Recommended Textbooks
- Mitchell, Tom M. Machine Learning. WCB/McGraw-Hill, Boston, MA, 1997. Website: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mitchell/ftp/mlbook.html
- James, Gareth, Witten, Daniela, Hastie, Trevor, and Tibshirani, Robert. An Introduction to Statistical Learning (with Applications in R). Faller-Verlang, 2013. Website: https://www.statlearning.com
- Hastie, Trevor, Tibshirani, Robert, and Friedman, Jerome. The Elements of Statistical Learning. Faller-Verlang, 2009. Website: https://hastie.su.domains/ElemStatLearn/
- Goodfellow, Ian, Bengio, Yoshua, and Courville, Aaron. Deep Learning. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2016. Website: http://www.deeplearningbook.org/
Handouts
Readings for October 11: Real-World Machine Learning Tasks
- Bult, L. February 21, 2024. "Can AI help us predict extreme weather". Vox. URL: https://www.vox.com/videos/2024/2/21/24079271/ai-predict-extreme-weather-forecast
- Bassett, A. November 14, 2023. "Is AI the answer to sustainable farming?". The Verge. URL: https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/14/23950666/ai-sustainable-farming-machine-learning-agriculture
- Veltman, C. November 3, 2023. "New tools help artists fight AI by directly disrupting the systems". NPR URL: https://www.npr.org/2023/11/03/1210208164/new-tools-help-artists-fight-ai-by-directly-disrupting-the-systems
- Swenson, A., Merica, D., & Burke, G. June 17, 2024. "AI experimentation is high risk, high reward for low-profile political campaigns". AP. URL: https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-local-races-deepfakes-2024-1d5080a5c916d5ff10eadd1d81f43dfd
- Discussion Prompts
- Reflection Assignment (Due 10/18; Extension through Fall Break)
Readings for November 20: Biases and Machine Learning
- Castro, D. September 10, 2014. "The Rise of Data Poverty in America". URL: http://www2.datainnovation.org/2014-data-poverty.pdf
- Dzieza, J. June 20, 2023. "AI is a lot of work". New York Magazine. URL: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-humans-technology-business-factory.html
- Levi, R. & Gorenstein, D. June 6, 2023. "AI in medicine needs to be carefully deployed to counter bias - and not entrench it". NPR. URL: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/06/06/1180314219/artificial-intelligence-racial-bias-health-care
- Birkeland, B. June 22, 2024. "In writing the country's most sweeping AI law, Colorado focused on fairness, preventing bias". NPR. URL: https://www.npr.org/2024/06/22/nx-s1-4996582/artificial-intelligence-law-against-discrimination-hiring-colorado
- Discussion Prompts
- Reflection Assignment (Due 11/27)