Universitety of Bergen : Department of informatics

INF280 - Searching and Machine Learning
Fall 2012

Tentative syllabus (pensum)

  1. I. Eidhammer, I. Jonassen, W.R. Taylor PROTEIN BIOINFORMATICS An Algorithmic Approach to Sequence and Structure Analysis,
    Chapter 1 - 3, Appendix A, B
    Note This is included in a compendium which can be bought at Studentbokhandelen
  2. P.H. Winston ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
    Chapter 4 - 5
    Note This is included in a compendium which can be bought at Studentbokhandelen
  3. T.M. Mitchell MACHINE LEARNING
    Chapters 1 - 4.
    Chapter 5.1 - 5.2
    Chapter 6.1 - 6.3, 6.7 - 6.9
  4. Shepard's tutorial
  5. Two compulsory exercises
  6. The group exercises

Lecturer

Inge Jonassen
Office 5103, Datablokken, Høyteknologisenteret, 5th floor
Tel: 55584713
E-mail: inge@ii.uib.no

Lectures

Lectures are normally given Tuesdays 10:15-12:00 and Fridays 12:15-14:00. The lectures may be given in English.

First lecture/orientation meeting Tuesday August 21st.


Lecture plan

  1. Aug 21: Introduction, molecular biology

Exercises

Assignments are an important part of the course. About 10 assignments will be given, including 2 or 3 compulsory ones. Passing the compulsory assignments is required before taking the exam. These will also be graded and the grades will count towards the final grade of the course.

Assignments classes (øvingstimer) take place on Wednesdays 14:15-16:00 in room 2103. There you will together go through the exercises. Please prepare well for the classes. These classes are led by Ksenia Lavrichenko (Ksenia.Lavrichenko@uni.no).

Exercises

Links

Some useful links are given below.