CS/EECE 547

Instructor: Prof Barak Pearlmutter
TA: Santiago Jaramillo
Lectures: MW 5:30-6:45 CE 103
Office hours: Tues 1-3pm, ME436. Or by appointment. Or just drop in and take your chances.

Class mailing list

Everyone in the class must subscribe by visiting https://www.cs.unm.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cs547. The mailing list is used for both announcements and class-related chit chat. You can elect to receive a daily digest instead of individual messages using the web interface whose URL will be sent to you automatically when you subscribe.

Syllabus

The syllabus, and pointers to lecture notes, are available here.

Reference Materials

Online material you may find useful:

Assignments may use the MNIST Database of Handwritten Digits, a version of the MNIST digits database massaged by Yann LeCun. (A copy of the dataset will be available on the CS machines.)
Learning to Predict by the Methods of Temporal Differences, by Richard Sutton.
Temporal Difference Learning and TD-Gammon, by Gerald Tesauro.

Assignments

Assignments will be posted here as they become available.

play with a single neuron

Barak Pearlmutter <bap@cs.unm.edu>