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This is the site for 6.034 Artificial Intelligence, with Professor Patrick Winston.
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== '''Welcome to 6.034/6.844'''==
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* [http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.034f/Examinations/ Quiz archive]  ([[Index]])
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== News ==
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== '''Note: We are no longer using this site.  See [https://canvas.mit.edu MIT Canvas] for current class information.'''==
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=== Friday, 10 September ===
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==6.034==  
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6.034 introduces representations, methods, and architectures used to build applications and to account for human intelligence from a computational point of view. It covers problem solving and inference paradigms such as constrained search, constraint propagation, rule chaining, inheritance, and statistical inference. It also covers machine learning paradigms such as identification trees, neural nets, genetic algorithms, support-vector machines, and boosting.
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Lab 0 is available from the "Labs" link above.  It is Due Friday, September 17th.
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6.034 meets Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 10am to 11am.  The lectures, in which we introduce material and talk about the "big picture", usually will be on Monday and Wednesday.  On many Fridays, and the occasional Wednesday, 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 lecture topics.  The lectures, and most of the right-now talks, will be recorded and made available for later viewing.
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=== Thursday, 9 September ===
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Four examinations, aka quizzes, will cover material from the lectures.  Additional written assignments will cover material presented in lectures and/or the right-now talks.  Labs are programming assignmentsLinks to an external site., released approximately every 7 to 10 days, in which you'll practice your newly acquired skills.
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Although there are no regular recitations this week, there will be a mega-recitation in the usual 10 AM slot in 10-250.  Unlike most mega-recitations, which cover quiz problems, this one is a python review.
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Recitations will meet weekly for an hour on Friday and will provide you with a venue in which you can review lecture material, work practice problems, and have small-group discussions.  Students will choose their recitation times the first week of class.  All students taking this class for credit must sign up for a recitation; attendance during the term is strongly encouraged but not required.  Recitation meetings will not be recorded, but a recorded review of the week's recitation material will be available for students unable to attend a recitation.
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=== Wednesday, 8 September ===
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6.034 is no longer offered in the spring term.
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If you did not get a tutorial scheduling form, you can get one from a supply just outside Professor Winston's office, 32-151. Scheduling is proceeding, so return as soon as possible, to Professor Winston's office.
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We are pleased to note that Bloomberg has listed 6.034 as among [https://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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Lecture are Mondays and Wednesdays at 10 AM in 10-250. Mega-recitations occur on Fridays at 10 AM in 10-250, the same place and time slot that is occupied by lectures on Mondays and Wednesdays.
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==6.844 (Graduate Version)==
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6.844 was created in response to requests from grad students who wanted to take 6.034, but needed graduate level credit.
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Recitations: R1 (13-5101) or R2 (13-5101) or R3 (13-5101) F1 (24-407) or F2 (24-407) or F3 (24-407)
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It is a supplement to 6.034: You will take 6.034 as usual and do all of that work (lectures, labs, quizzes, etc.), and in addition attend the 6.844 session and do the work required there. That session will meet every Friday 11am-12pm virtually via Zoom.  The Zoom link for the class can be found on the 6.844 Canvas site [https://canvas.mit.edu/courses/4571 here]. The class will be recorded and available for later viewing.
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'''There will <b>not</b> be any regular recitations this week; they will begin next week.
