Great course but a bit difficult.
I was very happy
taking this course
under prof. Rao was he very enthusiastically taught all topics giving real-life examples to help
us understand the concepts better.
Loved the class, learned
a lot.
The Instructor is very good, if student
really wants to learn AI.
I wish many other
courses are taught
by this instructor, but alas teaching
is a self less work in the world of research.
Hope Prof Rao takes
some more specialized courses in fields
of AI over the next semesters, would want to take a course like that personally
Overall it is a good course,
enjoyed throughout the
semester.
Overall, great
course, and a great instrcutor. I have learned
more about AI in this class than any
other class at any other college in my life.
Initially for
the first 4-5 weeks, I did not like the subject at all. Did not like the way
Professor Rao taught and could not understand anything. Realized I was the
problem and wasn't putting much effort into the course somewhere around week10.
It is my first time being taught this way, learning for the sake of gaining
knowledge instead of for exams. It was cool, I grew a lot in this course,
through failure and introspection and your enthusiasm for the subject
and to make sure that we are understanding made me feel like, "He
is working harder and cares more than me to make sure that
I learn something. So Why not give it another try?"and found something I wanted to pursue as a
career. The field is so interesting and vast and made me really appreciate
people who pursue PhD and research work in General. In the end, what I mean to
say is that the course was excellent but I believe it
was you, your facts such as Connecting everything while learning and other
stuff and your personality that had an impact
in me changing for the better. I do not know the benefits/effects
of this course going forward but although I may not pursue a PhD (Still
thinking about it cuz I am not a bright one you see),
I will make sure to do something different. Thank You.
Cool class, I probably liked
it as much as I did because
of the connections the professor drew between subject matters.
I liked that we spent
time looking at things other
than just ChatGPT. Feels
like a lot sometimes, especially with watching lecture videos at home.
Enjoyed the class for sure.
CEAS Averages: Instructor:
4.64 Course:4.32
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23.
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What did you like
most about this course?
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Rao is
awesome!!!!!! Seriously the best professor I've ever had
Dr. Rao is an absolute legend. Having taken him twice now, I can say that ASU is
blessed to have him as faculty, and I am blessed
to have had him twice.
He's great. He's the heart of the course. Without
him, this course is so much less.
The way the professor taught the subject
and concepts
Prof. Rao tries to clear each and every doubt before moving
forward with the class. And also gives enough supplementary content to understand the course better.
The course content was absolutely fantastic. I doubt
any course has taught me or pushed me as much.
I liked the content so much so that I'm trying to pursue a PhD in related
areas. I also really liked that the class pushed us to read papers.
I
am really glad
we got to learn about all different
kinds of planning.
I think I learned a lot about the field and can take that with me no matter what realm of AI I go into. I love the connection between RL and planning as people don't usually think of that often. I also liked reviewing papers
as I felt I could understand a whole lot more of the breadth
of the field that way.
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In-depth coverage of course topics
Prof introduced us to the topic and then took us to the next level
where we were thinking on our own. That's a big deal in a single semester.
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The professor was too good in explaining
the topics and motivating students
to explore the subject. The classes, although
being long, were interesting mainly because of the professor's style of teaching.
Course content is so novel
and adapting to the contemporary standards withstanding the test of time. Similarities and differences between
different schools of thought was an eye opener.
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The course sub topics based on a comparison between planning and learning.
Instructor did a great job connecting ideas from seemingly disparate parts of computer science.
Rao himself. He's great. The material is extremely interesting as well.
Course Concepts
Paper reading assignments. This course created a very good habit of reading
too many research
papers.
Instructor has a lot of knowledge
on the course and shares further readings
always. His teaching style shows his enthusiasm
towards the subject.
Gives an entire new perspective to look at the research
and publishes.
Personally I was most interested in the future
directions of the course (especially abstraction and hierarchy), and several of the research
papers such as Kushing's preference learning paper,
planning from pixels,
or Konidaris
and Kaelbling.
The best thing about this
class is how Dr. Kambhampati goes super in-depth
into any questions
that students have and how the concepts
he elaborates upon connect across all sorts of domains
in-and-out of AI. I had a class with him last
year so I knew what to expect each Friday during the double lectures; even so, everything was new and presented in a different
light (even if it was a lot to learn at first, the past 20 years of his classes are all available
on YouTube/audio). That being said, Dr. Kambhampati is, by far, the
most-dedicated professor I've had at ASU.
�Cheers!
There isn't much else to say, nor am
I qualified to say if there is anything else to improve
upon -- this class is basically Prof 'Kambhampati's Research:
The class', which
in my opinion is what most graduate-level classes
should be. This was much closer to a
seminar class than a regular
rotation class, which is
quite excellent.
If
I had taken this course
at a different point in my academic
career, I would have gotten so much
more out of it. Unfortunately, the fault of any issues does not actually lie with the instructor here. I had a lot of personal
issues, a rocky transition, and extreme burnout
that contributed. I wish I could take this course
maybe 2 years down the line when I am settled
in and have things worked through and re-experience and relearn this material.
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The coursework and the professor
were awesome This class was amazing.
This was a pretty good class, and I learned a lot!
Dr. Rao is an great professor who comes to each lecture with in-depth
knowledge and expertise on the
subject matter. The only critique I have would be that he discusses topics at
great lengths on occasion,
which results in not being able to get through
the day's slides.
Would be interested if Prof. taught more grad courses
in future semesters.
