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This is the site for 6.034 Artificial Intelligence, Fall 2012, with Professor Patrick Winston.
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== '''Welcome to 6.034/6.844'''==
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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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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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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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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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6.034 is no longer offered in the spring term.
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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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==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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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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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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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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In the fall semester of 2012, 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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====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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====Monday, December 16:  Another chance to get 6.034 T-Shirts!====
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More details will emerge during the first lecture on Wednesday, September 5.
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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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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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====Thursday, December 5:  End of term info====
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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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Registrar promises to schedule final by 5:00 PM on September 20, 2012.
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* '''Office Hours''':  All regularly scheduled office hours from Thurs 12/5 to Wednesday 12/11 are cancelled. There will be OH Thurs 12/12-Mon 12/16 for the final exam (see schedule on OH page).
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* '''Final exam review sessions''':  We will have some final review sessions, split up by quiz topics, between Thurs 12/12 and Sat 12/14 (see schedule on OH page).
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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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* '''Final class''':  What we learned, what classes to take post-6.034, the final exam, t-shirt distribution, and goodbye!
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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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* '''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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* Notes that have been used in 6.00 has been expanded into a book 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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* Another choice 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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We are considering substantial changes in the organization of the subject for this coming semester.  In particular, we are considering alternatives to traditional recitation sections and our 6.034-specific "mega recitations."  We will announce our conclusions here soon.
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====Sunday, December 1: Quiz 4 Locations====
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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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Note:  The room assignments are the same as those for Quiz 2.
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As always the quiz is open book, open notes, open just about everything, including a calculator, but no computers or electronic devices. This quiz will be the final quiz of the semester before the final!
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6.945 Large-scale Symbolic Systems, definitely cancelled, as Professor Sussman has been called to service in MITx.
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6.868J The Society of Mind, waiting for information on status, as Professor Minsky taught subject already in the fall, an anomaly.
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==== Monday, November 18: 6.034 T-Shirts! ====
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We have exciting news:  6.034 T-shirts are ready to be ordered! This year the shirts are black with white letters and come in two varieties---crew neck ($8; YS-4XL) and V-neck ($9.30; XS-3XL).  There's a sizing chart on the order form.
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9.520 [http://www.mit.edu/%7E9.520/ Statistical Learning theory], new subject, Professor Poggio et al., not for the mathematically timidPoggio's interests are centered on understanding biological intelligence, particularly vision.
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Please use the following link to place your order: https://www.customink.com/g/wqq0-00c2-423m.   
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The order form will close at '''11:59pm on Sunday November 24''', so please order as soon as possible!  We plan on handing out the shirts the last week of classes.
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6.xxx aka 6.803/6.833, [http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.803/index.html The Human Intelligence Enterprise], PHW, lotteried, current P approximately 0.5.  Two sections, both taught by PHW, first meeting and lottery on Wednesday, 8 February, contrary to incorrect listing somewhere that the subject will meet on Monday, 6, February.
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====Monday, November 11: Quiz 3 Pickup and Recitation 11/11 + 11/12====
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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 gradualSo 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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====Sunday, September 29: Quiz 1 Thresholds====
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* If you are not signed up for a recitation do so ASAP because in recitation is where we will be handing back quizzes for the entirety of the term.
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==== 13 October 2011 ====
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====Thursday, September 19: Quiz 1 Locations====
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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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Listeners and nonregistered students who would like to take the quiz, please go to 10-250.
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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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[http://ai6034.mit.edu/fall11/index.php?title=Lab_3 Lab 3] on Games search is released.  It is due the evening of Friday, October 14th at midnight.
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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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====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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'''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
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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
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talks.  It will be extremely difficult to answer questions on the right-now material
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if you do not attend the right-now talks because the material is not yet in textbooks
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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.
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6.034 is no longer offered in the spring term.
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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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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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==== Friday, December 1: Quiz 4 Locations ====
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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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[[Lab 2]] is released.
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We hope you've had a pleasant long weekend!
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Tanya will hold office hours on Tuesdays from 6pm - 9pm in 34-302.  Feel free to stop by with any questions, especially about the labs or old quiz problems.
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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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| style="text-align:left;" | Problem 3: Constraint Propagation (40) || ≥ 33 || ≥ 26 || ≥ 20
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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,
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* Family name A-M will be in '''Walker, 3rd floor'''
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* Family name N-Z will be in '''10-250'''
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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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If you are on our mailing list, you have received a message with this content.  Otherwise, read on.
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| style="text-align:left;" | Problem 1: Search (35) || ≥ 32 || ≥ 27 || ≥ 22
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| style="text-align:left;" | Problem 3: Games (30) || ≥ 28 || ≥ 24 || ≥ 20
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==== Wednesday, December 12====
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If you are a special student, from Harvard, or in some other special category, send a message to Peter Brin (pebrin at mit dot edu) asking him to put you on our mailing list. If you are a MIT student, you will get on our list automatically the day you add the subject.
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[[Media:6034.pdf | Today's slides]]
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==== Monday, December 10: Quiz 4 thresholds====
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{| cellpadding=2 border=1 cellspacing=2
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| ||Thorough understanding (5) ||Acceptable understanding (4)|| Some understanding (3) / Needs work
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| style="text-align:left;" | Problem 1: Boosting (56) || ≥ 50 || ≥ 46 || ≥ 39
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| style="text-align:left;" | Problem 2: Bayes (44) || ≥ 40 || ≥ 37 || ≥ 31
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| style="text-align:left;" | '''Total''' || '''≥ 90''' || '''≥ 83''' || '''≥ 70'''
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==== 9 September 2011 ====
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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,
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*Family name A-M in Walker
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*Family name N-Z in 10-250.
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Clarification: Lectures are on Monday and Wednesday 10-11. Megarecitation is on Friday, 10-11, also in 10-250.  Per message below, no megarecitation during first week.
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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.


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