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For each 6.844 session, students read an assigned paper or papers from the research literature, write up a one page response to a set of provided questions, and come  to class prepared to discuss answers to those questions.
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Accommodations will be made for students in different time zones.  To keep the class size manageable and to encourage active class participation, we do not allow listeners.
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For more information, visit the [[6.844 Info]] page or the [https://canvas.mit.edu/courses/4571 6.844 Canvas site].
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==== Times and places of recitations and tutorials ====
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Please fill out the [http://doodle.com/tptv9y2bu8qxt6hi Tutorial scheduling form]. You will learn which tutorial you are in by email.
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The official language of 6.034 is Python for a variety of reasons having little to do with the strengths and weaknesses of the language.  We expect a focused 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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* [http://goo.gl/forms/5Q6X53fNrE Suggestion Box]
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* [http://diveintopython.org Dive into Python] is a well-recommended book that is available online. It's written for experienced programmers who just don't know Python yet. It's meant to quickly take what you already know about other languages and explain how Python does them.
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* [[Calendar]] 
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* [https://ai6034.mit.edu/wiki/images/6.034_lectures_f20.pdf Lecture schedule] (Subject to change.)
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* [[Reference material]]
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* [http://piazza.com/mit/fall2020/6034 Piazza]
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* [[Demonstrations]]
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* [http://web.mit.edu/dxh/www/ Dylan's AI Demonstrations]
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* [[6.844 Info]]
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* At the other end of the spectrum, the text that was used in 6.00 has been expanded into one called ''Think Python''. It's [http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/ online]. It is targeted at people who have not programmed much or at all.
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== '''News''' ==
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* [[Announcements | Announcements]]
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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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===December 2019===
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====Monday, December 16:  Final exam info====
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We wish you well on the 6.034 final exam tomorrow:
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* '''Tuesday, Dec. 17, 1:30pm-4:30pm, at Johnson Track'''
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For those of you new to MIT, the Johnson Track is on the second floor of the Johnson Athletic Center (W34).  There will be signs and people directing you where to go.
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====Monday, December 16:  Another chance to get 6.034 T-Shirts!====
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The registrar has the grades and promises they will be on WEBSIS by the end of the day.
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There was sufficient interest in ordering more 6.034 t-shirts that we’ve opened up a second group order form. The shirts will be the same as in the last order: black with white letters, in two varieties---crew-neck ($11.21; YS-4XL) and V-neck ($12.52 ; XS-3XL).  There's a sizing chart on the order form; the shirts run a bit small.
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=== Thursday, December 17 ===
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As a (soon to be) 6.034 alum, you’re welcome to order as many shirts as you like. You can see the design and place your order directly through the 6.034 2019 Custom Ink group order form: https://www.customink.com/g/wqq0-00c3-4efh
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THE GROUP ORDER FORM WILL CLOSE ON SUNDAY, DECEMBER 22nd AT 11:59pm.
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We will coordinate shirt pickup during IAP and Spring Semester.
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<li>Final examinations have been examined, and you can examine yours in my office on or after Monday, December 21. By institute rule, you cannot take your final away from the vicinity.
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====Thursday, December 5:  End of term info====
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<li>Alas, you cannot get your grade any other way. By institute rules, we cannot give out grades by email or 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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* '''Grade calculator''': You can access the 6.034 grade calculator (so you can see what your final grade is right now) [http://web.mit.edu/6.034/www/sigmoid/ here].
