Quiz 11 Available
This is the last quiz for the 480-F10 class. It is optional, and intended as a make-up opportunity in case you performed less than optimal during one of the earlier ones. The quiz is be available until Thu, Dec. 8, 7:00 pm, and has a time limit of one hour. As with the other quizzes, you may consult the textbook, lecture notes or other relevant material, but not other students or human agents. The use of computer-based agents for help with the answers is only permitted if you developed those agents yourself.
Various Feedback Forms Available
Final Exam/Quiz
Since there should be some final exam activity during finals week, we’ll do a final quiz, which you can use to replace the score on another quiz you may have missed or not done so well in. So in total, there will be nine quizzes, and only the eight highest scores will be counted. This quiz will be cumulative, covering all the topics discussed throughout the quarter. If you’re not happy with your quiz score, you can also submit additional quiz questions; for details, see the earlier entry on Quiz Makeup Opportunity (Oct. 10, Tag “Quiz”).
The final exam time slots are Thu, Dec. 8, 7:10 - 10:00 AM for 480-01 and Thu, Dec. 8, 4:10 - 7:00 PM for 480-03. My plan is to make the quiz available from the beginning of the first slot until the end of the second slot, so from 7:10 AM until 7:00 PM. You don’t need to be on campus to take the quiz, all you need is access to Blackboard. The modus is the same as for the other quizzes: Notes, books, Web lookup is allowed, but collaboration with others and calculation of answers by computer programs are not.
Quiz Week 10
The topic is learning.
A2 and other Grades on Blackboard
Lab 9 Available: Decision Tree Learning
A3 Optional; Deadline Changed to Mon, Nov 28
I'm also changing the deadline for A3 to midnight, Mon, Nov. 28. This way we can have the competition during the lecture or lab period on Tue, Nov. 29, time permitting.
Please Re-submit A2 on Blackboard
Please re-submit your assignment under “A2 Resubmit” on Blackboard. Unfortunately there is no way to recover the already submitted material, according to the Blackboard admins.
Updated Grades on Blackboard
* Labs L1 through L7
I just noticed that some of you submitted non-programming labs via Blackboard; I still have to evaluate those.
* Assignments A1 and A2
If you have a score of around 10 for A2, it is only for the first part.
The scores reflect only the programs shown in the lab. I haven’t graded the rest yet.
I changed the maximum score on Blackboard from 33 to 25.
* Project Week 4 and 6 Milestones
I believe this includes all requests for re-evaluation. Let me know if you’ve asked for one, but your score hasn’t changed.
* AI Nugget presentations
I believe I’ve graded all the presentations given so far.
If you’ve given your presentation, but your score is around 60, you probably haven’t submitted your presentation material (slides, Prezi) on the Blackboard Wiki.
Lab Week 8 Available: Agents and Reasoning
Quiz Week 7
It will cover “Games”; see the schedule for mappings to the text book and the slides.
A2 Deadline pushed back to Tue, Nov. 9
Milestone Week 6 Feedback
Milestone Week 4 Feedback
Week 6 - Beta Prototype Demos
Lab Week 7 Available: Hexagonal Wumpus World Exploration
Feedback on Team Work
The mid-quarter version mostly helps me to determine if there are problems with teams. We’ll do another one at the end of the quarter, and the collective feedback from that one will also affect your team score, albeit to a moderate degree (most students usually get scores around 16-18 out of 20 for this).
Quiz Week 6 on Tue, Oct. 25
Clarification of Milestone Due Dates and Peer Team Evaluations
The evaluation process involves at a minimum the review of the documentation produced by the development team. If possible, the evaluation team should download and install prototypes and try out the system, preferably on the basis of the evaluation plan put together by the development team in Milestone Week 4. At the discretion of the evaluation team, they can also meet with the development team to discuss the project, or to see the current status of the system under development. This is especially advisable if the prototype or final system requires special software or hardware not available to the development team
The evaluation is due one week after the respective milestone. However, I won’t penalize the evaluation team if the development team delivers the milestone late. So as of today (Mon, Week 6) you should have the evaluation of Milestone Week 4 completed.
Lab Week 6 Available
Evaluation Teams Assigned
For me, there are two important aspects to this peer evaluation: First, I’d like to have an extra set of eyes take a look at the project under evaluation. Second, I want the team under evaluation to get additional feedback from someone doing similar work, even if the nature and domain of their project is different.
