| Instructor | Professor Leslie Kaelbling (lpk at csail.mit.edu) Office Hours: email to make an appointment |
| Teaching Assistants | Kenzie MacIsaac (macisaac at csail.mit.edu) Office Hours: Tuesdays 9:30am-11:30am Room 32-G540 (or the lounge outside G540) John Barnett (barnett at csail.mit.edu) Mondays 3-5pm, 32-G496 (or lounge outside) Luke Zettlemoyer (lsz at csail.mit.edu) Fridays 4-6pm, 32-G585 (or lounge near the elevators) |
| Staff mailing list | 6867-staff@csail.mit.edu |
| Syllabus | |
| Prerequisites | 6.041, programming ability |
| Requirements |
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| Textbook | The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference and Prediction Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, Jerome Friedman |
| Supplementary texts |
Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition Christopher M. Bishop Pattern Classification Richard O. Duda, Peter E. Hart, David G. Stork All of Statistics Larry Wasserman (good frequentist and review) Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms Free Online! David J. C. MacKay (good Bayes chapters) |
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