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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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===New opportunity in 2016===
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=== Monday, December 15 ===
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The 2016 edition of 6.034 will offer an optional 3-unit add-on set of lectures given by Professor Robert C. Berwick. This addition will supplement the main lectures and recitations because it will focus on the science side of 6.034, addressing long-standing scientific questions and biological intelligence, rather than existing tools for building applications.  Evolution and  human language will be emphasized.  Before registration day, we will explain here exactly when and where the supplement will meet and how you can indicate your interest.
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===We are pleased to note ...===
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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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<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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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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=== Wednesday, December 10 ===
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===Road map:===
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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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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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Quizzes to be returned in recitation, then tutorial, the PHW's office.
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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://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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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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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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== '''What should I take after 6.034?'''==
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31 January 2016.  There may be additions through registration day.
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| Pawan Sinha et al.|| The vision of the newly sighted || 9.012 || Cognitive science
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| Brian Williams || 6.834J/16.412J || Cognitive Robotics
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[http://cbmm.mit.edu/education/courses Many subjects] are taught, Spring and Fall, by faculty associated
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Contents

New opportunity in 2016

The 2016 edition of 6.034 will offer an optional 3-unit add-on set of lectures given by Professor Robert C. Berwick. This addition will supplement the main lectures and recitations because it will focus on the science side of 6.034, addressing long-standing scientific questions and biological intelligence, rather than existing tools for building applications. Evolution and human language will be emphasized. Before registration day, we will explain here exactly when and where the supplement will meet and how you can indicate your interest.

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 of note, Fall

Instructor Number Title
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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