Week

Topics

Homework

Reading

Special Events and Due Dates

1

Introduction and Course Goals

2

High Level Brain Structure and Function

Selected Material From Textbook

3

Biological Neurons and Receptive Fields

 HW#1

4

Hebb Learning

Selected Material From Textbook

5

Feature Extraction Neural Network Model using Hebbian Learning

 HW#2

 HW#1 Due

6

Human Visual System

Selected Material From Textbook

7

Human Visual System Computational Model

 HW#3

 HW#2 Due

8

 EXAM 1

 EXAM #1

9

Biologically Inspired Optimization Methods

 HW#3 Due

10

Genetic Algorithm

Paper #1 Assigned

11

Evolving Neural Networks

 HW#4

12

Artificial Immune Systems

 Paper #1 Assigned

13

Swarm Optimization

 HW#5

 HW#4 Due

14

Student Project Presentations

15

Student Project Presentations

 HW#5 Due

16

 EXAM 2

 EXAM #2