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* '''Final exam survey''':  Please fill out [https://forms.gle/YZ5KcjYHD3UYij3X8  this Google form] if you plan on taking (some of) the final exam.  We'd like to get an estimate of the number of finals to print out (and save some trees).
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* '''Recitation''':  Recitation on Mon 12/9 and Tues 12/10 will be a Lightening Review of all the topics in the class, with some problem solving.
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* '''Bonus SRNs''':  The lectures from 12/2 through 12/11 will have bonus SRNs on the final. The points will be added into your total SRN score before dividing by 3, so they essentially act as extra credit points (see piazza post @590 for an example).
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* '''Class evaluation''':  Please help us make 6.034 even better by filling out the class evaluation survey available [https://registrar.mit.edu/classes-grades-evaluations/subject-evaluation here] until Monday, December 16, 9am.  What did you like? Not like?  What would you like to see kept? Changed?  etc.  For 6.844 students, please fill out the survey evaluating the 6.034 components of the class and include evaluation of the 6.844 components in the comments section.
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* '''Final exam date & time''': Tuesday 12/17, 1:30pm-4:30pm @ Johnson Track
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We will be returning Quiz 4 before and after class on Friday and during recitations next Monday and Tuesday. 
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Quiz 4 (covering Bayes and Boosting) will be held on Wednesday, December 4th at 10am. As usual, half of you will take the quiz in 10-250 and half in Walker, enabling less crowded conditions. Locations:
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[https://sixweb.mit.edu/student/evaluate/6.034-f2009 Underground guide].
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Listeners and nonregistered students who would like to take the quiz, please go to 10-250. 
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==== Monday, November 18: 6.034 T-Shirts! ====
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====Monday, November 11: Quiz 3 Pickup and Recitation 11/11 + 11/12====
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<span id="soft-cutoff-note"  Note about soft cutoffs/span>
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The cutoffs for these levels, though, are “soft”: The cutoffs are applied using a smooth stairstep function (in fact, a sigmoid) and as a result are gradual.  So being a few points below the cutoff won’t make a significant difference in the final calculation of your 6.034 grade, just as small point differences don’t reflect significant differences in understanding.  So if you are just a few points below one of the cutoffs, say for thorough understanding (5), you don’t need to worry about it.  See the [http://web.mit.edu/fnl/volume/204/winston.html  Faculty News Letter article] for more details about the cutoffs and the student-centered policies behind this grading scheme.
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====Monday, October 28: Quiz 3 Locations====
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Quiz 3 (covering neural networks and support vector machines) will be held on November 6 at 10am. You will be in the same location as you were in for Quiz 1.  Hence,
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====Thursday, October 10: Quiz 2 Locations====
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'''Quiz 2''' (covering constraint propagation, k-nearest neighbors, and identification trees) will be held on '''Wednesday, October 16''' at 10am.  Note: Quiz 2 will also have an SRN section. The topics covered can be found on the  6.034 Reference Material page.
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====Sunday, October 6: Lab 5====
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====Tuesday, October 1:  Final Exam====
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The 6.034 final exam will be Tuesday, December 17, 1:30pm-4:30pm, at the Johnson Track.
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Conflict exam times will be announced after drop date.
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===September 2019===
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====Sunday, September 29: Quiz 1 Thresholds====
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Congratulations on completing Quiz 1! Quizzes will be handed back during recitation this week (Monday and Tuesday). You must attend your assigned recitation to receive your quiz. (Check your assigned section on the [https://ai6034.mit.edu:444/recitations/ Recitations page].)
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* If you are a listener/non-registered student who took the quiz, you can pick yours up at Jennifer Madiedo's Office Hours (Tuesday 10am-12pm).
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=== Tuesday, October 20 ===
 
