Homework 1 - Team ALRIC

Slides link: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Kzekox3w-1BMNaD-JJQBKHXSLfb4iHT-Rbx9sDqk5Pg/edit?usp=sharing

Group Members: Austin Connick, Luis Lozano, Ryan Rizzo, Ian Forsyth, Cesar Perez

Nando de Freitas:

Nando de Freitas is a machine learning professor at Oxford University receiving his PhD from Trinity College in 2000. He is a lead research scientist on Google's DeepMind, an AI project to advance machine learning, neuroscience engineering, mathematics, and computing infrastructure. He has received the Google faculty Award, as well as publishing papers on artificial intelligence and machine learn. He is currently working on building AI systems to find a better understanding of how the brain works.

Hannah Smith:

Hannah Smith is a research assistant and PhD candidate at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. Her research is focused on natural language processing and organization. Her work is focusing on reading and analyzing words within languages to find patterns and group them, to find a deeper understand of how they are used in different contexts. Hannah is also a friend of Ian, and graduated from the University of Arizona with an Honors Degree in ISTA.

Retrospective/post-mortem:

The good: We successfully collaborated for the first interaction as a team, created our slides on time, and were organized and prepared to present.

The bad: We misunderstood the requirement of one of the slides.

The ugly: Things felt a little rushed, considering it was the first week and we all presumably had additional responsibilities that followed class on Tuesday morning.

What would be done differently: Ideally, future HWs will allot more time between being assigned and being due so we will have ample time to plan a meeting, collaborate, and ask questions to avoid confusion on what is being assigned and/or expected from us.