ECE/ME 578
NEURAL NETWORKS DESIGN
(Boise Spring schedule and to get enrolled...)
http://husky.engboi.uidaho.edu/ee578s05

Spring 2005

class period: 5:00-8:00pm pst (6:00-9:00pm mst)
office hours: 3:00-5:00pm pst (4:00-6:00pm mst)

Offered:  In Boise (live - room B1) & Moscow (through compressed video - room Ed103).


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Catalog data:
ECE 578 Neural Network Design (3 cr). Same as ME 578. Introduction to neural networks and problems that can be solved by their application; introduction of basic neural network architectures; learning rules are developed for training these architectures to perform useful functions; various training techniques employing the learning rules discussed and applied; neural networks used to solve pattern recognition and control system problems. Prereq: perm. 
This course was offered last time in Fall 2003: http://husky.engboi.uidaho.edu/ee578/
 Instructor:
Milos Manic, Ph.D.
University of Idaho
CoEG Graduate Center at Boise
New address: Idaho Water Center (IWC)
322 East Front Street, Suite 242, Boise, ID 83702, USA. .
misko@uidaho.edu
http://www.cs.uidaho.edu/~milosm/
ph. 208-364-4939 (direct phone)
fax: 208-364-3160 
Outreach Program ph. (800) 824-2889
Boise Center 866-264-7384 (toll free)

 

Important links:
  • To get enrolled:
    • If you are already enrolled with the UofI, you should be able to register for the class using banner (http://max.csrv.uidaho.edu/).
    • For non-degree admissions locally, please contact Miki Kurosawa (mikik@uidaho.edu) at: 364-4050.
    • You can also contact Graduate Admissions in Moscow at: 208-885-4001 or instructor.
  • Schedule
    • UofI Registrar schedule: http://www.uidaho.edu/schedule/ (course time schedule, specifics on course number, section, etc. - select UofI Boise, Spring 2005 and choose ECE from left hand side menu).
  • UofI Registrar General Catalog,
  • UofI Academic Calendars
  • EO online student forms (for registration, incompletes, change status, etc.): Go to the Engineering Outreach Online Forms System at: https://www.sites.uidaho.edu/eo/. There are links to each of the online forms at the bottom of the page. Click on the link to the appropriate form, enter the required information and submit the form. It will go to EO's registration coordinator, who will then process the request.
  • Access Directory: http://www.access.uidaho.edu
  • Academic Assistance Programs: http://www.webs.uidaho.edu/aap/


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References:
Textbook is not required but recommended (Schalkoff). I am aware of high prices of books, plus none of the books is sufficiently extensive to cover all the material from the course. However, these are the recommendations of books that I find very useful to have, if possible.
  • Robert J. Schalkoff, "Artificial Neural Networks" co-published by MIT Press and the McGraw-Hill Companies 1997, ISBN: 0-07-057118-X.
  • J. M. Zurada, "Introduction to Artificial Neural Systems" - West Publishing Company 1992, ISBN: 0-314-93391-3.
  • M. Hagan, H. Demuth, M. Beale, “Neural Network Design”, PWS Publishing Company 1995, ISBN: 0-534-94332-2.


Related more towards applications:
  • ed. by Ian Cloete & Jacek M. Zurada, “Knowledge-Based Neurocomputing”, The MIT Press, 2000, ISBN: 0-262-03274-0.
  • ed. by Emile Aarts, J.K.Lenstra, "Local Search In Combinatorial Optimization", John Wiley & Sons, 1998, ISBN: 0-471-948-225.
  • ed. by D.B. Fogel, C.J. Robinson, "Computational Intelligence", John Wiley & Sons, IEEE Press, ISBN: 0-471-27454-2.

 

For your paper, you can start searching from here.



Possible sources for textbook on internet:


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Software download  



Class notes click here
At the end of the course, please complete the evaluation for this course at: http://max.csrv.uidaho.edu/

Homework & Exam assignments click here
Homework should be sent to misko@uidaho.edu with the subject: "[ECE578] HW1 Family_name" for homework number 1, "[ECE578] HW2 Family_name" for homework number 2, etc. Attachments in doc, PDF, or ps format are welcome.



Questions

FAQs page here.

SUBJECT LINE: Please, use [ECE578] Family_name Question. I might be receiving over 100 emails a day. If you do not want yours to get lost, please always double check your subject line. If urgent response is needed, please use [ECE578] URGENT Family_name Question.

SIGNATURE: Please, sign your email with Family_name, First_name Middle_name, Stud_ID: xxx-xxxxx, cv|live. Some of the names are fairly similar, and this way we will avoid confusion and facilitate faster correspondence.

 

Grades

IMPORTANT: To be assigned a password, send me an email to misko@uidaho.edu with following information: full name, student ID, email, and mailing address that you want to be used for sending graded assignments.
NOTE: Please be aware that the correct mailing address needs to be updated on Banner too! Also, please note that starting July 1, 2003, the only official email account is your VandalMail account.

You can check your grades here.

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