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The Quiz 2 tomorrow is in 10-250 and starts at 10am sharp. Open book, open notes, but no computers of any kind.
 
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It will cover Games and Constraint Satisfaction Problems.
 
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=== Sunday, October 12 ===
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====Sunday, September 29: Lab 4 Released====
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Due to there being no Tuesday schedule, there will be an extra tutorial on Tuesday.
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Lab 4 has been released under "labs" and is due Tuesday, 10/08 at 10pm.
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It will be from 8-9pm in 32-124.
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====Thursday, September 19: Quiz 1 Locations====
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=== Thursday, October 8 ===
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Because of the confluence of a Monday holiday and family weekend in the same week, the schedule next week is highly unusual.  As indicated on the calendar, there will be lectures on Tuesday and Friday. Also, there will be no megarecitation next week, because of insufficient accumulation of material to cover.
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'''Quiz 1''' (covering rule-based systems, search, and games) will be held on '''Wednesday, September 25''' at 10am. Half of you will take the quiz in 10-250 and half in Walker, enabling less crowded conditions. Locations:
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* '''Family name A-L: 10-250'''
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* '''Family name M-Z: Walker, 3rd floor'''
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Lab 3 is out (short but difficult):
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Listeners and nonregistered students who would like to take the quiz, please go to 10-250.
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  http://ai6034.mit.edu/fall09/index.php?title=Lab_3
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Resubmit lab 2 if you did not download a new tests.py on Saturday and resubmit with it already.  Older submissions are invalid, and you're likely to have a zero on the lab, which you can check at https://ai6034.mit.edu:444/fall09/tester/
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Note: For Quiz 2, you'll go to the other room (i.e., A-L will go to Walker, M-Z will go to 10-250).
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=== Thursday, October 1 ===
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====Thursday, September 19: Lab 3 Released and Extra OH====
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Lab 3 has been released under "Labs" and is due Friday, 9/27 at 10pm.
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Quizzes have been graded and will be returned in recitation, then tutorial, then only from PHW's office.
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Due to the cancelled OH tomorrow (for student holiday), we have decided to hold one-time temporary OH tonight from 5-9pm in 24-307.
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====Friday, September 13: Lab 2 Released ====
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Lab 2 has been released under "Labs" link and is due Friday, 9/20 at 10pm.
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====Sunday, September 8: Recitations assigned and Office Hours====
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Recitations have been assigned and can be viewed on the [[Recitations]] page (hint: use ctrl-f to search for your kerberos id)! Recitations begin on Monday 9/9 (tomorrow) and Tuesday 9/10. We'll see you there!
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Office hours have been announced and can be found on the [[Office Hours]] page. All office hours will temporarily be held in 32-258 until we get permanent rooms.
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====Thursday, September 5: Temporary Office Hours for Lab 0====
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We will be holding temporary office hours for lab 0 this Friday from 12-3pm and 4-5pm in the Genesis group area (in front of 32-258) in CSAIL. Permanent office hours with assigned rooms for the rest of the semester will be announced this weekend and will begin on Monday 9/9.
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How to get to the area:
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The Genesis group area is on the second floor of Stata on the Gates side, in front of 32-258.  Below is a visualization of the following instructions:
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1. Go to the Gates elevators in the Stata Center (building 32). These are the elevators next to the Cafe area.
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2. Go up the stairs by the elevators and through the door that says CSAIL on it.  You're now on the 2nd floor.
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3. Make two rights, and then go all the way down the hallway to get to the Genesis group area.
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[[Image:Directions.PNG]]
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====Wednesday, September 4: Recitation Sign-Up====
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Recitations will start next Monday 9/9 and Tuesday 9/10. Please fill out the [http://forms.gle/TvkeAZYQYzg853f86 recitation request form] by 12pm Friday (9/6) to indicate your recitation preferences. Recitation assignments will be sent out by Sunday afternoon.
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If you are not yet registered for the class, but plan to, please fill out the recitation request form anyway, and register for 6.034 or 6.844 as soon as possible.
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'''Note: Due to the small discussion-like nature of recitation, listeners and nonregistered students can not attend recitation.'''
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If you are not planning to register for 6.034, but will instead just attend lectures, please fill out the [http://forms.gle/kAzsUZak9eKaa7bJ8 nonregistered listener form] instead so we can keep you up to date with class announcements.
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===Summer 2019===
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==== 6.034 Lab 0 Released ====
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Many students interested in taking 6.034 for credit wonder if their Python skills are adequate for the 6.034 laboratory assignments, especially those who have not taken 6.0001 or equivalent. The answer is to be found in Lab 0, which in past years we have released at the beginning of the semester.
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You can look over Lab 0 now, before the semester begins, so that you can determine if you should review Python for a day or two before the semester begins. You can find Lab 0 [[Lab 0 | here]]. ''Note however that you cannot actually submit the lab until the semester begins.''
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Here are some helpful links if you need to brush up on your Python:
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* [http://docs.python.org/3/ Python documentation] (includes tutorials you can work through)
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* [http://web.mit.edu/6.149/www/materials.html Class site of 6.149] (Intro to Python IAP Class, 2015)
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* [http://developers.google.com/edu/python/ Google's free Python Class]
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* [http://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-python Codeacademy]
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 +
If you have any questions, email the 6.034 staff at 6.034-2019-staff@.
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 +
====Introducing 6.844, the graduate version of 6.034====
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 +
6.844 was created in response to requests from grad students who wanted to take 6.034, but needed graduate level credit.
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 +
It is a ''supplement'' to 6.034---you will take 6.034 as usual and do all of that work (lectures, labs, quizzes), and in addition attend the 6.844 session and do the work required there. That session will meet every Friday 11am-12pm in 32-155. Each week there will be a reading assignment focusing on one or more of the foundational, provocative, or intriguing papers from the research literature. You will be expected to do the reading, write up a one page response to a set of questions that will be provided with the reading, and come to class prepared to discuss your (and others') answers to those questions.
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The papers will help you learn how to read original research papers in the field and will focus on the science side of AI, addressing the larger scientific questions, rather than existing tools for building applications.
 +
 
