Natural Language and the Computer Representation of Knowledge
Brian Williams 16.410J/16.413J Principles of Autonomy and Decision Making
Gerald Sussman 6.946 Classical mechanics: a computational approach


Subjects associated with the Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines

Many subjects are taught, Spring and Fall, by faculty associated with the Center for Brains Minds and Machines.

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