| Date | Topic | Assignment |
| Aug 30 | Intro to Neural Nets | |
| Sep 06 | Brain Organization | |
| Neurons and Synapses | ||
| Sep 08 | Biological Modeling: The Visual Cortex | Homework 1 (Self-Organizing Maps) assigned. |
| 3-6pm | Competitive Learning, Self-Organizing Maps | |
| WEL 3.260 | ||
| Sep 13 | Perceptrons; Backpropagation | Homework 2 (Backpropagation) assigned. |
| Extensions of Backpropagation | ||
| Sep 20 | Rescheduled (Sep 08) | Homework 1 (Self-Organizing Maps) due. |
| Sep 27 | Rescheduled (Project talks) | Homework 2 (Backpropagation) due. |
| Oct 04 | Rescheduled (Oct 6th) | |
| Oct 06 | Reinforcement Learning | Personal ads due. |
| 3-6pm | Neuro-Evolution | |
| WEL 3.260 | ||
| Oct 11 | Subsymbolic Artificial Intelligence | Topic talk proposals due. |
| Associative Memory | ||
| Oct 18 | Cascade Correlation, Radial Basis Functions | Topic talks scheduled. |
| Game Playing | ||
| Oct 25 | Exam | Practice questions |
| Nov 01 | Hrishikesh and Sudipta: Extensions to Q-learning | |
| Erkin and Todd: Combining evolution and learning | ||
| Nov 08 | Jacob and Julian: Indirect encoding | |
| Adam and Madhavi: Evolutionary design | ||
| Nov 15 | Alan and Charles: Game Playing | Project proposals due. |
| Manish, Sari, Tekin: Compartmental models | Project talks scheduled. | |
| Nov 22 | No Class. | |
| Nov 29 | Aditya and Harivardan: Data mining | |
| Aravind and Sudheendra: Document classification | ||
| Dec 06 | Austin, 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 2.106 | Erkin 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 2.106 | Aditya 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 9am | Project papers due. | |