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Please check here for announcements and readings.

Dec 15: Course website is up.
Jan 1: Website is updated.
Jan 22: First class (Lecture 1)
Jan 24: Lecture 2 (Read Bishop 1.2,2.1)
Jan 29: Lecture 3 (Read Bishop 1.1-1.5, Duda 2.1-2.6)
Jan 31: Lecture 4 (Any MATLAB tutorial)
Jan 31: Brush-up on calculus / linear algebra / statistics background (Duda Appendix A.2, A.4, A.5)
Jan 31: HW#1 is assigned
Feb 5: Lecture 5 (Read Duda 5.1-5.5)
Feb 7: Lecture 6 (Read Bishop 5.1-5.3.2, Duda 6.1-6.3.1)
Feb 7: Review basic optimization (Bishop Appendix E)
Feb 7: Jordan book is available on courseworks (click on Files & Resources)
Feb 12: Lecture 7 (Read Vapnik, Statistical Learning Theory, chapter 0)
Feb 12: Vapnik's book (SLT) is reserved in the Engineering library (Mudd building)
Feb 14: Lecture 8 (Read Vapnik, SLT, 1.1-1.11)
Feb 14: HW#1 is due
Feb 14: HW#2 is assigned
Feb 19: Lecture 9 (Read Vapnik, SLT, 3.1, 3.2.1, 3.3, 3.7, 3.10, 3.13)
Feb 21: Lecture 10 (Read Bishop 7.1 and Burges Tutorial online)
Feb 26: Lecture 11 (Read Vapnik 4.9.1-4.9.2, 4.11, 6.1 and Burges Tutorial online)
Feb 28: Lecture 12 (Read Bishop 6.1-6.2)
Feb 28: HW#2 is due
Feb 28: HW#3 is assigned
Mar 5: Lecture 13 (Midterm Review)
Mar 7: Lecture 14 (Read Duda 3.8, Bishop 12.1)
Mar 7: Sample midterm handed out in class
Mar 12: Lecture 15 (Read Bishop 12.1, 9.1)
Mar 14: Midterm Exam
Mar 14: HW#4 is assigned
Mar 19: Spring Recess (no class)
Mar 21: Spring Recess (no class)
Mar 26: Lecture 16 (Read Bishop 9.1-9.3, 1.6)
Mar 28: Lecture 17 (Read Bishop 9.3-9.4, Jordan 10)
Mar 28: HW#3 is due
Apr 2: Lecture 18 (Graphical Models: Read Bishop 8, Jordan 2)
Apr 4: Lecture 19 (Read Bishop 8, Jordan 2,8)
Apr 4: HW#4 is due
Apr 4: HW#5 is assigned
Apr 9: Lecture 20 (See tutorials page for further reading for the rest of the course)
Apr 11: Lexture 21
Apr 16: Lecture 22
Apr 18: Lecture 23, HW#5 is due, HW#6 is assigned
Apr 23: Lecture 24
Apr 25: Lecture 25
Apr 30: Lecture 26 (Vinod Prabhakaran on recent ML applications to NLP)
May 2: Lecture 27 (last lecture)
May 5: HW#6 is due by 1pm

May 14: Final Exam 1.10-4pm, HAM 702