Class Schedule

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Date Topic Assignment
Aug 30Intro to Neural Nets
Sep 06Brain Organization
Neurons and Synapses
Sep 08Biological Modeling: The Visual Cortex Homework 1 (Self-Organizing Maps) assigned.
  3-6pmCompetitive Learning, Self-Organizing Maps
  WEL 3.260
Sep 13Perceptrons; Backpropagation Homework 2 (Backpropagation) assigned.
Extensions of Backpropagation
Sep 20Rescheduled (Sep 08) Homework 1 (Self-Organizing Maps) due.
Sep 27Rescheduled (Project talks) Homework 2 (Backpropagation) due.
Oct 04Rescheduled (Oct 6th)
Oct 06 Reinforcement Learning Personal ads due.
  3-6pmNeuro-Evolution
  WEL 3.260
Oct 11Subsymbolic Artificial Intelligence Topic talk proposals due.
Associative Memory
Oct 18Cascade Correlation, Radial Basis Functions Topic talks scheduled.
Game Playing
Oct 25ExamPractice questions
Nov 01Hrishikesh and Sudipta: Extensions to Q-learning
Erkin and Todd: Combining evolution and learning
Nov 08Jacob and Julian: Indirect encoding
Adam and Madhavi: Evolutionary design
Nov 15Alan and Charles: Game Playing Project proposals due.
Manish, Sari, Tekin: Compartmental models Project talks scheduled.
Nov 22No Class.
Nov 29Aditya and Harivardan: Data mining
Aravind and Sudheendra: Document classification
Dec 06Austin, Chi-Cheng and George: Signal Processing
Kunal and Shounak: Consciousness
Dec 13 Project talks 1:
  4pm-7pm Sudipta and Hrishikesh: Extensions to Q-routing
  TAY 2.106Erkin and Todd: NEAT+TD in Game Playing
Alan and Charles: Opponent modeling in game playing
Jacob: Evolution in multi-player games
Julian: Learning Snake-in-a-box
Adam: Prolonged evolution in GP
Madhavi: Evolution of test programs
Dec 14 Project talks 2:
  10:30am-1pm Aravind and Sudheendra: Spam generation and detection
  TAY 2.106Aditya and Harivardan: Learning features for ischemia classification
Sari, Manish, Tekin: Modeling neuron behavior
Austin: Learning auditory models
Chi-Cheng and George: Biological pattern recognition
Kunal and Shounak: Learning abstractions
Dec 18 9amProject papers due.


risto@cs.utexas.edu
Sat Nov 25 02:18:37 CST 2006