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== '''Welcome to the 2014 Edition of 6.034'''==
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== '''Welcome to the 2017 Edition of 6.034'''==
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===Logistical stuff:===
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* [[Frequently Asked Questions | Frequently asked questions]]
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* [http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.034f/Examinations/ Quiz archive]
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== News ==
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=== 7 December 2014 ===
 
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====Special 2017 opportunity====
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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:
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The 2017 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. 
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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.
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In the fall semester of 2014, 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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'''We are pleased to note''' that Bloomberg has listed 6.034 as among [http://www.csail.mit.edu/node/2500  "Five of the Best Computer Science Classes in the U.S."]
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What they meant to say is that 6.034 has had outstanding TAs.

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Contents

Welcome to the 2017 Edition of 6.034

Logistical stuff:

Reference stuff:

News

Summer 2017

Special 2017 opportunity

The 2017 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.

Day and times taught will be posted here as soon as known.

Mechanism for expressing interest will be posted here as soon as known.

About 6.034, Fall 2017 Edition

In the fall semester of 2017, 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.

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.

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