Last updated 3 December 1999 (added: quite a lot of lecture notes, and a new link) LSS.

This page is for the 31Y7 half-course option entitled "Biologically Inspired Computing". This half course is run by Dr. Leslie Smith, and will have two guest lectures from Dr Catherine Breslin.
 
 

Index

1. Syllabus
2. Lecture Notes
3. Lecture Times
1. Lecture time alterations
4. Tutorial Times
5. Useful Links

Syllabus

Lecture Notes

Lecture 1 (lss) 26 October 1999
Lecture 2 (cjb) 2 November 1999
Lecture 3 (cjb) 4 November 1999
Lecture 4 (lss) 5 November 1999
Lecture 5 part 1 (pdf), part 2 (ps)(lss) 9 November 1999
(Note: the lecture notes below are .ps files. They are also NOT complete records of what was covered in the lectures)
Lecture 6 11 Nov 1999
Lecture 7 16 Nov 1999
Lecture 8 17 Nov 1999
Lecture 9 18 Nov 1999
Lecture 10 19 Nov 1999
Lecture 11 23 Nov 1999
Lecture 12 26 November 1999
Lecutres 13-15 (last) are on Genetic Algorithms. No electronic version of these lectures exists.

Lecture Times

The first lecture is on Tuesday 26 October; the following one being on Tuesday 2 November.
 

Lecture time alterations

Tutorial Times

Useful links

1. A list of references.
2. Some exercises using perceptrons and the Delta rule.
3. An introduction to neural networks (by LSS)
4. Some references on Genetic Algorithms (Edinburgh University)

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