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This is the site for 6.034 Artificial Intelligence, with Professor Patrick Winston.

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December 5, 2007

Here's the grading breakdown to help you judge how you did on Q4; they will be available Thursday, December 6-7, in recitations.

Problem Max. points Thorough understanding Acceptable understanding Some understanding
1 (SVM) 50 ≥ 43 ≥ 35 < 35
2 (Boosting) 50 ≥ 45 ≥ 35 < 35
Total 100 ≥ 88 ≥ 70 < 70

November 21, 2007

Problem set 5, the last problem set in 6.034, is released. It is due on Friday, November 30.

November 15, 2007

Here's the grading breakdown to help you judge how you did on Q3:

Problem Max. points Thorough understanding Acceptable understanding Some understanding
1 (Nearest neighbors and identification trees) 50 ≥ 42 ≥ 36 < 36
2 (Neural nets) 50 ≥ 44 ≥ 40 < 40
Total 100 ≥ 86 ≥ 76 < 76

See the Grading and collaboration policy for further explanation.

November 7, 2007

You can now look at the solutions to all problem sets that have been completed so far.

October 31, 2007

Problem set 4 has been released. It is due on Wednesday, November 7.

Problem set 3 has finally been graded for everyone who submitted it on time. Now, onto the late submissions. In the interest of time, we'll look for which late submissions were actually different and grade only those, so most people will not see a "ps3-late" grade as usual.

The PSet 3 Tournament is over! Congratulations to the winners:

  • First place: Maciej Pacula
  • Second place: Yuran Lu
  • Third place: Andreas Weibel

See the tournament page for more details, including how the finalists' heuristics worked.

October 26, 2007

The tournament has been completed through round 4, and the transcripts of all games that have been played so far are now posted. There are now 6 competitors remaining: anweibel, mattlong, yuranlu, and mpacula are undefeated, and martynaj and agorlin have one loss each.

There is no mega-recitation this week.

October 24, 2007

You can pick up your quiz in your recitation, Thursday or Friday.

Here's the grading breakdown to help you judge how you did:

Problem Max. points Thorough understanding Acceptable understanding Some understanding
1 (Games) 50 ≥ 43 ≥ 35 < 35
2 (Constraints) 50 ≥ 44 ≥ 39 < 39
Total 100 ≥ 87 ≥ 74 < 74

See the Grading and collaboration policy for further explanation.

October 23, 2007

Problem set 3 is inherently difficult to grade. Please be patient.

The tournament, on the other hand, is going more smoothly. The results of the first two rounds are posted. It's a double-elimination tournament with 51 entries, and so far it has been narrowed down to 24.

October 13, 2007

Lectures for October 15, 17, and 22 have been left-shifted.

October 11, 2007

Problem set 3 is out, and is due on Wednesday, October 17. Let the games begin!

October 2, 2007

Lectures for October 3, 10, and 15 have been left-shifted, so as to mesh better with the Columbus Day holiday. The solutions to quiz 1 have been posted.

September 30, 2007

You can pick up your quiz in tutorial, Monday or Tuesday.

Here's the grading breakdown to help you judge how you did:

Problem Max. points Thorough understanding Acceptable understanding Some understanding
1 (Rules) 50 ≥ 42 ≥ 34 < 34
2 (Search) 50 ≥ 42 ≥ 34 < 34
Total 100 ≥ 84 ≥ 68 < 68

See the Grading and collaboration policy for further explanation.


September 24, 2007

Problem set 2, which is about search, is released. It's due October 3rd, but you may find that looking at it now helps you prepare for Quiz 1.

September 21, 2007

Final date has been determined by the registrar: Tuesday, December 18, 9:00AM - 12:00NOON

September 20, 2007

Holiday

There is no class on Monday, September 24. All students with Monday tutorials are encouraged to find a Tuesday tutorial they can attend for quiz review.

Problem set 1 grades

Problem set 1 has been graded. To see your grades, you can look in /mit/6.034/grader/ps1/(your username) on Athena, or (in most cases) you can run /mit/6.034/bin/show-grades. We're still trying to figure out why this doesn't work for some people.

E-mail 6.034-tas@mit.edu if you think your grade is incorrect. If you messed up, not the grader, you can re-submit your code for the late deadline this Friday.

September 13, 2007

Problem set 1 is released. Note that this problem set includes a new tester that requires DrScheme version 370 or later.

September 12, 2007

If religious holidays prevent you from attending classes, and you want to be filled in on what those classes cover, ask your TA or recitation instructor.

September 5, 2007

Some notes about the structure of 6.034:

Quizzes and evaluations

There will be 4 in-class quizzes.

The final will be organized into parts corresponding to the quizzes. If you have a bad day on one of the quiz days, you can make up for it on the final, as we propose to give you the higher of the two grades.

All quizzes and the final are open book, open notes, open problem sets and solutions, open everything, except for computers.

Lecture, Tutorial, and recitation times

Lectures are on Mondays and Wednesdays, tutorials on Mondays and Tuesdays, and recitations on Thursdays and Fridays. In addition, there is a "megarecitation" at the same time and place as the lectures, but on Fridays, and not every week, as indicated on the calendar. In particular, there is no megarecitation during the first week of class.

Roughly, the purpose of each element is as follows:

Element Purpose
Lectures: To introduce most of the material and provide the big picture
Tutorials: To provide help with the homework and assess understanding
Mega recitation: To demonstrate how to work problems of the kind that tend to show up on the quizzes
Regular recitations To introduce some of the material, answer questions, provide additional

perspective, and be a venue small enough for discussion

Times and places of recitations and tutorials

If you have not yet filled out recitation and tutorial scheduling forms, please pick up spare copies and leave them at 32-251 as soon as possible. You will learn which tutorial and recitation you are in by email.

There will be no tutorials, regular recitations, or megarecitation during the first week of class, the week of September 3.

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