CS 7641
Machine Learning
Group Project: Final Package

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Due: April 19, 2008 23:59:59 EST

There will be no late assignments accepted. None. Not one, not even if it is only a minute late. I am not kidding.

Please have one of your group members send this assignment to your TA with the subject line "cs7641finalproject". Please include the names of everyone in your group in the body of the email message.

Why?

In some sense, the whole point of this class was to give you an opportunity to explore a machine learning research project. Given that, we take this assignment very seriously, as should you. Of course, if you haven't up to this point, it is already much too late, but you should try anyway.

What to turn in

We will define gt to be the gt account of one of your group members. It doesn't matter which one, as long as it is the same name you used last time.

You must email the TA a tar or zip file named gt.{zip,tar,tar.gz} that contains a single folder or directory named gt that in turn contains:

  1. The Final Paper. It should be named gt.pdf. The file must be a pdf file and must be in the NIPS 2005 format. This includes the NIPS style, abstract, page count, references. In short you are answering the NIPS 2005 Call for Papers and turning in a conference paper for consideration.

    You should have already turned this in anyway. You will have received reviews by now and should incorporate any changes that make sense into your paper and your work. You should include a document called gt-errata.pdf that outlines the changes from your first submission and your final paper. It should be short.

  2. The Final Presentation. It should be named gt-slides.{ppt,key{.zip},pdf}. You are strongly encouraged to turn in your final presentation in Powerpoint or Keynote. Barring that, please turn in a pdf. Remember: these are the final slides that you will be using for your talk. There will be no last-minute substitutions.

  3. Any supporting material. You may want to keep a local copy of a movie file or run a demo or whatever. That's okay; put those files in your folder. Also, because this is your final chance to turn in everything from your project and convince us that you did work, you might want to include supporting files like code, extra graphs, your data, or whatever.

It is your responsiblity to make sure that the paper and presentation are readable. Your target machine is an Apple OS X Macbook Pro.

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