Wed, 12/1, Ferg 112 (regular classroom)<p>
  1. Qing Feng Lin (20 min)
     "Automatic classification of web pages."<p>
  2. Darin Jalas (20 min)
     "Hardware-based genetic algorithms."<p>
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Fri, 12/3, Ferg 112 (regular classroom)<p>
  1. Josh Brown and Yixin Guo (20 min)
     "Application of reinforcement learning techniques to optimization
     of instances of the travelling salesman problem."<p>
  2. John Wise (20 min)
     "Emulating a blue jay's cognitive processes with an ANN."<p>
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Mon, 12/6, Ferg 21<p>
  1. Jon Travis (20 min, incl. demo)
     "Learning a controller for a QuakeBot."<p>
  2. Brad Kratochvil and Jed Pedersen (20 min, incl. demo)
     "Building a better checkers player."<p>
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Wed, 12/8, Ferg 112 (regular classroom)<p>
  1. Deepak Chawla and Lin Li (20 min)
     "Pruning an ensemble of classifiers."<p>
  2. Corey Maley (20 min)
     "Exploring applications of a geometric pattern learner to the
     UC-Irvine dataset."<p>
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Fri, 12/10, Ferg 112 (regular classroom)<p>
  1. Scott Saniuk and Damien Wright (15 min)
     "Using decision trees to predict the next note in a Bach fugue."<p>
  2. Shuguang Yan (15 min)
     "Multi-threshold perceptrons and their applications."<p>
  3. Taotao Yu (20 min)
     "Applying machine learning techniques to analyze microbial
     population dynamics."<p>