COMPSCI 240 (Reasoning Under Uncertainty)

Instructors

Sunghoon (Ivan) Lee and Jie Xiong

Teaching Assistants

TBD

Class

MoWe 2:30PM - 3:45PM HasbAd 20

Discussions

1. Section AA: Fr 01:25 PM - 02:15 PM EnginLb 306

2. Section AB: Fr Fr 12:20 PM - 01:10 PM LederCA301

Office Hour

• Ivan (LGRC A351B): Monday 04:00PM-05:00PM

• Karine (LGRT T220): Tuesday 12:30PM-01:30PM

• Ivan (LGRT T200): Wednesday 01:30PM-02:30PM

Class Webpages

1. This webpage https://people.cs.umass.edu/~silee/cs240/index.html

2. Moodle Moodle is going to be the primary communication platform for this class.

Textbook

1. Required: Introduction to Probability, 2nd Edition by Dimitri P. Bertsekas and John N. Tsitsiklis.

Grading Plan

1. Final 40%

2. Midterm 1 20%

3. Midterm 2 20%

4. Homeworks (total 4) 15%

5. Quiz (total 10-11) 5%

Assignments

Assignments will be posted on Moodle on Mondays. They are due the following Monday. Four homeworks are to be submitted.

• Homework 1 Assignment Date Sept 24, 2018

• Homework 2 Assignment Date Oct 9, 2018

• Homework 3 Assignment Date Oct 29, 2018

• Homework 4 Assignment Date Dec 4, 2018

Homework are to be submitted by 4PM on the deadline at the CS Office Drop Box. Once graded Homework are returned, the students have exactly 1 week to let the instructor/TAs know about any grading dispute/concern. No change in grades will be recorded after one week of returning the homeworks. NO exceptions.

Midterm

Two in-class midterms.

• Midterm 1 Date Oct 10

• Midterm 2 Date Nov 14

Once graded Midterms are returned, the students have exactly 1 week to let the instructors/TAs know about any grading dispute/concern. No change in grades will be recorded after one week of returning the exams. NO exceptions.

Final

Date 12/19/2018, 3:30pm - 5:30pm, Goessmann Laboratory Room 20

Schedule

Course notes will be posted on Moodle