Put the evaluation on the wiki for your own project by creating a new Wiki page called “Evaluations”. An easy way to do this is to put a link to the new page on one of the existing pages via
[wiki:Evaluations Evaluations]
. From there, you can link to the individual evaluations of the milestones. The deadline for the evaluations is one week after the milestones are due. However, evaluation teams won’t be penalized if documents by the development team are not made available on time. Grades Updated on Blackboard
- Project Week 2 and 4 Milestones,
- partial AI Nugget grades (proposal, presentation, presentation material)
- Labs 2 and 3,
- modified Quiz 5 scores (I added 10 points to everybody’s score to adjust for the missing question) .
I may be a bit behind with grading of the Week 4 milestone and presentation material, but I wanted to get the grades up before going on my trip tomorrow.
If you see a 0 as a score, it usually means that I haven’t graded that part yet. When I transfer grades from my spreadsheet to Blackboard, Blackboard replaces cells that have no values with zeroes.
Quiz Makeup Opportunity
Here are the guidelines for these questions:
- you need to indicate for which quiz (by week or by topic) the questions are intended
- each question adds up to five points to your overall quiz score; if I need to revise the question or answers, you may get fewer points
- you can submit several questions, but your overall quiz score won't be higher than 100 points
- please formulate the questions as plain text format according to the template below. Multiple-choice are my preferred option, but multiple-answers (where more than one answer is correct), fill-in-the-blank, calculated answers, and several others are also available. I've tried free-form text answers as well, but grading those in Blackboard is really tedious - far worse than the paper equivalent.
Question Template:
This is a template for a multiple choice question. Which of the following options is the correct or most suitable answer?
[ ] Answer 1 [10%] Why is it incorrect?]
[ ] Answer 2 [30%] [Why is it incorrect?]
[X] Answer 3 [100%] [Why is it correct?]
[ ] Answer 4 [0%] [Why is it incorrect?]
The two columns in square brackets indicate the amount of (partial) credit, and feedback to the student for the selected answer.
Quiz Week 4
It will cover “Uninformed Search Methods,” the material for Week 3; see the schedule for mappings to the text book and the slides.
Milestone Week 2 Feedback Posted
Let me know if you want me to re-evaluate your document, and point out the main changes you’ve made. Of course we can also discuss this during the lab time.
Lab 4 Available
A 1 Available
A 3 Available
Quiz Week 3
It will cover “Intelligent Agents,” the material for Week 2; see the schedule for mappings to the text book and the slides.
Project Template Available on your Team Wiki
Lab 2: Auto-Step Solution for BotEnvironment
Author: Alan Phu Truong.
Solution:
Instead of using the following to start your environment:
java -classpath .:WumpusEnvironment.jar BotEnvironment.WumpusEnvironment
Use:
java -Xint -classpath .:WumpusEnvironment.jar BotEnvironment.WumpusEnvironment
AutoStep seems to work under more circumstances with this flag.
-Xint: Operate in interpreted-only mode. Compilation to native code is disabled, and all bytecodes are executed by the interpreter. The performance benefits offered by the Java HotSpot VMs' adaptive compiler will not be present in this mode.See http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.3/docs/tooldocs/linux/java.html
I’ve also added a pointer to additional material on Blackboard (under BotEnvironment JavaDocs, BotEnvironment Tutorial, and BotEnvironment FAQ) to the Lab 2 description.
If you want to be updated about postings to the Blackboard Discussion forum, click on the forum title, and then on the “Subscribe” button at the top. Subscriptions can be enabled or disabled for a specific forum, so not all of them will have the “Subscribe” button.
Slides Week 1 Available
Blackboard Access Set Up
We'll use it mostly for the following:
* Submission of assignments (there's a menu entry "Assignment Submission") and possibly some of the labs,
* AI Nugget presentation (under “AI Wiki”). If you already have a topic, pick a date, and enter your name and topic in the table with the presentation schedule. You'll also add a Wiki page there with your topic proposal, and later the draft and final versions of your presentation material.
* Grades; I’m keeping the grades in a spreadsheet (after losing all the grades in a Blackboard mishap a few years ago, I’ve learned my lesson), but I’m copying them to Blackboard on a regular basis.
Please note that the Wiki and the Discussion Board are part of a different, permanent course ( CSC-0480 ALL RELATED COURSES (CSC-0480-FKURFESS)), and linked to the 480 menu entry. I’ve copied the enrollment to that course, so it will appear in your list of Blackboard courses as well.
Those of you who have added the course later may encounter broken link or access permission problems. If those persist for more than a day, let me know, and I’ll check into it.
Depending on how you navigate, you may also see the menu for that course, which has a darker shade of green as background, and different entries in the list of options on the left.