Schedule

Please note that the following schedule is tentative and subject to change. Supplemental reading, where listed, is optional and not required; you can use it as a supplement if you need another perspective on a topic or would like to read more in-depth.

Week	Date	Topic	Due
1	Tu 8/24	Intro to Algorithms in the Real World [slides][recording]
	Th 8/26	Crash Course Review Data Structures and Algorithms [slides] [recording]
2	Tu 8/31	Huffman Compression [slides] [supplemental reading] [recording]	Course Survey
	Th 9/2	Mini-Project Brainstorming [slides] [groups] [recording]
3	Tu 9/7	Lossy Compression [slides] [supplemental reading] [recording]	HW1
	Th 9/9	Compression and Streaming [slides] [supplemental reading] [recording]
4	Tu 9/14	Routing Algorithms: Dijkstra's to A* [slides] [supplemental reading] [recording]	HW2
	Th 9/16	Real World Routing [slides] [recording]
5	Tu 9/21	Mini-Project Presentations Part 1	Mini-Project
	Th 9/23	Mini-Project Presentations Part 2
6	Tu 9/28	Pagerank and Web Search [slides] [supplemental reading] [recording]	HW3 Project Survey
	Th 9/30	More on Web Search [slides] [supplemental reading] [recording]
7	Tu 10/5	Fall Break: No Meeting Project teams released	Break week, nothing due
	Th 10/7	Nash Equilibria and Monte Carlo Tree Search for Game Playing [slides] [supplemental reading] [recording]
8	Tu 10/12	Nearest Neighbor Search and Recommender Systems [slides] [supplemental reading] [recording]	HW4
	Th 10/14	More on Recommender Systems [slides] [supplemental reading] [recording]
9	Tu 10/19	Proposal Presentations	Proposal
	Th 10/21	Hashing Big Data [slides] [supplemental reading] [recording] [recording continued]
10	Tu 10/26	Consistent Hashing and Distributed Systems [slides] [supplemental reading] [recording]	HW5
	Th 10/28	Algorithms for Cryptography and the Internet [slides] [supplemental reading] [recording] [recording continued]
11	Tu 11/2	Stable Matching and School Choice [slides] [supplemental reading] [recording]
	Th 11/4	Wrapping up Stable Matching [recording]
12	Tu 11/9	Online Matching and Ad Auctions [slides] [supplemental reading] [recording]	HW6
	Th 11/11	Branch and Bound Discrete Optimization [slides] [supplemental reading] [recording] [recording continued]
13	Tu 11/16	Machine Learning & Neural Networks [slides] [supplemental reading] [recording]	Prototype
	Th 11/18	Backprop & Gradient Descent for Neural Networks [slides] [supplemental reading] [recording]
14	Tu 11/23	Algorithmic Bias and Fairness in Machine Learning [slides] [supplemental reading] [recording]	Break week, nothing due
	Th 11/25	Thanksgiving Break: No Meeting
15	Tu 11/30	Final Presentations and Demos	Final Presentation Slides
	Th 12/2	Final Presentations and Demos
16	Tu 12/7	Reading Period: No Meeting
	Th 12/9	Final Exam Period: No Meeting	DUE BY 5PM Final Report Peer Evaluations