CS361 Artificial Life and Digital Evolution S25 Schedule
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 | |
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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 | Read about CA project, Week 2 Checkin | Finishing EA Lab, Slides | ||
W 4/9 | Cellular Automata Prep | Finding Neighbors, Slides | CA project | |
F 4/11 | CA 2 Prep | Gradient Lab, Slides | ||
Week 3 | ||||
M 4/14 | Inheritance Prep | Inheritance in C++ Slides | ||
W 4/16 | Ecosystem Models Prep, CA project | Empirical World Intro, Slides | AE project | |
F 4/18 | Artificial Ecologies | Continuing Empirical Intro Lab, Slides | ||
Week 4 | ||||
M 4/21 | Avida-Ed Prep | Peer review of AE projects; Avida-Ed | Encyclopedia assignment | |
W 4/23 | Data Collection Prep | Empirical Data Lab | ||
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 | TBD | |||
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. |