N. Nilsson, Introduction to Machine Learning , unpublished draft. A Modern Approach , Prentice-Hall, 1995. A Logical Approach , Oxford University Press, 1998. A small number of assignments that will involve reading current research papers or implementing and experimenting with some simple machine learning algorithms. There will also be a course project.
Students are free to choose the topic of their project, subject to the approval of the instructor.
This list will be expanded with more specific pointers as the course progresses.