Spring 2026 Computer Science 4580 Lecture Summaries

• 1/12/2026: Introductory Lecture. media library for lecture recordings
• 1/14/2026: Overview of Decision Making - Getting a Tattoo. media library for lecture recordings
• 1/19/2026 - Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday. No Class.
• 1/21/2026: Introduction to Decision Making. media library for lecture recordings
• 1/23/2026: Economic Decision Making. media library for lecture recordings
• 1/26/2026: Goal-based Decisions + Behavioral Economics. transcript Today we are NOT in person, but over zoom: https://yale.zoom.us/j/95513387552. The session will be recorded.
• 1/28/2026: Guest lecture: Dan Russell. media library for lecture recordings
• 2/2/2026: Guest lecture: John Niccolai, Citadel. (not recorded)
• 2/4/2026: Finance. media library for lecture recordings
• 2/9/2026: Finance. media library for lecture recordings
• 2/11/2026: Guest lecture: Joanne Lipman media library for lecture recordings
• 2/16/2026: Cognitive Models . media library for lecture recordings
• 2/18/2026: Guest lecture: Professor William Goetzmann, Yale School of Management media library for lecture recordings
• 2/23/2026: Cognitive Models. No class today due to the storm. Not even on zoom.
• 2/25/2026: Guest speaker: Phil Vachon, Head of Infrastructure, Bloomberg LLC. media library for lecture recordings
• 3/2/2026: Cognitive Modelling. Paper. media library for lecture recordings
• 3/4/2026: Cognitive Modelling. Project. Class cancelled. Sorry. See lecture notes for information about project.
• Spring Break
• 3/7/2026: Extra recorded lecture to makeup for missing class 3/4. media library for lecture recordings
• 3/23/2026: Project Discussion + Lies. media library for lecture recordings
• 3/25/2026: Guest lecture: Eren Orbey, Microsoft. media library for lecture recordings
• 3/30/2026: Qualitative Arithmetic media library for lecture recordings
• 4/1/2026: Expert and Case-Based Systems. media library for lecture recordings
• 4/6/2026: Goals . media library for lecture recordings
• 4/8/2026: Guest speaker: Ben Fried. Not recorded.
• 4/13/2026: Goals and Relationships. media library for lecture recordings
• 4/15/2026: Guest lecture: George Neville-Neil, Yale CS ++ media library for lecture recordings
• 4/20/2026: Student Presentations. media library for lecture recordings
• 4/22/2026: Student Presentations. media library for lecture recordings