CSL333/CSL671 - Artificial Intelligence - Spring 2014 Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 5-5:50 pm in IVLT3 |
Instructor:
Mausam
(mausam at cse dot iitd dot ac dot in) Office hours: by appointment, Bharti 430 |
TAs: (Office hours: Tuesday/Friday 4-5 pm, GCL) Siddharth Bora, siddharth.nyx AT gmail.com Sudhanshu Shekhar, hi.sudhanshu02 AT gmail.com Arpit Jain, arpit.305 AT gmail.com Abhinav Kumar, abhinavkumar516 AT gmail.com Sourabh Mangal, mangal.sourabh13 AT gmail.com Himanshu Panwar, hpanwar35 AT gmail.com Happy Mittal, happy2332 AT gmail.com Yashoteja Prabhu, yashoteja.prabhu AT gmail.com Neeraj Kishore, mcs122804 AT cse.iitd.ac.in Ankit Anand, ankit.s.anand AT gmail.com |
Stuart Russell & Peter Norvig,
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach,
Prentice-Hall, Third Edition (2009) (required).
Assignments: 50%; Minor (each): 10%; Final: 30%; Class participation, online discussions: extra credit.
There will be five (mostly programming) assignments due approximately every two weeks. One assignment may be in two parts.
As adapted from Dan Weld's guidelines.
Collaboration is a very good thing. On the other hand, cheating is considered a very serious offense. Please don't do it! Concern about cheating creates an unpleasant environment for everyone. If you cheat, you get a zero in the assignment, and additionally you risk losing your position as a student in the department and the institute. The department's policy on cheating is to report any cases to the disciplinary committee. What follows afterwards is not fun.
So how do you draw the line between collaboration and cheating? Here's a reasonable set of ground rules. Failure to understand and follow these rules will constitute cheating, and will be dealt with as per institute guidelines.
- The Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi Rule: This rule says that you are free to meet with fellow students(s) and discuss assignments with them. Writing on a board or shared piece of paper is acceptable during the meeting; however, you should not take any written (electronic or otherwise) record away from the meeting. This applies when the assignment is supposed to be an individual effort or whenever two teams discuss common problems they are each encountering (inter-group collaboration). After the meeting, engage in a half hour of mind-numbing activity (like watching an episode of Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi), before starting to work on the assignment. This will assure that you are able to reconstruct what you learned from the meeting, by yourself, using your own brain.
- The Right to Information Rule: To assure that all collaboration is on the level, you must always write the name(s) of your collaborators on your assignment. This also applies when two groups collaborate.