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Module Code Title Lecturer Author/Title Number of Students Year Term
GI01 Supervised Learning John Shawe-Taylor Text Book 1: The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference and Prediction, Hastie.T., Tibshirani.R., and Friedman.J., Springer [2001] 20 MSc 1
GI01 Supervised Learning John Shawe-Taylor Reference Book 1: Pattern Classification, Duda.R.O., Hart.P.E., and Stork.D.G., John Wiley and Sons (2001) 20 MSc 1
GI01 Supervised Learning John Shawe-Taylor Reference Book 2: Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, Bishop, Christopher M., Springer (2006) 20 MSc 1
GI01 Supervised Learning John Shawe-Taylor Reference Book 3: An Introduction to Support Vector Machines, Shawe-Taylor J. and Cristianini N., Cambridge University Press (2000) 20 MSc 1
GI01 Supervised Learning John Shawe-Taylor Reference Book 4: Kernel Methods for Pattern Analysis, Shawe-Taylor.J, and Cristianini N., Cambridge University Press (2004) 20 MSc 1
GI06 Evolutionary Systems Mark Herbster An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms Melanie Mitchell. Mit Press. 1998. ISBN 0262631857 10 MSc 2
GI07 Mathematical Programming and Research Methods Mark Herbster (Part A) TBC (Part B) Mastering MATLAB 6: A Comprehensive Tutorial and Reference by Duane Hanselman and Bruce R. Littlefield, Prentice Hall, The Mathematica Book, Stephen Wolfram, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-64314-7. 30 MSc 1 (Programming Issues) and 2 [Experimental Design)
GI07 Mathematical Programming and Research Methods Mark Herbster (Part A) TBC (Part B) The Definitive Guide to Project Management, Sebastian Nokes et al, Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2003 ISBN 0 273 66397 6 30 MSc 1 (Programming Issues) and 2 [Experimental Design)
GI07 Mathematical Programming and Research Methods Mark Herbster (Part A) TBC (Part B) The Mythical Man-Month, Fredrick P Brooks, Addison-Wesley, 1995 Anniversary edition, Addison -Wesley ISBN 0 201 83595 9 30 MSc 1 (Programming Issues) and 2 [Experimental Design)
GI07 Mathematical Programming and Research Methods Mark Herbster (Part A) TBC (Part B) Leading Change, John P. Kotter, Harvard business School Press, 1996 ISBN 0 87584 747 1 30 MSc 1 (Programming Issues) and 2 [Experimental Design)
GI07 Mathematical Programming and Research Methods Mark Herbster (Part A) TBC (Part B) Agile Software Development Ecosystems, Jim Highsmith, Addison-Wesley, 2002 ISBN 0 201 76043 6 30 MSc 1 (Programming Issues) and 2 [Experimental Design)
GI07 Mathematical Programming and Research Methods Mark Herbster (Part A) TBC (Part B) In addition during the course you will be provided with both printed copies and references for research articles. 30 MSc 1 (Programming Issues) and 2 [Experimental Design)
GI08 Graphical Models David Barber D.J.C. MacKay: Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms. Cambridge University Press 15 MSc 1
GI08 Graphical Models David Barber Christopher M. Bishop: Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning. Springer (2006) 15 MSc 1
GI08 Graphical Models David Barber D. Barber: Machine Learning: a probabilistic approach (click on 'lecture notes', below) 15 MSc 1
GI09 Intelligent Systems in Business David Barber To be notified as the course progresses, according to the business themes covered 20-30 MSc 2
GI10 IS in Bioinformatics David Jones Kevin Bryson Biochemistry - Lubert Stryer, WH Freeman and Co. 10-20 MSc 2
GI10 IS in Bioinformatics David Jones Kevin Bryson Post-genome Informatics, M. Kanehisa, Oxford University Press. 10-20 MSc 2
GI10 IS in Bioinformatics David Jones Kevin Bryson Bioinformatics - Genes, Proteins and Computers, C.A. Orengo, D.T. Jones and J.M. Thornton, BIOS Scientific Publishers, 2003 10-20 MSc 2
GI10 IS in Bioinformatics David Jones Kevin Bryson Mathematical Biology, J.D. Murray, Springer, 1993. 10-20 MSc 2
GI10 IS in Bioinformatics David Jones Kevin Bryson Other references (including research papers) to be confirmed. 10-20 MSc 2
GI13 Advanced Topics in Machine Learning John Shawe-Taylor Massimiliano Pontil Brian Wandell, Foundations of Vision ( http://www.sinauer.com/detail.php?id=8532 ) 20-30 MSc 2
GI13 Advanced Topics in Machine Learning John Shawe-Taylor Massimiliano Pontil C.M. Bishop: Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning. (Springer, 2006) 20-30 MSc 2
GI13 Advanced Topics in Machine Learning John Shawe-Taylor Massimiliano Pontil Carl E. Rasmussen and C.K.I. Williams: Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning (MIT Press, 2006) 20-30 MSc 2
GI13 Advanced Topics in Machine Learning John Shawe-Taylor Massimiliano Pontil You should thoroughly review the maths in the cribsheet provided at the link below before the start of the module. The Matrix Cookbook is also a very helpful resource. 20-30 MSc 2
GI13 Advanced Topics in Machine Learning John Shawe-Taylor Massimiliano Pontil D.J.C. MacKay: Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms. (Cambridge University Press, 2003) 20-30 MSc 2
GI15 Information Retrieval Jun Wang Introduction to Information Retrieval, Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan and Hinrich Schütze, Cambridge University Press. 2008. 15 MSc 2
GI15 Information Retrieval Jun Wang Modern Information Retrieval (MIR)(errata), Ricardo Baeza-Yates and Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, Addison-Wesley, 2000. 15 MSc 2
GI15 Information Retrieval Jun Wang Managing Gigabytes (2nd Ed.) Ian H. Witten, Alistair Moffat and Timothy C. Bell. (1999), Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco, California. 15 MSc 2
GI15 Information Retrieval Jun Wang Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, Christopher M. Bishop, Springer (2006). 15 MSc 2
GI16 Approximate Inference and Learning in Probabilistic Models Maneesh Sahani (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit) YeeWhye Teh (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit) There is no required textbook. However, the following in an excellent sources for many of the topics covered here. David J.C. MacKay (2003) Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms, Cambridge University Press. (also available online) 5-10 MSc 1
GI17 Affective Computing and Human-Robot Interaction Nadia Berthouze TBC 15 MSc 2
GI18 Probabilistic and Unsupervised Learning Maneesh Sahani (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit) YeeWhye Teh (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit) There is no required textbook. However, the following in an excellent sources for many of the topics covered here. David J.C. MacKay (2003) Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms, Cambridge University Press. (also available online) 5-10 MSc 1
GI99 Individual Project Various academic staff supervisors. Co-ordinator = Mark Herbster Books, papers, manuals etc. relevant to the project. 20-30 MSc 2-3 and summer
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