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Class Schedule (Tentative)

	Date	Topic	Reading
01.	Jan 23	Probability Basics	Russel Norvig Ch. 13
		Homework 0 posted. Due 01/31/08 by noon.
02.	Jan 28	Probabilistic Reasoning	Russel Norvig Ch. 14.1-14.3
03.	Jan 30	Exact Inference	Russel Norvig Ch. 14.4
04.	Feb 04	Sum Product Algorithm	Factor Graph paper
05.	Feb 06	Approximate Inference: Stochastic	Russel Norvig 14.5
06.	Feb 11	Approximate Inference: MCMC	MCMC Survey
07.	Feb 13	Approximate Inference: MCMC (Contd.)
		Homework 1 posted. Due 02/21/08 by noon.
08.	Feb 18	Probabilistic Reasoning over Time I	Russell Norvig Ch. 15.1-15.2
09.	Feb 20	Probabilistic Reasoning over Time I (Contd.)	Russell Norvig 15.2
10.	Feb 25	Probabilistic Reasoning over Time I (Contd.)	Russell Norvig Ch 15.2-15.3
11.	Feb 27	Probabilistic Reasoning over Time II	Russell Norvig Ch. 15.4-15.5
		Homework 2 posted. Due 03/06/08 by noon.
12.	Mar 03	Making Simple Decisions	Russell Norvig Ch. 16
13.	Mar 05	Markov Decision Processes	Russell Norvig Ch. 17.1-17.2
14.	Mar 10	Markov Decision Processes (Contd.)	Russell Norvig Ch. 17.3-17.4
15.	Mar 12	Midterm Review
	Mar 17	Spring Break
	Mar 19	Spring Break
16.	Mar 24	Game Theory	Russell Norvig Ch. 17.6
17.	Mar 26	Midterm
18.	Mar 31	Game Theory (Contd.)
19.	Apr 02	Learning from Observations	Russell Norvig 18.1-18.3
20.	Apr 07	Learning, Boosting	Russell Norvig 18.4
21.	Apr 09	Boosting (Contd.)
		Homework 3 posted. Due 04/18/08 by noon.
22.	Apr 14	Learning Theory	Russell Norvig 18.5
23.	Apr 16	Statistical Learning	Russell Norvig 20.1-20.2
24.	Apr 21	Neural Networks	Russell Norvig 20.5
25.	Apr 23	Reinforcement Learning	Russell Norvig 21.1-21.2
		Homework 4 posted. Due 05/02/08 by noon.
26.	Apr 28	Reinforcement Learning (Contd.)
27.	Apr 30	Reinforcement Learning (Contd.)
28.	May 05	Learning with Hidden Variables	Russell Norvig 20.3
39.	May 07	Final Review
40.	May 15	Final Exam	1:30-3:30pm