CS342 Neural Networks Class Schedule

Aug 31 Intro to Neural Nets
Sep 07 Brain Organization

Neurons and Synapses

Homework 1 (Spiking Neurons) assigned.

Sep 14 Biological Models: Visual Cortex

Perceptrons, Backpropagation

Sep 21 Backpropagation Extensions

Cascade Correlation, Radial Basis Functions

Homework 1 (Spiking Neurons) due.
Homework 2 (Backpropagation) assigned.

Sep 28 First Midterm (Practice questions)
Oct 05 7-10pm PAI 3.14 Self-Organizing Maps

Extensions of Self-Organizing Maps

Homework 2 (Backpropagation) due.
Homework 3 (Feature Maps / LVQ) assigned.

Oct 12 Adaptive Resonance Theory

Reinforcement Learning

Oct 19 Neuroevolution Methods

Neuroevolution Applications

Homework 3 (Feature Maps / LVQ) due.
Optional Project (NeuroEvolution) assigned.

Oct 26 Hopfield Nets

Boltzmann Machines

Homework 4 (Hopfield/Boltzmann) assigned.

Nov 02 Second Midterm (Practice questions)
Nov 09 Subsymbolic Natural Language Processing

Modular High-Level Systems

Nov 16 Memory Modeling

Reasoning

Homework 4 (Hopfield/Boltzmann) due.
Homework 5 (NLP) assigned.

Nov 23 Thanksgiving
Nov 30 Committee Machines

Hardware Implementation

Homework 5 (NLP) due.

Dec 07 Computational Intelligence in Games

Review + Class Survey

Dec 15 5pm Optional Project (NeuroEvolution) due.
Dec 16th 2-5pm ESB 223 Final (Practice questions)