Prof is extremely enthusiastic but a solid
experience with the background content
is needed to excel
in this course
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The grad teaching
staff is also another
highlight! Learning from them every few classes
was interesting since I got to hear different perspectives on similar concepts within temporal planning, per se, aside from the theoretical perspective from class. Hearing about their work often made my day, since I got
to see how to apply what
I learned in class (in the near future). Shoutout
Prof. Sreedharan, Sriram, and Karthik :)
Prof. Kambhampati is a great teacher. I am glad
I took this course. I am
incredibly grateful to have taken this class!
:)
CEAS Averages: Instructor:
4.62 Course:4.45
23. What did you like most about this course?
o
Nearly everything. Professor Rao is one
of the nicest professors I've had the fortune of taking a class with. This
class was a substantial amount of work, and had actually
quite difficult material, which is not something I have seen before
here. The pace also felt quite nice, it's one of the few classes that I did not
feel were too slow.
o
Professor Rao himself was one of the best
parts of this class, his humor was appreciated, and it's amazing how accessible
he was - I would say that the lunches with students was possibly the most a
professor has done for outreach. Additionally, the projects were also really quite interesting.
o
Dr. Kambhampati is probably the best
professor I've ever had: he cares about his students
and their understanding of the material, but he also takes time to teach us
stuff he finds interesting. There's always a new connection to the world
outside of AI each class, whether it be a literary quote or a real-life application
of the course content. It really keeps the course interesting when one class
could be pure stats with a small interstitial portion about a funny AI joke, or
a quip we get later on in the same class. Alongside
this, he makes sure to learn each student's name, which makes the difference in
asking questions about class content. It's made me more passionate about
learning new things in CS, so I'm pretty happy that I
was able to take it this semester.
o
Everything. Literally everything. I am so
glad that Dr. Rao offered me a place in his class when I wasn't a Barrett
student. I've been loving everything about this class, and it has definitely inspired me to continue my love of A.I. and
Robotics.
o
I certainly liked how it was accessible
to all Barrett students. The overview of many topics of AI definitely
guided my interests and helped me decide my future.
o
I really liked professor
Rao himself. His enthusiasm made the class a joy.
o
I liked that it was hard and it didnt feel like a waste of time like every single CS class
in previous semesters
o
I really liked learning about these
concepts and ideas behind artificial intelligence, and I really appreciated
that the instructor spoke in an energetic manner and really showed that he was
invested and cared about the topic.
o
Classes are entertaining, and the topics
are interesting. The professor has a great sense of humor, too.
o
This is a fascinating topic. I
appreciated the small class, something I have never experienced in my time at
the Fulton schools.
o
Professor's ability to relate different
topics together throughout the course. Lots of resources/previous lectures
available.
o
I enjoyed Dr. Khambhampati's
passion for the subject and his energy
o
The depth by which the professor went in to the theoretical topics of AI and the genuine interest
he had in teaching the subject matter
o
The course was interesting, and I found
Dr. Rao to be very educated on the subject. Dr. Rao's lectures were very
straightforward, which I appreciated. We tackled important topics in the field
of AI, including ethics, without any side-stepping around delicate content.
o
The engaging and challenging nature of
the assignments. I appreciated that the course treated us like intelligent and
capable students and wasn't afraid of challenging us. The class wasn't hard for
the sake of being hard and it never felt like a chore.
o
Professor was very passionate about the
course. He really cared about the topics, and the lectures were engaging. I
also liked that the professor took much feedback into account during the class.
o
I love all of
the topics covered in this course and the method of instruction was phenomenal.
Going over analogies and connecting different topics made me understand AI on
such a deep level that I will take with me for the rest of my life. Also, the
projects were really fun, especially the Pacman ones,
and I found that the problem sets were very helpful for me to understand the
material.
25. Comments
o
Dr. Rao is a certified legend in my book
and is among the most engaging, funny, and interesting professors I have ever
had the pleasure of working with. 10/10 if he ever asks to run a class like
this again, please let him inspire another generation. The way this class has
been run has simultaneously challenged me to think yet kept it controlled. The work load was as expected, and I am quite happy to report
that this has been my favorite class at ASU. Ever.
o
Keep on making this course accessible to
those willing and able to learn AI, particularly to those who may not be in
computer science.
o
I was the person who wrote it was too
easy in the first class poll, I liked that it got
harder
o
I think this was a good course overall
and enjoyed taking it.
o
Overall a
very interesting class. The projects were fun to do, and I feel like I learned
a great deal during this class.
o
I feel this class expected to cover too
much. This is not a bad thing at all; but this is one of those classes you'd
need an extra half semester to get everything to the degree of detail I expect
Professor Rao wanted - and this is at the 1.5x accelerated pace we're on. I
would still be willing to do that though, that's how much I liked this class.
o
Thanks for taking attendance: I slacked
off a bit earlier in the semester, but after I got an email asking why I was a
no-show for a few classes it was a wake-up call to get my stuff, and life,
together. Realizing that my professors actually care
about how their students understand content and engage with their course
shifted my perspective on going to class in general -- all for the better.
Thanks!
o
This is the most demanding class I have
this semester, but it's also the most interesting, and I'm glad I took it and
stuck around.
o
Overall, even though this course was very
stressful, it was one of my favorite courses overall from my time at ASU. I
found that even when I was tired, when I went to this class, I felt energized
by all of these concepts and the passion with which
the professor conveyed them.
o
I wish this class was taught across two
semesters. I think that would've allowed us to have more time with each
individual concept while also covering more details from the field.
o
The system where we watch lecture videos
before the class and then the class sort of reviews/expands upon the lecture we
watched is really good. I feel like I could get a
better understanding because it's always easier to absorb knowledge the second
time through..
o
The teaching assistants were very
helpful.
o
I understand that this course is not
taught too often by Dr. Rao, but I think it fit very well as an honors section course
o
Wished there was more time for lectures.
