Important announcements will be posted here. Please check regularly.
23 October 2026:
Lab 6, Bayesian Belief Network, has been posted.
16 October 2026:
Lab 5 has been posted. This lab also works as Review and Q/A session for the midterm.
Assignment 3 has been posted.
The submit deadline for this assignment is
12:30pm, 30 October 2026, Friday.
9 October 2026:
Lab 4 has been posted.
7 October 2026:
CSCI 479 Midterm is scheduled to take place in class from 11:30 to 12:50 on October 19th, 2026 (Monday) in Building 200 Room 105.
For more information about the exam preparation, visit Exam Preparation. Don't forget that you can bring one piece of letter sized and double sided notes to the exam.
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).