Announcements

• Exam 2 will be held in class on December 3.
• Here is the Fall 2009 Exam 2 study guide.
• Three suggested Exam 2 problems in MS Word format due by class time on Monday, November 30.
• The average grade on Exam 1 was 74.
• Here is the Fall 2009 Exam 1 study guide.
• Here is the Fall 2005 Exam 1 solution.
• Course schedule (all lectures in Kingsbury S320): Monday 4-5, Tuesday and Thursday 4:40-6
• Office hours: Monday 1-2 PM, Tuesday 3-4 PM

Reading Assignments

• September 3:
  • Textbook, Chapters 1 and 2
• September 15:
  • Bernard Widrow and Michael A. Lehr, "30 Years of Adapteive Neural Networks: Perceptron, Madaline, and Backpropagation," Proceedings of the IEEE, 1990

Homework Assignments
Turn in homework assignments in Word or PDF document format. The document should be well formatted, mixing the graphs and explanations as requested in the assignment, with no handwritten or hand drawn items. Set up a shared folder with me and deposit assignments in individual folders, one for each assignment. If applicable, include all the Matlab, and/or other files (e.g. data files), that I would need to recreate your results.

Assignments are due at class time on the due date.

• HW 1, due 9/10/09:
  • Complete the following proofs. Examples you can copy and use are provided in two formats: .doc, .docx.
• HW 2, due 9/17/09
• HW 3, due 10/01/09
• HW 4 (see also Numbers.m), due 10/08/09
• HW 5, due 10/15/09
• HW 6, due 10/22/09
• HW 7, due 11/05/09
• HW 8, due 11/16/09
• HW 9, due 11/19/09
• HW 10, due 11/24/09
• HW 11, due 12/07/09

Links

• I keep a list of interesting links on my del.icio.us page. You can find links related to this course here. As the semester progresses, this list will grow. If you have a del.icio.us account we can share relevant links - feel free to add me as a contact.
• Check out my post on eceblogger about the 2007 fall semester student presentations.