CEAS Averages: Instructor:
4.64 Course:4.51
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23
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What did you like most about this course?
|
o
I
loved every aspect of the course especially the wide variety of topics that we covered.
I have a much better and lasting understanding of various topics of AI.
o
Rao
is the best professor I have ever had.
o
Materials
covered are interesting and covered with a good amount of depth.
o
The
Berkeley Pac-Man projects, although at times frustrating, was fun. In addition,
I enjoyed the topics that we cover in class because they are relevant to
current technologies and my interest.
o
That
the instructor connected AI concepts with life and gave certain examples thay will stay with us forever
o
Deep
ideas discussed.
o
The
course was structured well that it started from basics and covered most of the cutting edge concepts in the field of AI.
o
I
liked the application of the algorithms that were thought. The enthusiasm of
the professor was at it's best. Interesting notes
that the professor gave for extra information about the subject. Amazing Jokes.
o
I
liked how much information was in this class and the relevancy of the topics
covered through the semester.
o
I
always wanted to take AI under prof. Rao, and the moment I found a chance I
did. The course was a lot tougher than a 400 level but
this made us spend more time in understanding the concepts and dive in deeper
into the logic which was definitely the best thing about this course.
o
The
professor was too good and the way he builds the intuition for the topics that
he teaches is excellent.
o
Everything
about the course is amazing because the professor is too good projects,lectures
o
The
subject and the professor's way of teaching it
o
Professor
knowledge and enthusiasm to teach. The course covers all the portions of AI
o
This
class has been the most engaging class I've ever been in. Dr. Rao clearly has a
mastery level understanding of AI, and his ability to use humor and stories to
help us understand the material better is bar none. His passion for AI and
wanting students to understand the material (instead of just getting good
grades on assignments and tests) is a mentality I wish more professor
would take.
o
Professor's
simple life-relating experiences of concepts
o
The
way all the topics are interlinked , projects,
professor's jokes and how well they are connected to the topics
o
No
time limit on homeworks and them consisting of ideas
to explore. The scope for this course wasn't limited whatever is necessary for
us to get started with ai prof made sure he taught us that, sometimes even with
extra effort. The best thing by far would be the fact prof puts his lectures
online I must have gone through then 7-8 times by now. Every time learning new
things because everything is connected in his lectures which we don't
understand when we listen to it live but once some extra topic is over
somethings make more sense in previous lectures and prof himself promotes that
explicitly. He is the best professor in ai I have ever seen in my whole life
for sure. There were topics which needed some practical or example approach
prof always made sure he had dedicately recorded
extra examples for that which was no less than epic.
o
One
thing i liked the most is the way he connects all the
topics he teaches throughout the semester which makes learning faster and this
way i feel we can remember lot of things for long
time. There are very few professors if not any that i
have come across who teaches that way.
o
Projects
were challenging yet engaging. The professor definitely knew
his material and was super motivated to teach the topic.
o
The
enthusiam of the professor in teaching in the course
coupled with the application and reasoning-oriented instruction made it really enjoyable. The examples and background for each
concept provided by the instructor made it very easy to understand, grasp and
apply. The projects and homework assignments in the course provided
comprehensive as well as application based
understanding of the relevant concepts.
o
The
fact that Artificial Intelligence is the emerging hot topic in computer science
and learning it will help me stay up to date.
o
Class
lectures and projects Interesting topic
o
The
expression of ideas by the Professor; Exposure to various novel materials
related to the course provided by Professor; Professor's emphasis on conceptual
clarity
o
Its an interesting course
o
Lectures
were amazing.
o
The
teacher and the staff are really responsive and
dedicated to the course The enthusiasm of the instructor, the preparation and
the method of teaching.
o
The
professor, the teaching assistants, the materials used, the metaphors professor
gave, the misc information (like links to talks,
etc.) was excellent.
o
The
flow of concepts
o
The
explanations and analogies related to the topic in discussion Everything was
great about this course.
o
Professor
Rao is one of the best teachers I have come across in my life. A highly
committed teacher relating most of the topics to real-life situations has made
the subject super simple and interesting. His analogies of various topics with
life have made me relate to the topics. Along with the subject, I have learned
quite a few life lessons during the course.
o
Professor
Rao's excellent delivery, contemporary applications of coursework, helpful TAs,
stimulating lectures, insightful discussions on Piazza
o
Professor
extremely dedicated and passionate about the subject.
o
I
really liked the way professor connects various idea together and try to give
deeper insights into concepts.
o
The
teacher during office hours was like having a genius best friend to talk about
the future of technology with while also getting homework help. The powerpoints were good and the lectures were engaging, tying
in current events, pop culture references, and simple analogies that made conllex subject matter more palatable
o
I
liked how the course gave an introduction to not just
specific "forms" of AI (i.e., certain algorithms or ideas), but
rather fundamental ideas in AI. It feels like after going through this course,
I could pick up any AI textbook and at least have a rough idea of what's going
on before diving into the details of it, which I think is precisely what an
"introduction" class should be.
o
This
class revealed a lot about what AI is, and was an
interesting topic. The real concepts of AI
o
I
liked the programming projects; although I thought they could have been made a
bit more demanding (double the amount of code expected).
o
The
instructors obvious passion for the topic and his
sense of humor
o
His
lectures, slides and student summaries.
o
Learning
about different techniques in AI, the concepts underlying those techniques, how
the field is constantly changing, and the professor's passion for teaching the
course.
o
The
sheer span of this course really took me by surprise, but a very pleasant one.
