12/24/1999: CIS 830 is cross-listed as CIS 864, Data Engineering, for graduate students wishing to submit CIS 864 on their program of study. The reference number is 32681.
01/20/2000: The paper for Friday, January 21, 2000 will be S. Thrun and T. Mitchell, 1993. Integrating Inductive Neural Network Learning and Explanation-Based Learning. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), R. Bajcsy (ed.), Morgan Kaufmann, San Mateo, CA.
01/20/2000: The first list of papers (numbers 1-10) is now online. You may download and view or print them yourself, or purchase the first notes packet from the Engineering Copy Center. Once you have looked over the papers, sign up by e-mail ASAP to reserve your presentation time and paper (selection is first-come, first-served, so send your first and second choices). To encourage students to select earlier presentation times and more challenging papers, extra credit is offered for choosing indicated papers.
01/24/2000: Be sure to check the lectures page for all lectures by 9am on the morning of lectures and discussions. If you are giving a presentation, please provide your slides in PowerPoint, PostScript, LaTeX or any other electronic form to the instructor after your talk.
01/24/2000: Please note: Paper 9 ("In Defense of Probability" by P. Cheeseman) is not in the first notes packet, nor is it available online, because it is an IJCAI-85 paper and is only available in hard copy. A copy will be distributed in class.
01/25/2000: The paper review for Friday, January 28, 2000 is due before class on Friday (and will be counted late after midnight).
01/25/2000: Please consult the new syllabus for the finalized paper list and class calendar. More details on written problem sets, machine problems (programming assignments), and paper reviews appear in the revised course introduction handout.
02/03/2000: From now on, paper reviews will be graded on a 10-point scale (poor = 6 points, adequate = 7 points, good = 9 points, very good = 10 points). Everyone received 8-10 points extra credit on the reviews for the first 2 papers.
02/03/2000: Sample reviews for the first and second papers are now online. Please note: These samples are intended as examples of substantial critiques and are not necessarily examples of ideal usage, grammar, or writing style.
02/04/2000: Please see the note in the CIS 830 class web board regarding the submission of requests for online materials.
02/07/2000: Please look at the comments in the graded reviews that the TA has mailed back to you. You can read comments in MS Word 97 and 2000 by brushing over them and read, edit, and add comments by right-clicking on them and selecting "edit comment".
02/09/2000: Your proposal due date is extended to Friday, 02/18/2000. Please see the note "IMPORTANT: Project proposals" in the class web board.
02/17/2000: CIS 830 term project proposals are due on Friday at midnight. Once you have revised them according to the guidelines in the web board and my comments on your draft proposals, send them to cis830ta@ringil.cis.ksu.edu.
02/17/2000: When you submit Homework 1, send it as an e-mail attachment to cis830ta@ringil.cis.ksu.edu. MS Word 97/2000 is preferred, but PostScript and PDF are also OK.
02/18/2000: The due date of your revised project proposals has been extended (for a second and final time) to midnight on Tuesday, 02/22/2000. This is a one-time extension, and is intended to give you a chance to incorporate the instructor's comments. Make sure you adhere to the guidelines in the lecture notes and the in-class discussion (which will be summarized on the class web board). Note: your most recent submission to cis830ta@ringil.cis.ksu.edu as of midnight on Tuesday will be the one that is graded.
02/19/2000: Paper #9, "In Defense of Probability" by Peter Cheeseman, is now open because the scheduled presenter has withdrawn. This paper is now worth 10 points extra credit. The presentation date is March 9, 2000. If you are willing to switch, e-mail the instructor immediately. (A hard copy of the paper was distributed in class.)
02/20/2000: Paper #9, "In Defense of Probability" by Peter Cheeseman, has been claimed.
02/27/2000: Note - See the hint in the class web board on Problem 4 of Homework 1.
02/27/2000: Remember to bring your reviews for Paper #8 (Modular and Hierarchical Learning Systems by Jordan and Jacobs) for tomorrow's in-class discussion.
03/01/2000: Remember to bring your reviews for Paper #9 (In Defense of Probability by Cheeseman) for Friday's presentation and Monday's in-class discussion.
03/02/2000: To give students in CIS 736 more preparation time for their midterm, the CIS 830 midterm exam will be distributed on Friday, March 10, 2000, and will be due at the beginning of class on Friday, March 17, 2000.
03/08/2000: The remaining 2 homework assignments will be handed out on Monday, March 27, 2000 and Monday, April, 10, 2000.
