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So next semester, I'm thinking it's going to be 6.003, 6.004, 6.034, and 24.900. I'm tempted to try to throw some sort of fluffy foofy HASS in there as well 'cause I'm behind one, but I gather 6.003 and 6.004 can get pretty hosing in combination so maybe not so much.
6.003 is Signals and Systems, and currently voted Most Likely to Kick My Ass All Over as it involves all sorts of cracktastic 18.03 (differential equations) stuff. Fundamentals of signal and system analysis, with applications drawn from filtering, audio and image processing, communications, and automatic control. Topics include convolution, Fourier series and transforms, sampling and discrete-time processing of continuous-time signals, modulation, Laplace and Z-transforms, and feedback systems. The professor this spring is allegedly awesome though.
6.004, Computation Structures, has a reputation of being the warmest and fuzziest of the four main EECS courses, the double-ohs. Introduces architecture of digital systems, emphasizing structural principles common to a wide range of technologies. Multilevel implementation strategies; definition of new primitives (e.g., gates, instructions, procedures, and processes) and their mechanization using lower-level elements. Analysis of potential concurrency; precedence constraints and performance measures; pipelined and multidimensional systems. Instruction set design issues; architectural support for contemporary software structures. Will hopefully be interesting and fun.
6.034 - Artificial Intelligence! Introduces representations, techniques, and architectures used to build applied systems and to account for intelligence from a computational point of view. Applications of rule chaining, heuristic search, constraint propagation, constrained search, inheritance, and other problem-solving paradigms. Applications of identification trees, neural nets, genetic algorithms, and other learning paradigms. Speculations on the contributions of human vision and language systems to human intelligence. It's one of the header classes for Computer Science and will also allegedly have a good lecturer this coming term. (And the less horrible pset collection as opposed to the fall.)
24.900, Intro to Linguistics -- I've heard good things and bad things but the material sounds really really interesting to me. Subject studies what is language and what does knowledge of a language consist of. It asks how do children learn languages and is language unique to humans; why are there many languages; how do languages change; is any language or dialect superior to another; and how are speech and writing related. Context for these and similar questions provided by basic examination of internal organization of sentences, words, and sound systems. Assumes no prior training in linguistics. Plus it fulfills a portion of MIT's humanities requirement (it's a HASS-D) and (heh) if I don't start taking care of that the institvte starts to get very unhappy with me. HASS-D classes are lotteried, though, so I may not get into the class and end up having to take something else for this spring... not sure how likely that is.
Other things vaguely under consideration which will probably happen in some later semester: Strobe Lab (because I don't think I could survive any of the 6-1 labs and there is no 6-3 institute lab), 18.06 (a prereq for interesting CS classes), 6.046 (a 6-3 header, and I hear it's awesome), 6.171 (material sounds really useful, I hear it's a really good class, it's only offered in the spring, oh god why aren't I taking this?), entirely too many more.
... and now back to getting through *this* semester.
So next semester, I'm thinking it's going to be 6.003, 6.004, 6.034, and 24.900. I'm tempted to try to throw some sort of fluffy foofy HASS in there as well 'cause I'm behind one, but I gather 6.003 and 6.004 can get pretty hosing in combination so maybe not so much.
6.003 is Signals and Systems, and currently voted Most Likely to Kick My Ass All Over as it involves all sorts of cracktastic 18.03 (differential equations) stuff. Fundamentals of signal and system analysis, with applications drawn from filtering, audio and image processing, communications, and automatic control. Topics include convolution, Fourier series and transforms, sampling and discrete-time processing of continuous-time signals, modulation, Laplace and Z-transforms, and feedback systems. The professor this spring is allegedly awesome though.
6.004, Computation Structures, has a reputation of being the warmest and fuzziest of the four main EECS courses, the double-ohs. Introduces architecture of digital systems, emphasizing structural principles common to a wide range of technologies. Multilevel implementation strategies; definition of new primitives (e.g., gates, instructions, procedures, and processes) and their mechanization using lower-level elements. Analysis of potential concurrency; precedence constraints and performance measures; pipelined and multidimensional systems. Instruction set design issues; architectural support for contemporary software structures. Will hopefully be interesting and fun.
6.034 - Artificial Intelligence! Introduces representations, techniques, and architectures used to build applied systems and to account for intelligence from a computational point of view. Applications of rule chaining, heuristic search, constraint propagation, constrained search, inheritance, and other problem-solving paradigms. Applications of identification trees, neural nets, genetic algorithms, and other learning paradigms. Speculations on the contributions of human vision and language systems to human intelligence. It's one of the header classes for Computer Science and will also allegedly have a good lecturer this coming term. (And the less horrible pset collection as opposed to the fall.)
24.900, Intro to Linguistics -- I've heard good things and bad things but the material sounds really really interesting to me. Subject studies what is language and what does knowledge of a language consist of. It asks how do children learn languages and is language unique to humans; why are there many languages; how do languages change; is any language or dialect superior to another; and how are speech and writing related. Context for these and similar questions provided by basic examination of internal organization of sentences, words, and sound systems. Assumes no prior training in linguistics. Plus it fulfills a portion of MIT's humanities requirement (it's a HASS-D) and (heh) if I don't start taking care of that the institvte starts to get very unhappy with me. HASS-D classes are lotteried, though, so I may not get into the class and end up having to take something else for this spring... not sure how likely that is.
Other things vaguely under consideration which will probably happen in some later semester: Strobe Lab (because I don't think I could survive any of the 6-1 labs and there is no 6-3 institute lab), 18.06 (a prereq for interesting CS classes), 6.046 (a 6-3 header, and I hear it's awesome), 6.171 (material sounds really useful, I hear it's a really good class, it's only offered in the spring, oh god why aren't I taking this?), entirely too many more.
... and now back to getting through *this* semester.
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Date: 2005-11-17 04:51 am (UTC)The person who's teaching it this term is Professor (Norvin) Richards, and he's awesome. I don't know how you'd check who's teaching it next semester. You might wait on the linguistics and try for it when you know he'll be teaching it, if he turns out not to be teaching the Spring semester.
I took somethng like 18.06 last year (at least, it was called Linear Algebra) and it wasn't nearly as scary as 18.03 looks. All matrices and transformations and good stuff like that.
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Date: 2005-11-17 06:07 am (UTC)Linguistics: one of my friends at a liberal-arts school gets to use linguistics for part of her math/science requirement because of the pset-esque analytical thinking aspect, which amuses me no end.
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