This was the BEST learning experience I could have ever experienced in my whole
life. The course structure was perfectly suited for learning not just the
basics, but a significant amount of advanced AI, which in turn made it fun. But, the whole enjoyment was possible because of Prof. Rao.
I will never forget when you said"I
always talk about death so that you won't die out there". Thank you very
much for making this a very difficult but a fun semester.
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CEAS Averages: Instructor:
4.68 Course:4.51
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23
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What did you like most about this course?
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o
I have never learned more about a
single subject in any other course.
o Its a fascinating topic with a teacher
who has fascinating insights on said topic. His breadth of knowledge obviously
extends the vast depth of this topic. His quote of a doctor knows a little bit
of everything and everything about something seems to hold true for himself on
this subject.
o Professor; he is amazing. I got an over ride for this course and
consider myself lucky to be taking this course. ASU needs more professors like
him who are dedicated towards students. His assignments and homeworks
and TAs are amazing; they are there to help at every step.
o The professor really cared about all of us and wanted to share as much
information as possible as he could with all of us before the course was over.
He worked us hard and I had a lot of fun.
o The extensive coverage of topics.
* (Super)^(number of stars in universe) enthusiastic
professor.
* Very relevant home-works.
* Projects were extensive.
* Super duper responsive TAs on Piazza.
* I liked the extra material/ reading posts on Piazza supporting what was
taught in class.
* So many references to the current trends in AI and keeping the class upto date with some of them.
* Amazing examples and analogies for every obtuse topic in class.
* Last 10 mins of the class. - The good bye.
o Everything was just wonderful. I loved the philosophical
discussions the most, I think; it's nice when everything isn't just theory and
code. I also appreciated the references he gave us to learn more about topics
that we couldn't go over in depth.
o Professor Rao's teaching style encourages the students to think
out of the box. He gives examples that stick to the brain making understanding
the course material easy.
o It's very interesting. The professor is good at teaching. It had
fun and interesting projects. Does a great job at keeping it all relevant and
giving example about what is happening now.
o Instructor is proficient in the material taught and has breadth of
knowledge over the subject.
o Enthusiasm for the subject, great introduction to many of the
topics in the AI Space. Professor was always very insightful into the current
state of AI and how it is evolving in the world around us.
o The ideas about AI that were discussed and especially, how they
were delivered by Prof Rao was brilliant.
o The projects were really fun.
o The material itself was very interesting and I learned a lot of
cool concepts
o Every concept is explained in detail, the idea of having recorded
lectures and the pre class activities made us to be right on track
o Interesting material, interesting professor, Dr. Rao showed a lot
of enthusiasm for the course, kind of made everyone live and breathe AI
o Instructor enthusiasm for teaching this course. He is really good.
o Engaging in more philosophical thinking about AI.
o Very diverse topics, entertaining course
o The pacman project was v good. It is
good that Prof Kambhampati is committed to using modern teaching tools (eg pacman project, socrative, piazza etc).
o Project
o The course content and the professor is
awesome!
o Professor Rao's teaching.
o His interest to teach and make students learn
o This course (Artificial Intelligence) is extremely relevant to my
interests. It taught me a lot of very critical ideas in AI and introduced me to
Tensorflow (a very popular machine learning library
for Python).
o Great content and great quality of delivery of lectures
o I loved the relevance of the material being covered and the way in
which it was communicated to students. Also, the PacMan
projects are the most fun and well-executed projects I have done in a CS course
at ASU.
o The enthusiam of the instructor. The
instructor put in a lot of effort to generate interest of the students. The
projects were engaging.
o Learning about the different application of AI.
o The application of concepts to real world scenarios.
o great professor and teaching staff
o I went into this class with an interested in machine learning and
artificial intelligence and Rao covered a large amount of material in a short
amount of time and did it with clarity and humor. I loved going to class. This
class has really made me want to do more research and learning in the
artificial intelligence problem space.
o Projects
o Prof. Rao was excellent and did put a lot of effort to make this
course worth everything.
o The way he explains and connects topics ... Best for an intro class
o I loved how enthusiastic the lectures were, as well as their
availability online.
o Professor Rao's approach to life in general is really
insightful. He is the best faculty in entire ASU or at least in all of the courses I have taken till now. But i think you would be knowing this. He taught us everything
in AI. An analogous comparison could be made with English, starting from
alphabets to writing long essays in same 3-months course, that's the volume we
have covered. But most importantly, the way professor gave importance to
learning rather than examscores is so rare in this
world.
o
This class was one of the most
challenging I've ever taken, and one of the most rewarding.
o Wow! This was an amazing class, and I am so happy to have taken
it. I have a newfound respect for and admiration of AI, so much so that I might
even consider it in the future. Dr. Kambhampati is a gem of an instructor, and
I wish every professor was as passionate and as prepared as he was for this
class.
o
The whole course is like a dream- a
good one. Its everything you could have asked for and then at the end of it you
want it to go on for a bit more. The professor goes beyond and takes extra
hours just so that we can learn more. The enthusiasm of the professor is
unmatched. All decisions are made with consensus of the class, which was also
one of the good things in class - we have a say. Having the class on youtube was very helpful, i
referred the lectures again and again to understand some concepts. Amazingly
helpful TA's. Exams made you think. Overall very happy
with the course and the amount of topics covered. Easily covered 3 -4 courses
material in a single course. Make students industry ready to pick from here and
apply the knowledge in real world.