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The class is heavy on interaction; you will not be able to just sit back and listen. To keep the class size manageable and to encourage active class participation, we do not allow listeners.
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More information can be found [http://ai6034.mit.edu/wiki/index.php?title=6.844_Info here].
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====About 6.034, Fall 2019 Edition====
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In the fall semester of 2019, 6.034 will meet Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 10am to 11am
 +
in 10-250 (second floor lecture hall in [http://ai6034.mit.edu/wiki/images/MIT-bldg10.png building 10]).  The lectures, in which we introduce material and talk about the "big picture", usually 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.
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 +
Examinations will cover material from the lectures as well as the right-now
 +
talks.  It will be extremely difficult to answer questions on the right-now material
 +
if you do not attend the right-now talks because the material is not yet in textbooks
 +
or, in many cases, published papers.
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 +
Recitations will meet weekly on Monday and Tuesday and provide you with a venue in which you can review lecture material, work practice problems, and have small-group discussions.  On the first day of class, we will make a link available to a form you will fill out that will enable us to assign you to a recitation.
 +
 
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Labs are programming assignments, released approximately every 7 to 10 days,  in which you'll practice your newly acquired skills.   
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 +
More details will emerge during the first lecture.
 +
 
 +
6.034 is no longer offered in the spring term.
 +
 
 +
'''We are pleased to note''' that Bloomberg has listed 6.034 as among [https://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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==== Friday, December 15: End-of-semester review sessions ====
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On Saturday (December 16) and Sunday (December 17), we will be having end-of-semester review sessions covering all 6.034 core topics. More details can be found [[Office_Hours|on the office hours page]].
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==== Sunday, December 10: Quiz 4 thresholds====
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We'll be returning Quiz 4 during recitations this week. Beginning Wednesday, you may pick up your quiz from Professor Winston's office ([http://web.mit.edu/6.034/www/32-251.jpg 32-251]) when he is in, or contact your TA to arrange a pick-up. The Quiz 4 thresholds are:
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| style="text-align:left;" | Problem 2: Boosting (50) || ≥ 46 || ≥ 41 || ≥ 35
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| &ge; 38
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=== September 29nd ===
 
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==== Friday, December 1: Quiz 4 Locations ====
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=== September 22nd ===
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Quiz 4 will take place on Wednesday, December 6. Locations will be the same as for Quiz 2. That is,
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* Family name A-M in Walker, 3rd floor
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* Family name N-Z in 10-250
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In response to the large class size, we're very fortunate to be able to
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The core topics are Bayesian inference and boosting (Adaboost). The spiritual/right now topics are listed as "4srn" on the [[Reference_material_and_playlist|Reference material page]].
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bring in Prof. Robert Berwick as a third recitation instructor, adding two
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sections.  For now we'll rely on you to rebalance yourselves.
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The eight recitations now offered are listed below.  The first two Thursday
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Thursdays 11am 36-156
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==== Monday, November 20: 6.034 2017 T-shirts announced ====
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Thursdays noon 36-156
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Thursdays  1pm 24-407
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Thursdays  2pm 24-407
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Thursdays  3pm 24-407
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=== September 15th ===
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By popular request, you can now order a limited-edition 6.034 2017 T-shirt, featuring our class motto as coined by Dr. Vikash Mansinghka, former 6.034 student and Head TA.
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This year's T-shirt will be available in sapphire blue, available at cost in both crew-neck ($8) and v-neck ($9). If you would like to buy one, [https://www.customink.com/g/fhs0-00b8-7wfk please order here] by '''Tuesday morning, November 28'''.
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A short conversation about [[Mutation]]
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==== Sunday, November 12: Quiz 3 thresholds====
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=== September 14th ===
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We hope you've had a pleasant long weekend!
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Note the addition of of a calendar, with locked down Quiz dates, along with a table of reference materials. These will be integrated, once we figure out how.
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We'll be returning Quiz 3 during recitations tomorrow and Tuesday. Beginning Wednesday, you may pick up your quiz from Professor Winston's office ([http://web.mit.edu/6.034/www/32-251.jpg 32-251]) when he is in, or contact your TA to arrange a pick-up. The Quiz 3 thresholds are:
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=== September 11th ===
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|-
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| ||Thorough understanding (5) ||Acceptable understanding (4)|| Some understanding (3) / Needs work
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|-
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| style="text-align:left;" | Problem 1: SVMs (50) || ≥ 45 || ≥ 39 || ≥ 33
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|-
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| style="text-align:left;" | Problem 2: Neural Networks (50) || ≥ 45 || ≥ 40 || ≥ 33
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|-
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| style="text-align:left;" | '''Total''' || '''≥ 90''' || '''≥ 79''' || '''≥ 66'''
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Our email list is incomplete and does not include, for example, late-registering students, so if
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you have not received email from us, please email the [[Staff]] and be sure
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to monitor our web page for announcements during the coming week.
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Professor Teller's subject, 6.142, has moved to an 11am start time to
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accommodate students who want to take both 6.142 and 6.034.
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* Family name A-M will be in 10-250
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The notes from today are available: [http://web.mit.edu/6.034/www/Mr1-basics.py] [http://web.mit.edu/6.034/www/Mr1-points.py] [http://web.mit.edu/6.034/www/Mr1-gotchas.py]
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===October 2018===
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=== September 10th ===
 
