CS 3243 - Foundations of Artificial Intelligence

(Updated Sat Dec 20 14:24:45 GMT-8 2003)

The grading for this class will comprise of the following continuous assessment milestones and a final exam.

Description	Percentage
Midterm	25%
Homework #1	15%
Homework #2	20%
Final Exam	40%

Although attendance and participation will not tabulated, you are required to come to tutorial. Class and tutorial participation can only help your grade; it will not be held against you. Students who participate substantially during lecture, tutorial and/or IVLE forum will have their grades rounded upward a half letter grade, if their grades are borderline.

Participation is very helpful for your teaching staff too. Without it, we have very little idea whether you understand the material that we've presented or whether it's too difficult or trivial. Giving feedback in the form of questions, discussion provides us with a better idea of what topics you enjoy and which you are not too keen on.

Academic Honesty Policy

(Updated Thu Jul 24 14:15:05 GMT-8 2003)

Collaboration is a very good thing. Students are encouraged to work together and to teach each other. The extra-credit programming homework will require a team effort in which everyone is expected to contribute.

On the other hand, cheating is considered a very serious offense. Please don't do it! Concern about cheating creates an unpleasant environment for everyone.

So how do you draw the line between collaboration and cheating? Here's a reasonable set of ground-rules. Failure to understand and follow these rules will constitute cheating, and will be dealt with as per University guidelines. We will be policing the policy vigorously.

You should already be familiar with the University's academic code. If you haven't yet, read it now.

The Gilligan's Island Rule: This rule says that you are free to meet with fellow students(s) and discuss assignments with them. Writing on a board or shared piece of paper is acceptable during the meeting; however, you may not take any written (electronic or otherwise) record away from the meeting. This applies when the assignment is supposed to be an individual effort. After the meeting, engage in a half hour of mind-numbing activity (like watching an episode of Gilligan's Island -- an old American T.V. show, just in case you haven't heard of it), before starting to work on the assignment. This will assure that you are able to reconstruct what you learned from the meeting, by yourself, using your own brain.
The Freedom of Information Rule: To assure that all collaboration is on the level, you must always write the name(s) of your collaborators on your assignment. Failure to adequately acknowledge your contributors is at best a lapse of professional etiquette, and at worst it is plagiarism. Plagiarism is a form of cheating.
The No-Sponge Rule: In intra-team collaboration where the group, as a whole, produces a single "product", each member of the team must actively contribute. Members of the group have the responsibility (1) to not tolerate anyone who is putting forth no effort (being a sponge) and (2) to not let anyone who is making a good faith effort "fall through a crack" (to help weaker team members come up to speed so they can contribute). We want to know about dysfunctional group situations as early as possible. To encourage everyone to participate fully, we make sure that every student is given an opportunity to explain and justify their group's approach.

This section on academic honesty is adapted from Surendar Chandra's course at the University of Georgia, who in turn acknowledges Prof. Carla Ellis and Prof. Amin Vahdat at Duke University for his policy formulation. The Gilligan's Island rule origin is uncertain, but at least can be traced back to Prof. Dymond at York University's use of it in 1984.

Late Submissions

All programming and homework assignments are due to IVLE by 11:59:59 pm (Singapore time) on the due date. No exceptions without a medical certificate will be made. The following penalties will apply for late submissions:

late within 10 minutes: 5% reduction in grade;
late within 1 hour: 10% reduction in grade;
late within 24 hours: 30% reduction in grade;
late within 3 days: 50% reduction in grade;
late within a week: 70% reduction in grade;
after one week: zero mark.

Min-Yen Kan <kanmy@comp.nus.edu.sg> Created on: Mon Dec 1 19:36:22 2003 | Version: 1.0 | Last modified: Thu Jan 15 22:53:45 2004

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