CU.578.02  Empirical Methods in Machine Learning
           Rich Caruana & Alex Niculescu
           12/05/02

Final Exam:  
 - Wed Dec 18 9:00-11:30am Phillips 203
 - Open Books, Open Notes
 - No computers or wireless devices
 - Exam covers entire course with emphasis on recent material

Optional 4th Make-Up Assignment:
 - For those who did poorly on a previous assignment
 - New grade for worst homework is 0.75*HW4 + 0.25*HW?
 - Most people should not do this
 - Assignment is agglomerative clustering

Final Project:
 - Predictions officially due by email Sat Dec 7
 - Email predictions to both alexn at cs cornell edu *and*
   caruana@cs.cornell.edu
 - Email should have three attachments
 - Names of group members should be in each attached file
 - Will not start assessing late points until 5pm Wed Dec 11
 - Extra Credit if turned in early
 - Final reports will not be accepted after 3pm Mon Dec 16
 - Can give reports to Cindy Robinson in Upson 4146 1:30-3:30pm 
   any day
 - Note: it is OK to take the average of different kinds of models,
   e.g., to average a neural net's predictions with a decision tree's
   predictions

Good Luck!  Thanks for making the course a success.  -Rich.