May 5, 2012
Comments for the May 3 exam (Section 2) are now available.
May 3, 2012
I am posting my own answers for the questions on the final exam, and some comments. Answers and comments for Section 1, May 1, are posted already. Comments for the May 3 exam will be posted soon.
April 20, 2012
I have posted notes from the in-class review sessions. For now there are notes only from Thursday's class. More will be added after next Tuesday.
You can access the notes from the list of sample questions for Exam 2.
April 4, 2012
Comments on Assignment 5 have been posted. The comments concerning hypothesis testing are important for other reasons - Notably, Assignment 6, and your term paper.
March 30, 2012
Another change in due dates. The date for a progress report on the term paper has been pushed back to April 12.
March 26, 2012
I have made an important change in the schedule for next week. I'd like you to read the assignments for the Morality special topic by Tuesday (not Thursday), since I plan to be ready to discuss the topic by then.
March 20, 2012
I have posted some comments on Assignment 4. I hope to have grades completed later today.
The Cognitive Science program is co-sponsoring an invited talk in Romance Languages on April 13. It may be of interest to any student who is interested in linguistics or in bilingualism. Here are the details.
March 13, 2012
Three of the remaining due dates have been changed. Assignment 4 is now due on Saturday. Due dates for preliminary versions of your term paper have been pushed back.
March 1, 2012
It will take me several days to grade the midterm exam. In the meantime, however, I posted my own answers and some explanations for the questions.
February 26, 2012
Another source of grade credit is class participation. Up to 40 points are available that way. I assigned up to 15 points so far, based on the following criteria:
- First, of course, have you been in class?
- Have you answered my questions when asked directly?
- Have you volunteered answers to my open questions?
- Have you offered pertinent comments or questions at other times?
Since this is a source of credit that requires little beyond doing the assigned reading, it should not be ignored.
February 24, 2012
It will take me a day or two to grade the answers to Assignment 3. In the meantime, though, I posted some general comments.
February 15, 2012
Grades for Assignment 2 were supposed to have been posted last Friday, but apparently Sakai failed to comply for some students. I re-released them. If you did see your score previously, please try again. If it's still not there, let me know.
February 11, 2012
I have compiled a few of the answers to Assignment 2 that I thought were very good. Looking at these may help to explain what I was looking for in an answer.
January 31, 2012
You are invited to participate in a study being conducted by a Ph.D. student in economics. Participants can win one of ten $100 cash prizes. The study concerns students' purchases of textbooks. You can find more information, and a link to the survey, at survey.html.
January 26, 2012
I am slowly working through the answers to Assignment 1. In the meantime, I added some general comments to the Assignments page on the course web site. My comments on each answer will be rather brief, so you should look at the general comments for more complete feedback.
January 24, 2012
I have received a couple of questions about Assignment 1 that might be of general interest. I have posted the questions, and my answers, on Sakai in the discussion forum.
January 18, 2012
In case the textbooks do not arrive in time, here is a PDF copy of the last part of Chapter 2.
Would you like to talk to ELIZA? Here's a link (one among many). See if you can figure out the algorithms she is using.
January 13, 2012
For students in Section 2, I have made PDF copies of key parts of Chapters 1 and 2, to give you something to do until the textbooks arrive. You can find them at Chapter 1 and Chapter 2. No excuses now!
January 10, 2012
Note that there are required readings for most class periods. It's important that you keep up with the readings.
Sakai Portal. This web site is part of the UNC Sakai Project. You must use the Sakai portal to submit assignments, and you can find information there about your grade. If you have questions about the course material, you may post them in the discussion forum and I'll provide an answer (if I can!)