Schedule

This schedule for CS 6360 in Spring 2019 includes a week-to-week summary of in-class activities, and pre-class and post-class responsibilities. These requirements will unfold over the semester. I will give you at least one week notice on readings that must be done the following week.

WEEK 1: Introduction

Class meeting (Monday, January 7 ):

  • Introductions
  • Course Overview
  • Discuss Assignment A-w3 (Due Thursday, January 24 at 11:59 pm)

To Do before January 9 class:

Class meeting (Wednesday, January 9 ):

  • Discuss material

To Do after January 9 class:

  • Review 18.1 through 18.3 of Russell and Norvig as needed
  • Read Chapter 19 of Russell and Norvig

WEEK 2:

To Do before January 14 class:

  • Review 18.1 through 18.3 of Russell and Norvig as needed (reminder)
  • Read Chapter 19 of Russell and Norvig (reminder)

Class meeting (Jan 14):

  • Quiz
  • Discuss readings (notes)

To Do before Jan 16 class:

  • Identify and read one or more papers on using prior Knowledge in Learning and be prepared to summarize in class

Class meeting (Jan 16):

  • Summarize student identified papers
  • How could we possibly combine explanation-based learning and deep learning? (Towell, et al, 1990) Look for others
  • Discuss Assignment A-w4 (Due Thursday, January 31 by 11:59 PM)

To Do after Jan 16 class:

  • Read Chapter 22 of Russell and Norvig

WEEK 3:

To Do BEFORE January 21 class:

NO Class meeting (January 21):

To Do BEFORE January 23 class:

  • Read Chapter 22 of Russell and Norvig (reminder)

Class meeting (January 23):

  • Discuss Chapter 22

To Do after Jan 23 class:

  • Submit Assignment A-w3 to Brightspace by Thursday January 24 at 11:59 pm
  • Read Chapter 10 of Russell and Norvig

WEEK 4:

To Do BEFORE January 28 class:

  • Read Chapter 10 of Russell and Norvig (reminder)

Class meeting (January 28):

To Do BEFORE January 30 class:

Class meeting (January 30):

To Do after January 30 class:

WEEK 5:

To Do BEFORE February 4 class:

  • See “For Week 5” immediately above (reminder)

In Class (February 4):

To Do BEFORE February 6 class:

In Class (February 6):

  • Summarize student identified papers

To Do after February 6 class:

WEEK 6:

To Do BEFORE February 11 class:

  • Do “For Week 6” above

In Class (February 11):

  • Quiz
  • Discuss Readings (notes)

To Do BEFORE February 13 class:

In Class (February 13):

  • Discuss Project and student summaries

To Do after February 13 class:

  • Submit A-w6 by Wednesday, February 13 at 11:59 pm
  • For week 7

WEEK 7:

To Do BEFORE Feb 18:

  • See “For Week 7” above

In Class (February 18):

To Do BEFORE Feb 20:

In Class (February 20):

  • Discuss student paper summaries

To Do after February 20 class:

  • Submit A-w7 (problem 20.10 from Russell and Norvig) by Friday, February 22 at 11:59 pm
  • Submit PA-w8 by Monday February 25 at 11:59 pm
  • For week 8
    • Read Chapter 16 Continue with Chapter 15 of Russell and Norvig

WEEK 8:

To Do BEFORE February 25 class:

In Class (February 25):

To Do BEFORE February 27:

  • Submit PA-w8 by Monday February 25 at 11:59 pm
  • Submit two project ideas to Brightspace (100 words max) by Tuesday February 26 at 11:59 pm
  • Identify and read one or more papers on making simple decisions and be prepared to summarize in class

In Class (February 27):

  • Discuss student papers
  • Discuss individual project ideas

To Do after February 27 class:

WEEK 9 Spring break (March 2 – March 10 )

WEEK 10:

To Do BEFORE March 11:

In Class (March 11):

  • Discuss individual projects

To Do BEFORE March 13 class:

In Class (March 13):

To Do after March 13 class:

  • Submit PA-w10 by Thursday March 14 and 11:59 pm
  • Project Meetings Friday Morning
  • For week 11
    • Work on Individual Projects

WEEK 11: Middle-of-the term synthesis

  • Guest Speaker:
    • Ted Chiang

To Do BEFORE March 18:

  • Work on individual projects

In Class (March 18):

  • Individual project update (required for those who did not do update Friday of last week)

To Do BEFORE March 20:

In Class (March 20):

  • Clustering Project Presentations (see this paper for combining continuous and nominal attributes)
  • Reminder about Educational video and discuss ideas (Due Week 13)

To Do after March 20 class:

  • Project Meetings Friday Morning (required if no updates last Friday or Monday)
  • For week 12
    • Read Chapter 17, through 17.4, of Russell and Norvig

WEEK 12:

To Do BEFORE March 25:

  • Do “For week 12” above

In Class (March 25):

  • Quiz (see Brightspace Q-w12, under Assignments)
  • Watch the UC Berkeley Lectures on Markov Decision Processes 1 (including Value Iteration) and Markov Decision Processes 2 (including Policy Iteration) and conceptually connect to Chapter 17 through 17.4
    • Most other videos in the series are from Introductory AI at Vanderbilt, including Expectimax, and are a good source for review in any case (because they presume the Russell and Norvig textbook for the most part)

To Do BEFORE March 27:

In Class (March 27):

  • Project Updates
  • Discuss Student identified papers

To Do after March 27 class:

  • Project Meetings Friday Morning (optional)
  • Release Take Home Synthesis Exam
  • For week 13
    • Read 17.5 on Game Theory

WEEK 13:

To Do BEFORE April 1 class:

  • Do “For Week 13” above

In Class (April 1):

  • Quiz
  • Work on Educational video and final project (consult by Zoom)

To Do BEFORE April 3 class:

In Class (April 3):

To Do after April 3 class:

  • For Week 14
    • Read 17.6 on Mechanism Design
  • Educational video due Friday April 5 at 11:59 PM

WEEK 14:

To Do BEFORE April 8:

  • Do “For Week 14” above

In Class (April 8):

  • Discuss Mechanism Design

To Do BEFORE April 10:

In Class (April 10):

  • Discuss student identified papers

To Do After April 10 Class:

WEEK 15: Final Projects

To Do BEFORE April 15 class:

In Class (April 15):

 

To Do BEFORE April 17 class

In Class (April 17)

WEEK 16: Final Projects

In Class (April 22)

  • Final Project Presentations — 8 minute presentation + 4 min questions each
  • Submit Writeup by 11:59 pm on Monday, April 22

Classes End (Monday, April 22)

Reading Day (Tuesday, April 23, 2018)

Douglas H. Fisher (Computer Science; Computer Engineering)

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