The CMPS 242 exam will be from 9:00am to 11:00am on Wednesday Dec. 9 in the lecture room, E2 194. Although it is closed-book and closed-notes, students may have one 3x5 card (3 inches by 5 inches) of hand-written notes (both sides). No electronic devices of any kind will be allowed.
A topic list is under resources, and some self-study problems on the later topics is under homeworks.
The points for the last homework (titanic) will be increased to make the total number of HW points a round number.
Lecture: 2-3:20 MWF in E2 room 194
The Lectures are being recorded through the UCSC webcast system, webcast.ucsc.edu, login as cmps242, password will be given in lecture.
Instructor: David Helmbold, dph@soe.ucsc.edu
Office Hours: Wed & Fri 3:30-4:30 in E2 room 345B
TA: Michael Leece, mleece@ucsc.edu
Sections (Located in Baskin Engineering 156)
Mondays 3:30pm- 4:40pm
Tuesday 8-9:10am
Tuesday 4-5:10pm
Office hours - Thursday 12-2 in Jack's Lounge in BE
Textbook: Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning by Bishop
Please read the attached course syllabus
See the Assignments tab for assignments, reading assignments are currently posted.
Homework 5 now assigned