Schedule is updated dynamically throughout the semester
| DATE | TOPIC / PRESENTER | READING | LOCATION | OUT/DUE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 12 | Intro & overview | P. J. Denning, Is computer science science? In Communications of ACM, 2005.How to read papers 1, 2 | Ryder 456 | Hw1 out |
| Jan 19 | Presenters: Jacob, Mackenzie, RobGuest lecture:Dr. Micah Goldblum | R. Huang et al. Understanding generalization through visualizations, arXiv, 2020 | Zoom &WVH 366 | Hw2 out Hw1 due |
| Jan 26 | Presenters: Gillian, Harsh, Nick | Ali et al, Discrimination through optimization: how Facebook’s ad delivery can lead to biased outcomes, HCI 2019. Related news item. | Ryder 456 | Hw3 out Hw2 dueProj group due |
| Feb 2 | Presenters: Aniket, Austin, ZoeGuest lecture:Mr. Tom Silver | N. Kumar et al. Bilevel planning for robots: An illustrated introduction, MIT, 2023 | Zoom &WVH 366 | Hw4 outHw3 due |
| Feb 9 | Presenters: Mackenzie | E. M. Bender et al. On the dangers
of stochastic parrots: Can language models be too big?, ACM
Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, 2021. One of many related commentaries. Presentation by author. |
Ryder 456 | Hw5 outHw4 due |
| Feb 16 | Presenters: Shrihari, NicoleGuest lecture:Mrs. Rachel Holladay | R. Holladay et al. Planning for multi-stage forceful manipulation, ICRA 2021 | Zoom &WVH 366 | Hw6 outHw5 due |
| Feb 23 | Presenters: Nick, KyleGuest lecture:Dr. Matthew McDermott | M. McDermott et al. Structure-inducing pre-training, Nature Machine Intelligence 2023 | Zoom &WVH 366 | Hw7 outHw6 due |
| Mar 1 | Presenters: Vivian, Xiaole, SophiaGuest lecture:Mr. Juncheng (Jason) Yang | J. Yang et al. FIFO can be better than LRU: the power of lazy promotion and quick demotion, HOTOS 2023 | Zoom &WVH 366 | Hw8 outHw7 dueProj proposal due |
| Mar 8 | No class, Spring break | |||
| Mar 15 | Panel with PhD students | Gues panelists: Jeffrey Gleason, Ethan Rogers, Laura South, Sarah Szvetecz | Ryder 456 | Hw9 outHw8 due |
| Mar 22 | Presenters: Belen, SanjanaGuest lecture:Mr. Yuzhe Yang | Y. Yang et al. Artificial intelligence-enabled detection and assessment of Parkinson’s disease using nocturnal breathing signals, Nature Medicine 2022 | Zoom &WVH 366 | Hw10 outHw9 due |
| Mar 29 | Presenters: Michael, FrankGuest lecture:Dr. Ting-Hao (Kenneth) Huang | C.-Y. Huang et al. Summaries as captions: Generating figure captions for scientific documents with automated text summarization, International Natural Language Generation Conference 2023 | Zoom &WVH 366 | Hw11 outHw10 due |
| Apr 5 | Presenters: Jason, TanishaGuest lecture:Dr. Serena Booth | S. Booth et al. The perils of trial-and-error reward design: misdesign through overfitting and invalid task specifications, AAAI 2023 | Zoom &WVH 366 | Hw11 due |
| Apr 12 | Project presentations. Class starts 9:30am | Ryder 456 | Proj slides due | |
| Apr 19 | Finals week starts |