CSCI 1950-F: Introduction to Machine Learning, Spring 2011
Brown University Department of Computer Science
- Course Information
- See the syllabus, and the calendar for details on readings, lectures, and recitations.
- Textbook
- The primary course textbook is Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective, in preparation by Prof. Kevin Murphy. Printed copies are available as a reader from the Metcalf Copy Center.
- Lectures
- Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1:00-2:20pm, CIT room 368.
- Recitations
- Thursdays from 5:30-6:30pm, CIT room 219.
- Instructor
- Professor Erik Sudderth, office hours Mondays from 2:00-4:00pm, CIT room 509.
- Graduate Teaching Assistants
- Soumya Ghosh, office hours Wednesdays from 10:00am-12:00pm, CIT room 315.
- Jason Pacheco, office hours Tuesdays from 10:00am-12:00pm, CIT room 361.
- Undergraduate Teaching Assistants
- Max Barrows, Head UTA, office hours Sunday-Tuesday evenings at times to be announced, CIT room 227.
- William Allen, office hours Wednesdays from 6:00-8:00pm, CIT room 227.
- Mailing Lists
- The course staff can be reached at cs195fheadtas-at-cs. The primary mailing list for course announcements is cs195f.2010-11s@lists.cs.brown.edu. Registered students have been automatically added. If desired, you can forward your CS e-mail to another account.
- Previous Courses
- Fall 2009: CSCI 1950-F: Introduction to Machine Learning, Mark Johnson and Erik Sudderth.
- Fall 2006: CS 195-5: Introduction to Machine Learning, Greg Shakhnarovich.
Announcements
- May 2, 2011
- The standard office hour schedule will continue through Friday, May 6. Office hours for the weeks of May 9 and May 16 will be held at times to be announced later, via the course mailing list.
- March 24, 2011
- Additional details regarding the completion of projects for graduate-level credit are now available.
- March 14, 2011
- For homework 5, students have the option to submit revised solutions to questions 2(b-f) and question 3. Revisions are due Friday, March 18 at 12:00pm. The posted solutions to question 2(a) may be helpful.
- February 23, 2011
- Due to recent problems with Brown's Matlab license server, the due date for homework 3 has been extended until Friday, Feb. 25 at 12:00pm.
- February 16, 2011
- Beginning tomorrow, recitations will be held a half hour earlier, from 5:30-6:30pm.
- February 14, 2011
- The office hour schedule has been updated - see above.
- February 8, 2011
- A reader containing the course textbook, Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective, is now available for purchase from the Metcalf Copy Center.
- February 4, 2011
- CS accounts and mailing list subscriptions have been created for all students registered in Banner as of Wednesday, Feb. 2. To get your new account info, run the command ub-new-account in the Useful Box of a department machine. The Sun Lab consultant can help if you have troubles. If you were not registered, register, then e-mail mbarrows-at-cs with your name and banner ID.
- February 2, 2011
- There have been some changes to the scheduled office hours. See above or the revised syllabus.