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Lab 0 is now available.
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==== Monday, October 22: Quiz 2 thresholds====
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We will be returning Quiz 2 during recitations on Monday and Tuesday. Beginning Wednesday, you may pick up your quiz from Professor Winston's office ([http://web.mit.edu/6.034/www/32-251.jpg 32-251]) when he is in, or contact your TA to arrange a pick-up. Thresholds are:
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{| cellpadding=2 border=1 cellspacing=2
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|-
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| ||Thorough understanding (5) ||Acceptable understanding (4)|| Some understanding (3) / Needs work
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|-
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| style="text-align:left;" | Problem 1: ID Trees (30) || ≥ 27 || ≥ 24 || ≥ 19
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|-
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| style="text-align:left;" | Problem 2: k-Nearest Neighbors (30) || ≥ 26 || ≥ 22 || ≥ 16
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|-
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| style="text-align:left;" | Problem 3: Constraint Propagation (40) || ≥ 33 || ≥ 26 || ≥ 20
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| style="text-align:left;" | '''Total''' || '''≥ 86''' || '''≥ 72''' || '''≥ 55'''
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Download Python '''2.6''' from [http://www.python.org/download python.org] -- do not download 3.1, as it will be incompatible with some of the software we hand out.  This download also includes the IDLE program, which we will demonstrate tomorrow.
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====Saturday, October 14: Quiz 2 Locations====
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=== September 9th ===
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Quiz 2 (covering constraint propagation, k-nearest neighbors, and identification trees) will be held on October 18 at 10am. If you were in Walker for quiz 1, you will be in 10-250 for quiz 2, and vice versa. Hence,
 +
* Family name A-M will be in '''Walker, 3rd floor'''
 +
* Family name N-Z will be in '''10-250'''
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[http://doodle.com/tptv9y2bu8qxt6hi Give us your tutorial availability] please.
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==== Sunday, October 1: Quiz 1 thresholds====
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Quiz 1 will be returned in recitations on Monday and Tuesday. Beginning Wednesday, you may pick up your quiz from Professor Winston's office ([http://web.mit.edu/6.034/www/32-251.jpg 32-251]) when he is in, or contact your TA to arrange a pick-up. Thresholds are:
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|-
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| ||Thorough understanding (5) ||Acceptable understanding (4)|| Some understanding (3) / Needs work
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|-
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| style="text-align:left;" | Problem 1: Search (35) || ≥ 32 || ≥ 27 || ≥ 22
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|-
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| style="text-align:left;" | Problem 2: Rules (35) || ≥ 31 || ≥ 27 || ≥ 21
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|-
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| style="text-align:left;" | Problem 3: Games (30) || ≥ 28 || ≥ 24 || ≥ 20
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|-
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| style="text-align:left;" | '''Total''' || '''≥ 91''' || '''≥ 78''' || '''≥ 63'''
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==== Wednesday, December 12====
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[[Media:6034.pdf | Today's slides]]
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==== Monday, December 10: Quiz 4 thresholds====
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We'll be returning Quiz 4 during recitations this week. Beginning Wednesday, contact your TA to arrange a pick-up. The Quiz 4 thresholds are:
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|-
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| ||Thorough understanding (5) ||Acceptable understanding (4)|| Some understanding (3) / Needs work
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|-
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| style="text-align:left;" | Problem 1: Boosting (56) || ≥ 50 || ≥ 46 || ≥ 39
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|-
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| style="text-align:left;" | Problem 2: Bayes (44) || ≥ 40 || ≥ 37 || ≥ 31
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|-
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| style="text-align:left;" | '''Total''' || '''≥ 90''' || '''≥ 83''' || '''≥ 70'''
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==== Friday, November 30: Quiz 4 Logistics and Review Session ====
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Quiz 4 will take place next Wednesday, December 5 during class time. Locations will be the same as for Quiz 2. In other words,
 +
*Family name A-M in Walker
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*Family name N-Z in 10-250.
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The first mega-recitation, on Friday, September 11th, will be a refresher on the Python programming language.
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The core topics are Bayesian inference and boosting (Adaboost). The spiritual/right now topics are listed as "4srn" on the Reference material page.  
 +
We will be hosting a review session on Monday December 3 (12/03/18) from 7:30-9:30pm in room 32-123 in which we will go over example problem and answer questions. Please note that TAs will not be able to stay past 9:30, so if you have questions about particular exams or labs please plan on attending office hours or post on Piazza.
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Contents

