If you are having trouble reading or accessing any of the materials, please reach out to me.
| Component | Weight |
|---|---|
| Projects | 40% |
| Quizzes | 15% |
| Essays | 20% |
| Cutting-edge work presentation and report | 15% |
| Participation | 10% |
Late Policy. Late work will be scored as follows:
| < 3 hours late | 100% of score |
| 24 hours late | 85% of score |
| 48 hours late | 50% of score |
| > 48 hours late | 0% of score |
Participation scores are determined as follows. If you have more than 8 abscenses, see below. If you have more than 4 absences, you will get zero points for attendance, i.e. loose a letter grade. If the above does not apply to you, then you get 50% of attendance simply for showing up and looking alert. For the remaining 50%, you need to actively contribute to the class sessions. You can do this by regularly contributing to class discussions, by sending the instructor interesting things related to AI, whether news articles or materials, among others.
For this course, I use AI to develop learning materials, quizzes, and assignments. All of those activities require consice prompts, giving the AI access to existing work, and a fair number of iterations. I do not use AI to grade assessments or assignments.
For the reading assignments and reviews, please do not use AI. I would like you to internalize and think about the materials. We will discuss those articles in class.
The quizzes will be paper-and-pencil, close-book, wiht an 8.5 by 11" sheet of paper wiht anything handwritten on it.
For the experiments, you will be asked to implement several types of neural networks, and you will be asked to conduct experiments. To design, implement, and debug your code, you may use AI. The assignments will offer more details. For the experiments, you may not use AI. You may not use AI for the first, the Sudoku assignment; that would take all the fun away...
For the presentations, please see the write-up for details.
When in doubt, please reach out to me.
Artificial Intelligence is a fun and interesting topic. I expect that you participate fully in this class. If you are bored in class, feel free to suggest ways to make class more interesting. I expect everyone to be a good citizen, doing things which will aid in the learning of everyone in this course and avoiding activities which will distract from them.
Please conduct yourself in class and outside in a manner that is respectful to yourself and others.
Please place your phones in your backpack during class. Violations will incur penalties to your attendance score.
It is critical to maintain academic integrity. It is essential for all students to cite any and all sources of help received in completing coursework. This practice not only fosters a culture of honesty and transparency but also prevents misunderstandings that might otherwise escalate to formal proceedings. Students should also be aware of what is appropriate help on homework assignments – see What Constitutes Misconduct - rev 02-10-2026.docx. To ensure fairness and responsibility, any instances of suspected misconduct will be investigated by the course instructor. As part of the investigation you will be asked to a meeting in my office so that we can discuss the case in detail. You will be able to justify and explain yuor actions.
Penalties range from a zero on an assignments, to -100% credit on an assignment, to a lowered course grade and to an F in the course, in egregious cases. It is common practice to refer cases in which misconduct is established to the Dean of Students.