====== What's New? ====== 9 Sept 2014: Assignment initial(0) and small(1) given. Assignment initial(0) collected.\\ 11 Sept 2014: added DBLEARN family stuff; enhanced handouts; updated calendar\\ 16 Sept 2014: added rough sets materials, updated calendar, added basic stuff\\ 18 Sept 2014: added more rough sets material; lecture 5\\ 23 Sept 2014: added revised guest lecturer Graham Toppin's lecture 5\\ 25 Sept 2014: updated calendar; lecture 6\\ 29 Sept 2014: added lecture 7, 7a, 8, 8a; added handouts - elem2; updated calendar\\ 02 Oct 2014: updated presentation material and presentation assignments\\ 02a Oct 2014: again updated presentation material and presentation assignments\\ 09 Oct 2014: added lecture 10,11, handout on KNN algorithm & gradient decent\\ 13 Oct 2014: added assignment big,assignmentbiggrade, project grading, bag-of-words, CNG classification, updated calendar\\ 15 Oct 2014: added some sample projects from computational linguistics class\\ 16 Oct 2014: updated presentation information, updated calendar, updated important dates\\ 20 Oct 2014: added lectures 12 & 13\\ 23 Oct 2014: added handouts (em algorithm), lecture 14, assign small answers\\ 27 Oct 2014: added lecture 15a; updated calendar\\ 28 Oct 2014: added lecture 16\\ 4 Nov 2014: added handouts on recommender systems\\ 9 Nov 2014: added lectures 15 & 17;added handouts on spatial data mining; added lecture(s) 18\\ 17 Nov 2014: updated calendar\\