Any necessary schedule updates will be posted here.
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WEEK / CLASS |
TOPICS |
Due |
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08/25/25 |
Week 1 (class 1) |
Course intro and informal discussion |
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08/27/25 |
Week 1 (class 2) |
Discussion Topic: AI and Education https://www.johnspence.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/The-Fun-They-Had.pdf |
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09/01/25 |
Week 2 (class 3) |
Labor Day – No Class |
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09/03/25 |
Week 2 (class 4) |
Discussion Topic: AI Terminology and Evolving Expectations Slides: Quiz 1 – Terminology |
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09/08/25 |
Week 3 (class 5) |
Discussion Topic: Techno Optimism Lecture 02: Supervised vs. Unsupervised Learning |
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09/10/25 |
Week 3 (class 6) |
Lecture 03: Reinforcement Learning & Interpretability 03 MIS3536-Interpretability.pptx Quiz 2 – Kinds of ML |
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09/15/25 |
Week 4 (class 7) |
Activity 1 – ML Models Discussion (if time permits): |
Assignment 1 (Excel) |
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09/17/25
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Week 4 (class 8) |
Activity 2 – ML Models Supplemental Material: 99-MIS3536-Optional-Material-01.pptx Quiz 3 – Reinforcement Learning & Interpretability |
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09/22/25 |
Week 5 (class 9) |
Lecture 04: Managing Bias |
Assignment 2 (Prompting Literacy) |
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09/24/25
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Week 5 (class 10) |
Activity 3 – Correlation Matrices and Dimension Reduction
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09/29/25
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Week 6 (class 11) |
Discussion: Autumn AI Predictions https://open.spotify.com/episode/5mvStcFSuJ8XQNDyUmdYi6?si=rRqQZ1oUT4iVgJTrWz56kg Activity 4 – Recommender Systems |
Assignment 3 (Python / Anaconda Literacy) |
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10/01/25
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Week 6 (class 12) |
Corrected zip file: ICA-KNN01-fixed.zip Lecture 05: LLMs Quiz 4 – Managing Bias |
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10/06/25
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Week 7 (class 13) |
Activity 5 – Predictive Text Discussion – Can AI think? |
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10/08/25 |
Week 7 (class 14) |
Lecture 06: LLMs Part 2 Quiz 5 – Recommender Systems |
Assignment 4 (Break the Chatbot) |
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10/13/25
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Week 8 (class 15) |
Lecture 07 – AI Cyber |
Assignment 5 (Excel) |
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10/15/25 |
Week 8 (class 16) |
Lecture 08 – Image Generation 08 MIS3536-Artificial-Imagination-Part-1.pptx Quiz 6 – LLMS |
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10/20/25 |
Week 9 (class 17) |
Exam Prep Practice Questions: mis3536-exam-1-practice.pdf |
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10/22/25 |
Week 9 (class 18) |
Mid-term |
Assignment 6 (Excel part 2) |
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10/27/25 |
Week 10 (class 19) |
Lecture 09 – Secure AI |
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10/29/25 |
Week 10 (class 20) |
Discussion – Workers Are Excited About AI Agents https://open.spotify.com/episode/1HVaRofguxOJ83bWIUthpJ?si=377410bbd86a4b99 Quiz 7 — LLMs |
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11/03/25 |
Week 11 (class 21) |
Activity 6 – LLM and Content Generation |
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11/05/25 |
Week 11 (class 22) |
Activity 7 – LLM and Code Generation Quiz 8 – AI + Cybersecurity |
Assignment 7 (Detecting Bias) |
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11/10/25 |
Week 12 (class 23) |
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11/12/25
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Week 12 (class 24) |
Activity-8-Huggingface-and-OCR.docx Quiz 9 – LLM prompting |
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11/17/25 |
Week 13 (class 25) |
Open Lab (Project work and/or work on assignment 10) |
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11/19/25 |
Week 13 (class 26) |
Lecture/Discussion 10 – Ethics and AI with Guest Leora Eisenstadt |
Assignment 8 (AICyber) Assignment 9 (SecureAI) |
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11/24/25 |
Week 14 (class 27) |
THANKSGIVING BREAK |
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11/26/25 |
Week 14 (class 28) |
THANKSGIVING BREAK |
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12/01/25 |
Week 15 (class 29) |
Open Lab |
Assignment 10 (AI-Assisted Coding) |
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12/03/25 |
Week 15 (class 30) |
Project Presentations Project due 11:59 PM 12/5 |
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12/07/25 |
Week 16 (class 31) |
Last Day of class / Exam Prep Quiz 10 – Ethics and AI |
FINAL EXAM – Wed 12/10/25 – 1 to 3pm – ALTER 035
(NOTE THE LOCATION)