Important announcements will be posted here. Please check regularly.

2 October 2026:

Lab 3 and Assignment 2 are both posted. You don't need to submit for the labs.
The submit deadline for this assignment is 12:30pm, 16 October 2026, Friday.

18 September 2026:

Lab 2 tasks are related to the Assignment 1, so it is posted now ahead of its lab time on September 25th.

17 September 2026:

Lab 1 and Assignment 1 are both posted. You don't need to submit for the labs. The submit deadline for this assignment is 12:30pm, 2 October 2026, Friday.

2 September 2026:

Welcome to CSCI 479, Artificial Intelligence with a focus on Machine Learning.

Our first lecture starts at 11:30, Wednesday, 9 September 2026. The first lab will be held on 12:30 - 14:30, Friday, 18 September 2026 for Section F26N01, and 14:30 - 16:30, Friday, 18 September 2026 for Section F26N02.

If, for any reason, you can not attend the first lecture session, please notify your instructor (Email: Huizhu.Liu@viu.ca) ASAP. Otherwise, you run the risk of being de-registered from the class due to VIU's no-show policy.

The course website (outside of VIU Learn) is hosted at: http://csci.viu.ca/~liuh/479. Here is the draft of the course outline for CSCI 479 posted on the course website.

If you can not find the information you need for the course from the course outline and the course website, please contact your instructor (Huizhu.Liu@viu.ca).