6.868/MAS.731J Homework http://web.media.mit.edu/~dustin/6.868/homework.xml Society of Mind 2008 Homework en 5/14/2008 Feb. 6th: Introduction
  • Course application due Feb. 8th (midnight) [pdf] [txt]
    •  http://web.media.mit.edu/~dustin/6.868/#0 http://web.media.mit.edu/~dustin/6.868/#0     Feb. 13th: Chapter 1
  • Read Emotion Machine through chapter 1 [Preface, Ch1]
    •  http://web.media.mit.edu/~dustin/6.868/#1 http://web.media.mit.edu/~dustin/6.868/#1     Feb. 20th: Chapter 2
  • Read Emotion Machine through chapter 2 [Ch2]
    •  http://web.media.mit.edu/~dustin/6.868/#2 http://web.media.mit.edu/~dustin/6.868/#2     Feb. 27th: Chapter 3
  • Read Emotion Machine through chapter 3 [Ch3]
    •  http://web.media.mit.edu/~dustin/6.868/#3 http://web.media.mit.edu/~dustin/6.868/#3     Mar. 5th: Chapter 4
  • Read Emotion Machine through chapter 4 [Ch4]
  • Homework #1 assigned. Due Mar. 19 at 7pm. [pdf]
    •  http://web.media.mit.edu/~dustin/6.868/#4 http://web.media.mit.edu/~dustin/6.868/#4     Mar 12th: Chapter 5
  • Read Emotion Machine through chapter 5 [Ch5]
  • Optionally, read chapter 1 of Push Singh's PhD Thesis, EM-ONE: An Architecture for Reflective Commonsense Thinking [pdf] [html]
    •  http://web.media.mit.edu/~dustin/6.868/#5 http://web.media.mit.edu/~dustin/6.868/#5     Mar 19th: Chapter 6
  • Homework #1 due at 7pm.
  • Read Emotion Machine through chapter 6 [Ch6]
    •  http://web.media.mit.edu/~dustin/6.868/#6 http://web.media.mit.edu/~dustin/6.868/#6     Mar 25th
  • Spring break -- no class.
    •  http://web.media.mit.edu/~dustin/6.868/#7 http://web.media.mit.edu/~dustin/6.868/#7     Apr 2nd
  • Reading catch up. Emotion Machine through chapter 6 [Ch6]
  • Optional additional readings on commonsense:
  • Programs with common sense, John McCarthy, 1958 [pdf]
  • The challenge of knowledge soup, John Sowa, 2005 [pdf]
  • The Open Mind Common Sense: Knowledge acquisition from the general public., Push Singh et al. [pdf]
    •  http://web.media.mit.edu/~dustin/6.868/#8 http://web.media.mit.edu/~dustin/6.868/#8     Apr. 9th: Chapter 7
  • Read Emotion Machine through chapter 7 [Ch7]
  • Homework #2 assigned. Due April 16 at 7pm. [pdf]
  • Final Project Proposal Assigned. Due anytime before April 23.
  • Final Project due May 14th.
    •  http://web.media.mit.edu/~dustin/6.868/#9 http://web.media.mit.edu/~dustin/6.868/#9     Apr. 16th: Chapter 8
  • Read Emotion Machine through chapter 8 [Ch8]
  • Homework #2 due.
    •  http://web.media.mit.edu/~dustin/6.868/#10 http://web.media.mit.edu/~dustin/6.868/#10     Apr. 23rd
  • Final project proposals due.
    •  http://web.media.mit.edu/~dustin/6.868/#11 http://web.media.mit.edu/~dustin/6.868/#11     Apr. 30th
  • Lecture by Josh Tenenbaum.
  • Read this brief introduction.
  • Optionally, read this longer introduction.
    •  http://web.media.mit.edu/~dustin/6.868/#12 http://web.media.mit.edu/~dustin/6.868/#12     May 7th: Chapter 9
  • Read Emotion Machine through chapter 9, the end [Ch9]
    •  http://web.media.mit.edu/~dustin/6.868/#11 http://web.media.mit.edu/~dustin/6.868/#11     May 14th: Final Class
  • Final projects due Monday May 19th
    •  http://web.media.mit.edu/~dustin/6.868/#12 http://web.media.mit.edu/~dustin/6.868/#12