Computer Science 463b/563b Announcements


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5/1/09 Please remember to include in your project report estimates of the time you spent on various aspects of the project.
4/30/09 Your final project is due on Monday, May 4 at 5 pm on paper at my office, 414 AKW. Office hours for the remainder of this week: Thursday 1:30-3 (LR) & 2:30-3:30 (DA); Friday 1:30-3 (LR) & 3-4 (DA).
4/1/09 Office hours: Monday (4/6) 2-3 pm (DA) and Tuesday (4/7) 1-2:30 pm (LR). Assignment #5 has been returned, with summary error-rate results for all submissions. Recall that assignment #6 (and possible re-do for assignment #5) is due Wednesday (4/8).
4/1/09 Assignment #6 (due 4/1/09) is available from [Assignments].
3/26/09 Please read (for 3/27) my paper "Learning regular sets from queries and counterexamples", Information and Control 75, 87-106 (1987). (See [Papers].)
3/22/09 Office hours: Monday (3/23) 3-4 pm (DA) and Tuesday (3/24) 1:30-3 pm (LR). Recall that assignment #5 is due Wednesday (3/25).
3/4/09 Office hours: Wednesday (3/4) 2-3:30 pm (LR), Thursday (2/5) 10-11 am (LR) and Friday (3/6) 2-3:30 pm (DA). Assignments #3 and #4 have been returned.
2/27/09 Assignment #5 (due 3/25/09) is available from [Assignments].
2/25/09 Please read (for 2/27) Avrim Blum's paper "Empirical Support for Winnow and Weighted Majority Algorithms: Results on a Calendar-Scheduling Domain." (See [Papers].)
2/20/09 The solution to Assignment #2, problem 2(b) is available from Assignment #2: Solution for 2(b). The lecture log is current to 2/20.
2/18/09 Assignment #4 (due 2/25/09) is available from [Assignments]. Please note that the lecture log [Lecture Log] has been brought *almost* up to date.
2/18/09 Office hours. Thursday (2/19) 3-4 (DA), Monday (2/23) 3-4 (DA) and Tuesday (2/24) 2-3:30 (LR). Please email us if you cannot make the scheduled hours.
2/9/09 Clarification of Assignment 3, problem 2: the distribution D_c is uniform on the positive examples of c and *zero* on negative examples of c.
2/9/09 Revised office hours for Lev Reyzin for Tuesday (2/10): 11:30 am - 1 pm instead of 2-3:30 pm.
2/6/09 Office hours for the week of 2/9-2/13. Monday (2/9) 3-4 (DA), Tuesday (2/10) 2-3:30 (LR), Wednesday (2/11) 2-3:30 (LR), Thursday (2/12) 3-4 (DA). DA is Dana Angluin (414 AKW) and LR is Lev Reyzin (412 AKW). Please email us if you cannot make the scheduled hours.
2/6/09 Assignment #3 (due 2/13/09) is available from [Assignments].
1/27/09 Revised office hours: Lev's office hours on Wednesday (1/28) will be 2-3:15 pm. Other office hours are unchanged.
1/25/09 Office hours for this week: Monday 3-4:30 (DA), Tuesday 2-3:30 (LR), Wednesday 2-3:30 (LR), Thursday 3-4 (DA). DA is Dana Angluin (414 AKW) and LR is Lev Reyzin (412 AKW). Please email us if you cannot make the scheduled hours. Notes for the first five lectures are available; please see [Lecture Log]. Extras of paper handouts are available outside 414 AKW.
1/22/09 Assignment #2 (due 1/30/09) is available from [Assignments]. A summary of responses to Assignment #1 is also available there.
1/12/09 Notes for the first lecture are available; please see [Lecture Log]. I will keep up the notes during shopping period and for an unpredictable length of time thereafter.
1/12/09 The first assignment (due 1/16/09) is available; please see [Assignments].
1/11/09 Welcome to CPSC 463b/563b! See you in class on Monday 1/12/09 at 11:35 am in AKW 200.

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