DIVISION OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCES
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
CS 282. Probabilistic Reasoning
MW 1:00-2:30 or 2:30-4:00
MW 323
Instructor
| Name |
Email |
Telephone |
Office Hours |
| Avi Pfeffer |
avi@eecs.harvard.edu |
496-1876 |
Tu, 2-4pm, Maxwell Dworkin 251 |
If you are unable to make the instructor's office hours, please
send email to make an appointment.
Syllabus
Announcements:
There will be two sections for this class, both in MD 323. The first
will be MW 1:00-2:30, and the second MW 2:30-4:00.
Find out what section you are in
here.
Objective Caml and IBAL are now installed on the FAS servers.
To use them, add ~cs282/bin to your path.
If you want to install IBAL yourself, you will first need to install
Objective Caml, available from
the Caml home page.
Then download
the current IBAL distribution and follow the installation
instructions there.
The IBAL distribution will be periodically updated during the
semester. I will announce when that happens.
For now, you will need the sections on "Basic Concepts", "Types and
Data Structures", and "Defining Variables". The tutorial, like
IBAL, is a work in progress. Please let me know if there is anything
you find confusing.
Upcoming readings:
Copies of upcoming readings will usually be available outside my
office, MD 251.
Review: Chapter 3 of my thesis, providing a quick overview of Bayesian
networks.
Mon Sep 23rd: Pearl, "Probabilistic Reasoning for Intelligent
Systems", chapter 3, up to end of 3.2.2.
Wed Sep 25th: Pearl, remainder of chapter 3.
Mon Sep 30th: Pearl, chapter 4 to page 184
Wed Oct 2nd: Pearl, pages 195-210, and Peot & Shachter,
"Fusion and propagation with multiple observations in belief
networks".