o An overall fantastic professor. Extremely knowledgeable, cared
deeply about the students and their learning. A few examples ought to spell it
out:
- Called in from Australia on the first or second day of classes to answer
student questions despite it being 2 or 3 AM for him
- Posts frequently on Piazza asking for student feedback on his teaching, the
topics, the assignments, and the exams
- Makes an effort to learn students by name
- Stayed an extra 30 minutes every single class for about half the semester in
order to "make up" for classes he missed near the beginning
- Brought in treats for the entire class for Thanksgiving using his own money
o Overall he is an awesome professor
and I am gald that I took his course.
o A lot of work, but definitely worth it
(if I pass....). You should also give your TAs a raise, because they work
really hard and also show a high level of enthusiasm for AI
o Well, as I have already said, Professor Rao is one of the best
faculty in ASU. It was an honor to take a class under him. In most of the areas
except may be one or two areas like religion I feel
my views echoes and is almost same. So it always feels
better to be validated by president by AAAI. After this course, I am really
interested in doing research under the guidance of Professor Rao. At least for
me he is the best professor and teacher among all teachers ,
faculties who have taught me in class.
o Overall good course
o I have taken few courses where TAs are so so
bad. But CSE 471 TAs are amazing
o This is a good course and Prof Kambhampati is enthusiastic. Clear
worked examples for each topic would really help the learning process.
o I learnt a lot ... i wish I would have
taken this in my first sem and contiued
in this area
o I am glad that I took the course. The entire course is
fascinating.
o I kind of feel like it might serve this class well to be split in
half in a way but I wouldn't be able to tell how best
to split the content for it. It just doesn't seem like there's enough time to
go through the material for the course, but I do have to say Rao did a great
service to being able to cover as much as he was able to. I just feel he might
be better served with a bit more space and time to cover more content. Maybe
you could do an odd A/B session that's longer than the standard lecture time
and still fit that all in the equivalent of a semester who knows.
o Would recommend this course to students who like the idea of
Artificial Intelligence and are willing to put in time and effort
o Very satisfied
o Professor Rao was very approachable and responsive to student
feedback.
o Use blackboard more.
o always recommended
o I'll be graduating this semester, but I would have loved to take
another class from Rao possibly a follow up to the Intro Class that expands
even more into the machine learning field.
o Good course. But sometimes I felt like it is designed to be
unnecessarily time consuming.
o If possible, in future can you try generating 3d video
presentations for topics so that it will be another aid for your already well
explained topics
o Very good class. Professor is really
enthusiastic in this course. Learned a lot of interesting stuff. But
maybe teaching faster in the first half of the semester and slower the second
half of the semester.
o Rao is a master lecturer. I don't think you need me to tell you
that. Pay him more or you deserve to lose him, you probably will. Our stupid
football coach who barely wins half the time makes over 3 million dollars.
CEAS Averages: Instructor:
4.61 Course:4.30
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23
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What did you like
most about this course?
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|
|
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o The instructor is very entertaining and is my favorite lecturer
this semester. The topics he discussed were both interesting and difficult, but
he did well to use vary basic analogies and examples to take those intense
ideas and dumb them down a little.
o Interesting and challenging material, and Dr. Kambhampati was a
great lecturer.
o I loved learning how AI works.
o Literally absolutely everything.
o The topics discussed are very interesting and applicable to real
world scenarios and definitely forced me to think
about specific scenarios in a different way than I would have before taking
this class.
o Active class, energetic professor.
o The material was very engaging and I actually
(I'm sure that some students would disagree with me for whatever reason) liked
the side-topics. Felt like I was actually being taught
things organically and not just fed content according to some prescribed list
of checkboxes on some curriculum document.
Actually, I'm happy that I even learned things at all! Unfortunately
a rare feeling in my major.
Also the content was relevant and I've been applying concepts from class to my
own projects, something I can't really say about any other classes I've taken.
o I liked a lot about this class, however, one thing stood out above
the rest...The Pacman Projects. These were by far the most interesting part of
the class, my only regret is that we didn't get to do all of them.
The material itself was fascinating, I loved almost every topic that we
covered.
The graduate TAs were very helpful and willing to go above and beyond to help.
The recorded lectures were also great, it was nice to be able to go back and
view topics or re-watch things to get a better understanding.
o The pacman projects were amazing. Also Rao's jokes.
o The ability of the professors and TAs to encourage thought beyond
the initial ideas presented.
o The material was extremely interesting.
o Neural nets are interesting and the
professor is both knowledgeable and enthusiastic about the subject, making his
lectures engaging.
o Programming assignments
o Good and passionate teaching by the professor.
o Each topic was taught with enough depth to allow someone to pick
up and continue focus in that area or put it into practice
o The topics covered
o Course all by itself was awesome and with that professor's
teaching and projects and homeworks boosted every
good thing related to it.
o Valuable concepts that can be applied to areas other than AI
o The pacman projects.
o Excellent teaching and course structure
o Way of teaching, everything actually.
o I liked the course material and most of the projects.
o The enthusiasm given during lectures.
o The material was very interesting. I loved the projects too. Professor
was very enthusiastic and very nice. He is a very knowledgeable and fun guy.
o The professor is very enthusiastic about the material,
and is obviously very knowledgeable about AI. In other classes, when a
student asks a question and the professor begins his response with "that's
interesting", you know that the professor doesn't know the answer. In this
class, if professor Kambhampati begins an answer like
that you know that he's considering a *lot* of relevant information and how
best to tell beginner students so that they can understand.
I also like how the professor will call out students for not paying attention.
