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CS 440/ECE 448
Fall 2025
Margaret Fleck

Schedule and Lectures

This schedule is TENTATIVE and will be updated as the term progresses.

Readings not covered in lecture are in red . Optional supplementary readings are on a separate page.

Date Week Topics Lecture Notes
and Readings
Quiz
Wed
MP
due Fri
In Real Life
Aug 25-29 1 Intro
Naive Bayes
Probability Review
Introduction
Naive Bayes
Sept 1-5 2 Naive Bayes More Naive Bayes Labor Day Mon
Sept 8-12 3 Search Search
More Search
Quiz 1 MP 1 Add Date Mon
Sept 15-19 4 Robotics
Natural Language
Robotics
Geometry Cheat Sheet
Natural Language
MP 2 Reflections/Projections Tues-Sat
Sept 22-26 5 Natural Language
Hidden Markov Models
HMMs Quiz 2 MP 3 Rosh Hashanah Tues/Wed
Sept 29
  -Oct 3
6 Hidden Markov Models
Computer Vision
MP 4 Yom Kippur Thurs
Vet Med Open House Sun
Oct 6-10 7 Classifiers
Linear Classifiers
Quiz 3 MP 5 Moon Festival Mon
Oct 13-17 8 Linear classifiers
Neural Nets
makeup one of
Quizzes 1-3
MP 6 Drop date Fri
Oct 20-24 9 Neural Nets
Vector Semantics
Quiz 4 Diwali Mon
Oct 27-31 10 Sequential Neural Nets MP 7 Halloween Fri
Clocks change Sun
Nov 3-7 11 Reinforcement Learning Quiz 5 MP 8 Guy Fawkes Night Wed
Nov 10-14 12 Constraint Satisfaction
Classical Planning
MP 9 Armistice Day Tues
Nov 17-21 13 Games Quiz 6 MP 10
Nov 24-28 Hanging out and eating too much
Dec 1-5 14 Bayes Nets makeup one of
Quizzes 1-6
MP 11
Dec 8-12 15 TBD Reading day Thurs
Finals start Fri
Dec 15-19 Our final (= Quiz 7) will be on Monday Dec 15th, during our official 8-11am timeslot.