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Topics and Playlist 2012
Assignment of material to quizzes is tentative, but final assignment will be announced well before each quiz.
srn in an assignment means the material will be in the "spiritual" and "right-now" part of the quiz. See Grading and collaboration policy.
September | Day | Topic | Quiz # | Playlist |
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4 | Wed | What it's all about | Start me up, Stones | |
27 | Fri | - | - | - |
9 | Mon | Goal trees and problem solving | 1 | This could be the last time, Stones |
11 | Wed | Rule-based expert systems (pp.53-60) | 1 | Engineer's Song, Chorallaries |
13 | Fri | Lightning review: Basic search | - | Searchin', Beatles |
16 | Mon | Optimal search | 1 | Route 66, Stones |
18 | Wed | Games | 1 | It's Only Rock and Roll, Stones |
20 | Mon | Holiday: student | - | |
23 | Mon | Constraints in interpretation | 2srn | I Can't Get No Satisfaction, Stones |
25 | Wed | Quiz 1 | - | - |
27 | Fri | - | - | - |
30 | Mon | Constraints in resource allocation | 2 | Paint it Black, Stones |
October | Day | Topic | Quiz # | Playlist |
2 | Wed | Constraints in recognition | 2srn | The First Time I Saw your Face, Flack |
4 | Fri | Gerald J. Sussman: Propagator systems | 2srn | - |
7 | Mon | Nearest neighbor learning /Sleep | 2 | ABC song, Ray Charles et al. |
9 | Wed | Identification tree learning | 2 | Romanian national anthem, Desteapta-te române! |
11 | Fri | Mathew Wilson: What rats think about | 2srn | - |
14 | Mon | Holiday: Columbus day | - | |
16 | Wed | Neural net learning | 3 | 19th Nervous Breakdown, Stones |
18 | Fri | Genetic algorithms | 3srn | Let's spend the night together, Stones |
21 | Mon | Learning in sparse spaces | 3srn | You talk too much, Peas |
23 | Wed | Shimon Ullman: Vision | 2srn | - |
25 | Fri | Quiz 2 | - | - |
28 | Mon | Support-vector machines, SVM (and Boosting) Notes | 3 | Get a little help from my friends, Beatles |
30 | Wed | Edward Boyden: Real neural nets | 3srn | - |
November | Day | Topic | Quiz # | Playlist |
1 | Fri | Learning from near misses | 3srn | Shippin up to Boston, Dropkick Murphys |
4 | Mon | Boosting (Winston and Ortiz notes), Boosting (Shapiri paper) | 4 | Workin' together, Ike and Tina Turner |
6 | Wed | Representation | 3srn | Selections from the Black Watch, aka The Ladies from Hell |
8 | Fri | Boris Katz: Watson, Siri, and understanding English | 3srn | - |
11 | Mon | Holiday: Veterans day | - | |
13 | Wed | Architecture: GPS, SOAR, Subsumption, Society of Mind | 4srn | Thus spake Zarathustra, Strauss |
15 | Fri | Quiz 3 | - | - |
18 | Mon | Lightning review: Probability | 4 | |
20 | Wed | Probabilistic inference | 4 | Tumbling Dice, Stones |
22 | Fri | Vikash Mansinghka: Statistical systems | 4srn | |
25 | Mon | Pawan Sinha: Vision restored | 4srn | - |
27 | Wed | The AI Business | - | Money, money, ABBA |
30 | Fri | Holiday: Thanksgiving | - | - |
December | Day | Topic | Quiz # | Playlist |
2 | Mon | Five Hypotheses: more than you want to know | 4srn | Ode to Joy, Ninth Symphony, Beethoven |
4 | Wed | To be determined | 4srn | - |
6 | Fri | Quiz 4 | - | - |
4 | Mon | To be determined | - | - |
11 | Wed | The final, the future, what to take next, Cross-modal clustering | - | Don't stop, Stones |