FYI: CSE 574 (Planning & Learning) is being offered next semester

Folks:

 CSE 574: Planning & Learning is being offered next semester. Sungwook Yoon   is the instructor of record and Will Cushing
and J. Benton will also be actively involved (they are all being cc'd on this mail). Between them, they know a whole lot about the
area.  Although I am not teaching, I may play the role of an  honorary TA (if they let me).

If you liked the planning, MDP etc, you will enjoy 574.

Information on the past offerings of CSE 574 is available at http://rakaposhi.eas.asu.edu/cse574

UG students who want to take it for graduate credit should contact Sungwook.


regards
Rao

Re: Book prizes..

I would add "Godel, Echer, Bach"
by........the name escapes me, but I'm sure google knows :).

-Will

On 10/31/06, Subbarao Kambhampati <rao@asu.edu> wrote:
> This mail is primarily meant for the student who correctly guessed that
> he/she is one of the students crossing 70 (he/she knows who she/he is).
>
> It is being cc'd to the class list just so to set the record straight and
> stop any possible speculations of reneging on my part (most of which I
> probably
> mooted myself ;-).
>
> Dear >70:
>
> Please feel free to send me amazon link to any one general science book that
> you would like to get. Some non-binding suggestions, that I had enjoyed
> reading, include:
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Language-Instinct-Steven-Pinker/dp/0060976519
> (The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker)
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Guns-Germs-Steel-Fates-Societies/dp/0393317552
> (Guns, Germs & Steel by Jared Diamond)
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Genome-Autobiography-Species-Chapters-P-S/dp/0060894083
> (Genome by Matt Riddley)
>
> http://www.amazon.com/American-Prometheus-Triumph-Tragedy-Oppenheimer/dp/0375726268
> ( American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by
> Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin)
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Knew-Infinity-Ramanujan/dp/0671750615
> (The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan by Robert
> Kanigel)
>
> cheers
> Rao
>
>
>

Fwd: Hw3 statistics

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Lei Tang <L.Tang@asu.edu>
Date: Oct 30, 2006 11:55 AM
Subject: Hw3 statistics
To: Subbarao Kambhampati <rao@asu.edu>

Dear Rao:

The full score of hw3 is 40 + 40. I'll post the details of grading standard in the blog later.
The following are the statistics of hw3  grades:

HW3	Without Extra Credits(40)			With Extra Credits(80)
	Mean	Median	Highest	Mean	Median	Highest
Overall	25.1	28	36	34.9	30	66
Under	19.3	18.5		26.6	21.5
Graduate	29.6	31		41.1	36

Very few students did the policy iteration problem correctly.

These two did a good job:
XXX  : 36/40.
YYY.:   35/40.

cheers
-Lei

Book prizes..

This mail is primarily meant for the student who correctly guessed that he/she is one of the students crossing 70 (he/she knows who she/he is).

It is being cc'd to the class list just so to set the record straight and stop any possible speculations of reneging on my part (most of which I probably
mooted myself ;-).

Dear >70:

Please feel free to send me amazon link to any one general science book that you would like to get. Some non-binding suggestions, that I had enjoyed reading, include:

http://www.amazon.com/Language-Instinct-Steven-Pinker/dp/0060976519 (The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker)

http://www.amazon.com/Guns-Germs-Steel-Fates-Societies/dp/0393317552 (Guns, Germs & Steel by Jared Diamond)

http://www.amazon.com/Genome-Autobiography-Species-Chapters-P-S/dp/0060894083 (Genome by Matt Riddley)

http://www.amazon.com/American-Prometheus-Triumph-Tragedy-Oppenheimer/dp/0375726268 ( American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin)

http://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Knew-Infinity-Ramanujan/dp/0671750615   (The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan by Robert Kanigel)

cheers
Rao

(**Important Modification to the extension policy**) Re: Project 3 Haloween extension

Folks:
 Sorry for the second mail on this topic, but it occurred to me that my extension coming at 9pm is probably unfair for the people who already worked
on the project 3 mostly (there seem to be a fair number of them), or have already irrevocably missed all the Haloween parties to
actually put the extension to use.

I thought up a hopefully fairer extension process

-->Project 3 is still nominally due on Thursday in class
--> Each of you have one penalty-less extension that you can either use for this project or save it and use it for any of the  next ones.
 

Apologies for any confusion.

Rao

On 10/31/06, Subbarao Kambhampati <rao@asu.edu> wrote:

It has been brought to the attention of the management that the Simpsons are too busy filming their semi-annual
Haloween special. In view of this, it has been decided that project 3 will be accepted until
Tuesday the 7th, in class.

Project 4--on prolog--will be given out by the end of this week and will be due before thanksgiving.

Homework 4 socket will be opened and filled with uncertainty and logic questions.

Happy Haloween.
Rao

midterm solutions posted..

midterm solutions are available at

http://rakaposhi.eas.asu.edu/cse471/f06-midterm-solns12.pdf

rap

Project 3 Haloween extension

It has been brought to the attention of the management that the Simpsons are too busy filming their semi-annual
Haloween special. In view of this, it has been decided that project 3 will be accepted until
Tuesday the 7th, in class.

Project 4--on prolog--will be given out by the end of this week and will be due before thanksgiving.

Homework 4 socket will be opened and filled with uncertainty and logic questions.

Happy Haloween.
Rao