Machine Learning

Instructor: Dana H. Ballard

• Office Hours: Friday 3-4pm or by appointment
• Office: CSA 1.132
• Extension: 1-4950
• e-mail: dana@cs.utexas.edu

• Office Hours: W 1-2pm
  
• Office: ENS 31NQ
• e-mail: impjdi@cs.utexas.edu

• Office Hours: T 1-2pm, TH 3:30-4:30pm
  
• Office: ENS 31NQ
• e-mail: robert@cs.utexas.edu

Overview

Course Credit:

Credit will be based on ten assignments (75%), a midterm (10%), and a final (15%). The assignments will generally be due Friday, midnight of every week. Exceptions will be made on a per/assignment basis. Most assignments will require computer programming in Matlab.

Late Policy:

1 day: -15%
2 days: -30%
3 days: -50%
4 days: No credit
If extenuating circumstances will make it difficult for you to complete a project on time, contact the TA to work things out.

Academic dishonesty:

Students caught plagiarizing will fail the course. On some projects, we will use MOSS to analyze code. Avoid plagiarism by carefully citing all your sources. If you use a specific short code snippet found on a web-page, mention that fact in a comment. If someone else told you how to solve a tricky part of an assignment, give them credit too. Do not copy code from other students. However, if you did and cited them for it, I suppose that you would not fail for plagiarism; you simply would not get credit for the assignment. Even so, don't do it.

Homework submission:

You will submit homework using the turnin program available on CS lab machines. If you don't have a CS account, Get One. Instructions are available by typing man turnin. Essentially, you will type "turnin --submit impjdi hw# projectFile.m report.pdf" where '#' is the number of the homework you are submitting and projectFile.m is your code and report.pdf is your report. We generally prefer that you not compress or tar the files since that adds another step in the already annoying process of grading.
You can check your submission by making a new directory and typing "turnin --verify impjdi hw#". This will copy back to you the files that you have submitted. This way, you can make sure that everything is in order (and you did not accidentally submit a teacher-provided file instead of the file with your changes).