CS 540: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Fall 2011 Exams 

Examinations: 
Midterm Exam: Wednesday, October 26, 7:15pm - 9:15pm, Noland 168.
Closed book.  Bring a calculator.  One 8.5x11 sheet of paper with notes on both 
sides allowed.  Covers topics in first half of the course, including readings, 
lectures and assignments.  However, the following topics are excluded:
the papers on SVMs, Bayes Networks, and HMMs; SVM optimization; Bayes net approximate 
inference by sampling and CPT learning; neural network back propagation; Hidden 
Markov Models.  You are responsible for topics covered in the readings, 
except those explicitly excluded, even if they were not covered in class or in the 
lecture notes.  You may keep your one-page notes and the end of the exam.

Final Exam: Wednesday, December 21, 12:25p.m. - 2:25p.m., Computer Science 1221.
Cumulative. Closed book.  Bring a calculator.  One 8.5x11 sheet of paper with notes 
on both sides allowed.  Lectures and readings on the syllabus page are required, with 
a few exceptions (to be posted before the exam). 
You are responsible for topics covered in lecture even if there are no lecture notes on the topic. 
You should have knowledge sufficient to work through simple examples.  Guest lectures will not be 
covered in the exam.
Exam grading questions must be raised with the instructor within one week after it is returned.

Academic Integrity: 

All examinations, programming assignments, and written homeworks must be done
individually.  Cheating and plagiarism will be dealt with in accordance with
University procedures (see the UW-Madison Academic Misconduct Rules and Procedures).
Hence, for example, code for programming assignments must not be developed in
groups, nor should code be shared.  You are encouraged to discuss with your peers,
the TA or the instructors ideas, approaches and techniques broadly, but not
at a level of detail where specific implementation issues are described by anyone.
If you have any questions on this, ask the instructor before you act.

Exam Archives: 

(Note the exam format, scope and order of topics might be different.)
  Fall 11 midterm (with solution) 
  Fall 10 final (with solution) 
  Fall 10 midterm (with solution) 
  Fall 09 final (with solution) 
  Fall 09 midterm | Answers
  Fall 08 final
  Fall 08 midterm
  Fall 06 final
  Fall 06 midterm | Answers
  Fall 05 final
  Fall 05 midterm | Answers
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