Lastly, the professor has a great personality, is really
funny, and includes a lot of references to movies, tv shows, current
events, and other things that keep college students focused.
o Good class!
o Great class. So, so happy I took it. I'm already using some of the
things I learned in a personal project.
o Much of the material was a little over my head,
or felt a bit complicated for an "intro to AI" class. On the
other hand, it made it interesting. This class would not have been nearly as
good if the professor dumbed it down.
o Rao is, tied with Dr. Adam Doupe, the
best CS professor I've had at ASU. Lectures were interesting and sprinkled with
humor.
There needs to be a recitation alongside this class. Also, all the homework
should be graded. The last 2 weren't, hence I had less motivation to do them. I
think if I did them it would have helped me learn the material better and
perform better on the second midterm.
o I greatly enjoyed the course, and wish
more in the future in knowledge of artificial intelligence.
o Too Long Didn't Read (TLDR): Instructor is amazing. Content is fun
and interesting. Questionable workload and projects.
o Very interesting course, maybe split it into 2 weekly sessions to
help keep up with the material.
o Must recommended under him if your area of Interest is AI
o Videos like your Value/Policy Computation for finite horizon MDP
were invaluable to learning the subject's computation. If you post videos like
that for examples given in class, I believe this would be a tremendous help for
future students.
o Like this class a lot and thoroughly enjoyed each session
o TA's were friendly enough answering all
our questions
o The Professor is extremely knowledgeable in the field
and I honestly enjoyed every lecture. However, the exams and projects had a
degree of difficulty beyond what one might expect for an "intro"
class on a subject area. I can appreciate the great depth to which the subjects
were explored but it did make understanding somewhat difficult. Also, as a note
to ASU, having lectures that run for more than 2 hours should be prohibited.
Despite how engaging and interesting the course was I couldn't help but lose
focus at times and even with the lectures recorded, digging through 3 hours of
video to recover those moments was often more effort than it was worth.
o One of the great courses offered at ASU, very interesting
material. Would like to take more AI classes
o Professor was always ready and prepared. He put all his effort
into this class but I think he can explain the
complicated materials using simpler examples.
o Awesome course
CEAS Averages: Instructor:
4.47 (4.35UG 4.67G) Course:4.12(4.02UG, 4.42G)
(Green
comments by UG students and Orange
ones by Grad students)
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o This was by far the best class I have ever
taken at ASU. Not only was the topic interesting, but Professor Rao taught the
class in an extremely interesting and engaging manner. For a class that could
have easily been another monotonous CS class where you learn interesting
content in a dreary and uninteresting way from Wikipedia pages and YouTube
videos from other universities, this was taught in a masterful way, which was
unlike any other ASU class I've taken in which more of a stress was placed on
being interested in the content, which led to understanding the content, then
understanding the content for a grade.
o
I loved the depth and
interest the professor had regarding the course material.
o
Everything! By far the
best class I have ever taken here at ASU.
o
Teacher's knowledge
and passion for the subject.
o
I thought the material
taught and the projects given we very enjoyable and challenging. I think professor Kambhampati is one of the best lecturers I have
had in my college experience and would very much enjoy taking another class
with him.
o
The atmosphere, it was
very welcoming and relaxed which resulted in hyper attention followed by
drowsiness.
o
The professor was
extremely knowledgeable in the field and the best lecturer I ever had.
o
Ideas &
Algorithms. I also learned more from the take home exam than I did studying.
It's one thing to try to learn from taking the course, but actively looking for
knowledge is how I take in information (see general comments regarding
problems/questions).
o
Very cool topics with
extremely wide ranges of applicability. Could have gone into more practical
examples of this applicability though just for a tiny bit of context
o
Programming projects
o
Projects were very fun
and interesting, promoted learning the content
o
Seeing the Pacman
projects run, it was actually nice to see AI running
in practice rather than looking at algorithms 24/7
o
Learning about
heuristics as well as doing the pacman projects.
o
Cover many topics in
the subject.
o
taped lecture, if I
needed more understanding on subjects, I could rewatch lectures and solidify
understanding.
the projects being so "finished"
o
Professor was
enthusiastic and knowledgeable about the subject. Material presented was drawn
from other more prestigious/rigorous courses at other universities. In person
lectures were usually engaging. Text book was well
selected and a valuable resource. Projects were really
interesting and well crafted. Very accommodating with due dates.
o Dr. Kambhampati's
lectures are highly engaging and informative. His anecdotes and sense of humor
are especially memorable. The Piazza discussion board also had some interesting
discussions.
o The instructor had in genius
ways for explaining each topic and relating it to real life scenarios to
clarify one's understanding. He always showed us the big picture in class and
went over the details to a substantial depth. He let us figure out the homework
problems by ourselves. This helped in gaining conceptual depth in the topics.
o Professor's teaching style.
o
Course Material
2) Instructor Enthusiasm and Knowledge of the course
3) Instructor's ability to create interest in the course
4) Instructor's Presentation
5) Resources to study
Excellent course. One of the best courses I have taken.
o
The professor made
classes and topics really interesting. Classes that he
teaches stimulate student's thinking
o
Professor is
brilliant. Loved the class overall, loved everything that were given in the
class.
o
Instructor is one the
best I have seen at ASU
Great method of teaching
o Professor Rao's enthusiasm for the subject is
by far the best part about taking this class.
o Best professor here at ASU hands down.
o
One of the best and
most memorable classes I've ever taken. Rao is next level as an instructor and his
breadth of life experience made his lectures and stories a blast.
o
Great teacher, would take another class with him.
