NPTEL

Video Course on Machine Learning

Professor Carl Gustaf Jansson, KTH

Week 1 Introduction to the

Machine Learning course

Video 1.5 Tutorial for Week 1

Assignments

Group 1 - questions based on video lectures

Group 2 - questions based on extra material

Group 1
Question 1 What was the name of Oliver Selfridge´s pioneer architecture for recognition of images as published
in 1959? 1. PANDORA 2. PANGEA 3. PANDEMONIUM

Question 2 Which researcher is known for having made the first implementation of an artificial neural network
in 1956? 1. JOHN HOLLAND 2. MARVIN MINSKY 3. IRWIN SHAW

Question 3 On which lcalculus did John McCarthy base the LISP programming language?
1. FUNCTIONAL CALCULUS 2. DIFFERENTIAL CALCULUS 3. LAMBDA CALCULUS

Question 4 Newell and Simon made two pioneer contributions to early Artificial Intelligence (1955 and 1959
respectively). Name one of the two systems that they created.
1. LOGIC THEORIST 2 LOGIC PLANNER 3. ARTIFICIAL THEORIST

Question 5 What was the name of Solmonoffs first contribution in 1957 to what he later named non semantic
machine learning?
1. INDUCTIVE LEARNER 2. INDUCTIVE INFERENCE MACHINE 3. INDUCTIVE ENGINE
Readings needed for group II assignment questions

1. Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitt, "A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity“.
In: Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics Vol 5,
http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~coquand/AUTOMATA/mcp.pdf

2. A. M. Turing, 1950, Computing Machinery and Intelligence. Mind 49.

https://www.csee.umbc.edu/courses/471/papers/turing.pdf

3. John McCartey, 1955, A proposal for the Dartmouth summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence´.
https://web.archive.org/web/20080930164306/http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/dartmouth/dartmouth.html

4. Arthur Samuel,1959,´Some Studies in Machine Learning Using the Game of Checkers´, IBM Journal. 3 (3).
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.368.2254&rep=rep1&type=pdf

5. Frank Rosenblatt,1957, ´The perceptron, a perceiving and recognizing automaton´ Project Para,Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory
https://blogs.umass.edu/brain-wars/files/2016/03/rosenblatt-1957.pdf
Group 2
Question 1 In the paper by McCulloch and Pitt, the authors choose a logical calculus for their model
of neuron activity. What was the name of the Logician that had defined the specific kind of symbolic
logic choosen? 1. CARNAP 2. CANTOR 3. GÖDEL

Question 2 In the paper by Turing, he has a section which is of relevance for Machine Learning.
How does he name that section?
2. INFERENCE MACHINES 2. LEARNING MACHINES 3. LEARNING COMPUTERS

Question 3 In the proposal for the Darthmouth Summer School, two sections were specially relevant
for Machine Learning. Name one of these sections?
1. NEURON NETS 2. NEURAL NETS 3. NEURAL LEARNING

Question 4 In the paper by Samuel, he describes two learning procedures. Name one of these
procedures? 1. BOOTSTRAP LEARNING 2. THEORY LEARNING 3. ROTE LEARNING

Question 5 In the paper by Rosenblatt, the first instance of his percepton has a specific name based
on his chosen application area. What was the name?
1. PROTOPERCEPTRON 2. PHOTOPERCEPTRON 3. VOICEPERCEPTRON
NPTEL

Video Course on Machine Learning

Professor Carl Gustaf Jansson, KTH

Thanks for your attention!

The next week of the course will have

the following theme:

Characterization of Learning Problems