03/10/2000: A sample midterm is online, which we will go over in part during class.
03/12/2000: An extra credit item has been added to Homework 2; be sure to download the new version.
03/14/2000: Remember to bring your reviews for Paper #11 (The Lumiere Project: Bayesian User Modeling for Inferring the Goals and Needs of Software Users by Horvitz et al) for Wednesday's in-class discussion.
03/14/2000: Remember to bring your reviews for Paper #12 (Symbolic Causal Networks for Reasoning about Actions and Plans by Darwiche and Pearl) for Friday's presentation and the in-class discussion on Monday, March 27, 2000.
03/15/2000: Sample paper reviews are now online on the homework page.
03/16/2000: See the note in the web board concerning one of the midterm questions on committee machines.
03/17/2000: There will be no presentation today (Friday). Please come in to turn in your exam if you have not already done so; this class will be rescheduled.
03/21/2000: You are highly encouraged to download working demos (or working copies in the case of research-source or Linux Public License packages) of NeuroSolutions, SNNS, Hugin, or MLC++. If you plan to use any of them in your projects, you should look through their documentation and work through some tutorials before the end of March.
03/26/2000: Midterm statistics are as follows: possible 150 (100%), min 106 (70.7%), max 152 (101.3%), mean 134.9 (90.0%), stdev 14.3 (10.2%)
03/28/2000: Silicon Graphics, Incorporated (SGI) will be holding a seminar on high-performance Linux clusters and software technologies for any faculty, staff, and students who are interested. The 2 presentations will be held from 10:30am - 11:30am on Friday, March 31, 2000, in Room 206 of the K-State Union.
03/31/2000: Accounts and scratch directories have been created for CIS 830/864 students on the KDD Linux cluster. You may log into Topeka and Salina using ssh. If you have trouble logging in or accessing the scratch directory (/cis/topeka/scratch/cis830/yourlogin), send e-mail to Robert Illing, the KDD student system administrator. Be sure to include your login name and explain your access problem (e.g., how you are trying to log in).
04/02/2000: The list of extra papers for ancillary reviews and presentations is now online on the handouts page. Note: You may turn in a presentation or paper review for any paper in this packet in place of an assigned paper review.
04/03/2000: There will be no class on Wednesday, April 5, 2000. Yibin Zhan and Haipeng Guo's presentations on Bayesian models for text document categorization will be held on May 2, 2000.
04/04/2000: There will be class on Monday, April 10, 2000. The presentation will be Yue Jiao's talk on BBNs as symbolic causal networks.
04/30/2000: The next presentations (by Haipeng Guo and Yibin Zhan) will be on Tuesday, 05/02/2000, from 12:30-13:45 (12:30pm-1:45pm) in 152 Durland Hall. This will be collocated with Professor Daniel Andresen's course on advanced web technologies.
04/30/2000: There will be class tomorrow (Monday, 05/01/2000) in 236 Nichols, from 10:30-11:20. We will watch a tutorial video on genetic programming by John Koza (the first in a series of 3, but the only one to be shown in CIS830).
05/02/2000: Project reports are due by 21:00 (9:00pm) Friday, May 5, 2000. E-mail them directly to the instructor (one submission per group). The review assignments will be announced in class on Friday (each student in each group will review the joint report for one other group). Final reports will be posted online before midnight on Friday. Project reviews are due Friday, May 12, 2000, also by e-mail.
05/05/2000: Lecture 45 (the last lecture of the course, containing the full course review and summary) is now online.
05/06/2000: Project reports are now online. All of the files are mail folders containing MS Word or PDF attachments, which you can extract using a mail program such as Pine. All attachments have been tested; notify the instructor ASAP if you still have trouble opening them.If your report file is missing and you have already submitted it, please notify the instructor immediately; otherwise submit your report immediately to avoid being given a 0!
05/22/2000: Final grades, posted by pseudonym, are now online. Check your e-mail for your randomly generated pseudonym if you never submitted one.
05/28/2000: Updated final grades, posted by pseudonym, are now online. Check your e-mail for your randomly generated pseudonym if you never submitted one.
05/28/2000: The mean term project score is 184 out of 250.
05/28/2000: Statistics for the overall score are as follows: possible 1000 (100%), min 765 (76.5%), max 979 (97.9%), mean 861.7 (86.2%), stdev 46.0 (4.6%).