o
awesome teacher, great
class
o
Great professor, great
book, great projects. Should be a sequence course so that more depth could be
explored. This subject is more important than some required courses in the CS
program. One of the only times in my experience a professor has made a concerted
effort to connect with students outside of class.
o
Not that this is
written before I know my final grade and thus this could all change, but I
don't think so. Excellent course. I recommend Professor Rao to all students who
want to not only learn, but be inspired.
o
Kambhampati is an
amazing professor.
o
Honestly I
am slightly torn, the once a week class allowed for more depth as the professor
could expect students to watch the lecture, so effectively we had much more
time available to understand concepts. However this
also led to a lot of time being devoted to this course, and it almost feeling
like 4,5 or even 6 credit hours instead of just 3.
o The classes were very good,
however the subject was too hard for me and I couldn't follow up with the class
o I really loved the way the subject was taught
in class. Although the work pressure was substantial, it helped us to learn a
lot and have a wide perspective on the topic. It also inspired to think
innovatively on the topics.
o
good
o
I wish I would have
taken IR under him. On of the very few faculties in
ASU under which you will learn something.
o
May be if some sample
solved problems related to concepts are given as handouts will help students to
understand concepts clearly.
o
Excellent course!
o
Definitely, Teacher of
the year (I have heard he teach the same way every year, implies that I would
nominate him every year :) )
o Overall this was a very good course. Professor Rao's
enthusiasm for the subject is unmatched by most professors I have had in the
past. He does a great job reinforcing high level details of the topics and how
those topics apply to the real world. I think this course could be improved if
more resources were invested into recitation/problem solving sessions. Since
Professor spends so much time covering the high level
details (as he should), we need more help with implementing the actual
problems. Of course these are just my opinions. Most
recitation sessions weren't full so perhaps many students don't feel the same
way I do. This would be a perfect course if there was a stronger emphasis on
actual problem solving in recitation/lab environments mixed with the already
awesome lectures Professor Rao gives.
o The instructor had ingenius
ways for explaining each topic and relating it to real life scenarios to
clarify one's understanding. He always showed us the big picture in class and
went over the details to a substantial depth. He let us figure out the homework
problems by ourselves. This helped in gaining conceptual depth in the topics.
CEAS Averages:
Instructor: 4.77 (4.79UG, 4.76G) Course:4.54
(4.40UG, 4.59G)
(Green
comments by UG students and Orange
ones by Grad students)
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o
The teacher
o
I liked the content
and instruction.
o
I sometimes felt
inadequate while trying to comprehend the math behind the concepts, but your
explanations and examples made the learning much easier. I really feel like I
learned more in this course than I do in two "normal" courses. Thank
you!
o
The professor was
hilarious, and he also knew how to encourage class participation while
thoroughly educating us on each subject.
o
Professor is obviously
very knowledgable about the subject and really interesting to listen to. The course absolutely
stalemates student thinking and was a good introduction to search engines and
big data in general.
o
Teaching Quality
o
Project and teaching
o
Learnt a lot from the course. Enjoyed enthusiastically
learning about the course topics covered.
o
Instructor has immense knowledge about the subject. The
hybrid way of watching lectures before the class and quiz in the class was very
helpful to understand the concepts which required deep learning considering the
topics of concern. The course itself was very interesting.
o
The knowledge of the professor on this topic. He has a very
deep knowledge on this course, which made this course really
interesting.
o
The way the instructor connect material to real life
subjects.
o
In depth review of concepts
o
Course structure is good. Professor has very deep knowledge
about the subject.
o
Professor! He is the "best" professor at ASU. He
is very dedicated towards students. I remember, he took review session on
Google hangout at midnight day before exam as he was out for conference.
Lectures are never boring because of his sense of humor and of course how
interestingly he teaches course content. Lot of real life
stories related to contents he is teaching, makes him unique.
o
Do the project myself.
o
Professors
knowledge about the subject and his way of teaching.
o
Professors teaching style and his enthusiasm
o
The Projects are the BEST part about this course. It has
given me immense knowledge and programming skills required in the Industry. I feel I have achieved something after
successfully completing this course.
o
Everything
o
Project
o
Professor's way of teaching made us think deeper about the
topic. Course syllabus is a good collection of foundation topics in multiple areas
o
Excellent Teaching
o
The Content of the course is very interesting and the
instructor who takes this course is one of the reason
for enrolling in the course. Dr. Rao is the one of the gem
of this university and the way he deliver knowledge is brilliant.
o
Though i may not have scored
excellent grades in this course, but i end up on
having a lot of basic knowledge in this area. Which was the highlight of the
course for me.
o
I would like to pass a Thank You note to the CIDSE
department and the professor for having this course.
o
I wish at least some of the important material
were taught inside the class too.
o
One of the best courses of ASU.
o
I do not understand why students should take his class with
the same topic : watching previous video in home and
discussing in the class. In the other words, students should spend a lot of
time preparing the class.
o
Great course, great teacher
o
Great Professor. Awesome course.
CEAS Averages:
Instructor: 4.82 (4.36UG, 4.86G) Course:4.66
(4.29UG, 4.66G)
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o
Everything! Dr.Rao
is probably one of the best things that can happen to you at ASU!
o
The quizzes we had every week in class ensured I watch the lecture
videos regularly. The method of instruction of the professor is very clear,
stimulates thinking. The lectures are packed with information and the course
structure is great. The project are great too, they
significantly deepened my understanding of key concepts.
o
The way the course is related to real world.
The projects that exposed the student to real world problems.
