Class Schedule for CS 442: Social Computing and Collective Intelligence
- January 17: Introduction
Handout 1: Course
Information (updated 20 February 2012)
Assignment
1: Due 19 January 2012
- January 19: Overview
Reading Assignment: Infotopia, Introduction and Chapter 1,
due 16 February 2012
- January 24: Overview: Emerging Directions
- January 26: Collective intelligence in animals
- January 31: Yotam Gingold, Micro Perceptual Human
Computation for Visual Tasks
- February 2: Michael Lesk, Collaborative Filtering
- February 7: Amazon Mechanical Turk, Part 1
- February 9: Amazon Mechanical Turk, Part 2
Assignment 2: Due 16 February 2012
- February 14: Internet Search Engines
- February 16: Infotopia: Introduction, Chapter 1
Reading Assignment: Infotopia, Chapter 3,
due 23 February 2012
Assignment 3: Due 21 February 2012
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- February 21: Continuation of earlier topics
- February 23: Infotopia: Chapter 2
Reading Assignment: Infotopia, Chapter 3,
due 1 March 2012
Assignment 4: Due 6 March 2012
- March 1: Infotopia: Chapter 3
- March 6: Mining social media
- March 8: Prediction markets
- March 20: Human Computation: Chapters 1 and 2
Project
1: Due 3 April 2012
- March 20: Infotopia: Chapter 3
Project
1: Due 3 April 2012
- March 27: Human Computation: Chapter 3
- March 27: Human Computation: Chapter 3
- April 5: Sentiment Mining
Project
2: Due 7 May 2012
- April 10: Infotopia Chapter 6
- April 12: Human Computation: Chapter 4
- April 17: Human Computation: Chapter 5
Assignment 5: Due 26 April 2012
- April 19: Live broadcast from Collective Intelligence 2012
- April 24: Human Computation: Chapter 6
- April 26: Looking Back and Ahead
Last update: 17 April 2012