Welcome to 6.034/6.844

Note: We are no longer using this site. See MIT Canvas for current class information.

6.034

6.034 introduces representations, methods, and architectures used to build applications and to account for human intelligence from a computational point of view. It covers problem solving and inference paradigms such as constrained search, constraint propagation, rule chaining, inheritance, and statistical inference. It also covers machine learning paradigms such as identification trees, neural nets, genetic algorithms, support-vector machines, and boosting.

6.034 meets Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 10am to 11am. The lectures, in which we introduce material and talk about the "big picture", usually will be on Monday and Wednesday. On many Fridays, and the occasional Wednesday, 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 lecture topics. The lectures, and most of the right-now talks, will be recorded and made available for later viewing.

Four examinations, aka quizzes, will cover material from the lectures. Additional written assignments will cover material presented in lectures and/or the right-now talks. Labs are programming assignmentsLinks to an external site., released approximately every 7 to 10 days, in which you'll practice your newly acquired skills.

Recitations will meet weekly for an hour on Friday and will provide you with a venue in which you can review lecture material, work practice problems, and have small-group discussions. Students will choose their recitation times the first week of class. All students taking this class for credit must sign up for a recitation; attendance during the term is strongly encouraged but not required. Recitation meetings will not be recorded, but a recorded review of the week's recitation material will be available for students unable to attend a recitation.

6.034 is no longer offered in the spring term.

We are pleased to note that Bloomberg has listed 6.034 as among "Five of the Best Computer Science Classes in the U.S."

6.844 (Graduate Version)

6.844 was created in response to requests from grad students who wanted to take 6.034, but needed graduate level credit.

It is a supplement to 6.034: You will take 6.034 as usual and do all of that work (lectures, labs, quizzes, etc.), and in addition attend the 6.844 session and do the work required there. That session will meet every Friday 11am-12pm virtually via Zoom. The Zoom link for the class can be found on the 6.844 Canvas site here. The class will be recorded and available for later viewing.

For each 6.844 session, students read an assigned paper or papers from the research literature, write up a one page response to a set of provided questions, and come to class prepared to discuss answers to those questions.

Accommodations will be made for students in different time zones. To keep the class size manageable and to encourage active class participation, we do not allow listeners.

For more information, visit the 6.844 Info page or the 6.844 Canvas site.


Logistical stuff


Reference stuff

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