Syllabus

This is a rough schedule of topics for each day and the release and due dates for each assignment.

Class topics and homework information may change over the course of the term. Please treat this schedule as a rough guide for seeing what we’ll be focusing on, and expect that there will be shifts as the term progresses.

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Date Assignment/Reading Due Class Topic Assignment Out  
Week 1        
M 3/31 What is AL Prep What is (artificial) life? Slides    
W 4/2 C++ Prep Getting Started and C++, Slides    
F 4/4 Evolutionary Algorithms Evolutionary Algorithm Lab, Slides    
Week 2        
M 4/7   Finishing EA Lab    
W 4/9 Cellular Automata Prep Finding Neighbors CA project  
F 4/11 CA 2 Prep Gradient Lab    
Week 3        
M 4/14 None Peer review of CA projects    
W 4/16 Ecosystem Models Prep, CA project Empirical World Intro AE project  
F 4/18 Artificial Ecologies Continuing Empirical Intro Lab    
Week 4        
M 4/21   Peer review of AE projects Encyclopedia assignment  
W 4/23   Inheritance in C++; worktime    
F 4/25 AE project; Digital Evolution Prep Signal-GP Lite Lab DE project  
Week 5        
M 4/28 Configuration Preparation Using Empirical Configuration    
W 4/30 Encyclopedia topic Catch up/Work time    
F 5/2 None DE Project help time    
Week 6        
M 5/5   Mid-term Break!    
W 5/7 DE project, group preference form Project introduction;Peer review of DE projects Project proposal  
F 5/9   Guest Speaker: Dr. Alexander Lalejini    
Week 7        
M 5/12 Encyclopedia first drafts; Peer review of encyclopedia drafts    
W 5/14 Project topic checkin; Git Prep GitHub    
F 5/16 Project proposal Proposal peer review Final project  
Week 8        
M 5/19 Data Collection Prep Empirical Data Lab    
W 5/21 Encyclopedia second drafts Graphing Data    
F 5/23   TBD    
Week 9        
M 5/26   Guest Speaker: Dr. Matthew A. Moreno    
W 5/28 Replication reports Sharing reports    
F 5/30   Guest Speaker: Dr. Emily Dolson    
Week 10        
M 6/2 Guest Speaker: Dr. Lisa Soros      
W 6/4   Final project; Wrap up; course evaluations    
Exam Period        
  Nothing scheduled, projects due 6/9 8:30pm (+1 hour grace period)      
    Any request for an extension must go through the Dean of Students office as I am not otherwise permitted to consider work submitted after this time.