Thought provoking exams.
o
Simply awesome course. One of the best courses I had ever taken.
o
I got to learn a lot of things. I learnt many concepts of wide
field in one course. Awesome knowledge of professor. Very energetic and
inspiring.
o
(almost everything) The projects and the quizzes
, discussions.
o
Professors enthusiasm and the his knowledge about the subject :)
o
Teaching and Projects
o
The concepts covered by the course are intriguing and every
computer science student must take a similar course to understand something
beyond data structures
o
The professors way of teaching.The
real world example stated in class.
o
Although categorized as an undergrad course. It has the material
required for a Phd course. Nice coursework and
Instructor's done an amazing job.
o
This course gave me a chance to learn more than anything I have
learnt so far. The course projects helped us to apply our theoretical knowledge
on the subject.
o
The Professor was inspiring. You can't fluke the course. You will
have put a lot of time and energy to do well in the course.
o
The wide range of topics covered in the class and the projects.
o
This course is MUST TAKE course.
Professor is immensely knowledgeable and humorous at same time. Every time I
watch his lectures , I feel like I should also pursue
PhD.
o
I liked the projects and the way the professor teaches.
o
variety of topics, most of which are currently applied in computer
science.
o
A Fantastic Course and according to me "The" best course
at ASU and its all because of Professor Rao. His
dedication in teaching this subject is tremendous which urges the Students to study more. The Quiz idea in every lecture is
very good which builds a good discussion point and helps us Learn beyond the
course and give even more.
o
Perhaps the best course at ASU. Pof. Rao
is one of the very few professors who make learning fun. The depth with which
professor covered the syllabus was remarkable. Prof Rap makes you to think
about IR even when you are watching movies. A must do course.
o
Everything.
o
Projects, Professor and course material.
o
Course is very intuitive and stimulating.
2. Professor is very jovial and class was very
interactive.
3. Good projects to support the course content.
o
The format of the class - it was flipped class and the in class quiz. It worked really well.
o
Everything!!! He is a great Professor!!!
o
The course content is very logical. The learning curve is
amazingly good.
The instructor's inverted class concept of teaching is unique and helpful.
The projects really relate to the course content learned.
So, helps realize practical application and problems in applying the concept,
which I feel is very important.
o
Almost everything. Surely the best course I took in my graduation.
The way he teaches is just amazing, and the examples that he gives are just
terrific.
o
The content of the course is very good and covers a lot of current
topics with adequate amount of details.
o
Professor makes the class so lively with lot of practical examples
and deep explanation for everything he says. Everything is so perfect, complete
satisfaction about the course and joy of learning so much. Learning curve for
anyone would be simply great.
o
Range of extremely interesting topics, relevant to industry.
o
everything
o
Develop Search Engine, Professor examples, illustrations, teaching
methodologies.
o
The best course work, project work is extraordinary
and the stuff taught by the professor is so much of importance.
Really makes us think about the concepts.
o
The classes taken are simulating and interesting.
o
The way professor explains the concepts is awesome.
o
The format of in class quizzes help solidify concepts.
o
How well the course is evaluated in itself by
professor and how he encourages to do the right thing rather looking at it with
the google perspective.
o
The structure of the course. Unlike most other classes that focus
on spurts of memorization and testing, which leads to a high rate of
forgetfulness, this class actually encouraged
learning. I loved the idea of taking online lectures and then devoting the
actual lecture time to an academic discussion. This way, what we learned
throughout the week was solidified and any misconceptions corrected.
o
Holy place for Hindus - Kashi
Holy place for Muslims - Mecca
Holy place for Jews - Israel
Holy place for ASU CS student - CSE494 class.
Life changing professor and life changing course!
Kudos and salute to Dr.Rao!
Excellent would be an understatement for this class!
Strongly recommend this course for anyone who is interested in this area.
o
I'm very glad that I took this course. It has surely given me a
great insight into core concepts of information retrieval. I would love to take
other courses under this professor if they are offered sometime in the
subsequent semesters.
o
Overall, I am satisfied that I have learned something new in the
class.
The projects really got my thinking.
Even topics like bidding are discussed in the class that was one awesome
lecture.
o
Please do take this course, before you graduate.
o
The best course ever at ASU
o
I consider myself lucky that I got a chance to take a course under
Professor Kambhampati.
o
Excellent Class :)
o
I learned a lot in this course. Loved the subject
o
Excellent Course. Excellent Professor.
o
Professor Rao's awesome!!!!!
o
My coding skills increased tremendously after taking this course.
Though the projects require additional effort, its
worth doing them. Definitely the best course I have
taken so far.
o
Excellent course. Professor is very enthusiastic and passionate to
teach. He keeps your interest maintained in the subject.
o
It would be better if the instructor starts a graduate course in
this area.
o
Good professor, good course to be on the resume.
o
A Fantastic Course and I would recommend every CS Student to take
it Once to experience Prof Rao's Teaching at his Best.
o
He inspire me.
-
A must take course. One can learn a lot.
- Please change TA.
o
Must take course if you are interested in data science.
2. Heavy course but worth the effort.
o
Prof is awesome. He is enthusiastic and always well prepared. He
gave real life examples for almost all the concepts he taught. He is best Prof
I have studied under.
o
It would be great if the prof has separate deadlines for project code(something like 2 days before the analysis has to be
submitted) and analysis of the project. This will be great for all because all
the students worry about code and hence end up screwing their analysis. Hence its just a suggestion for the prof when he offers this
course next time.
o
Instructor is an exceptional person.
o
Professor is super cool awesome ! Lots of
insights, loads of knowledge transferred to everyone. Best of all courses I
have taken so far ! Feeling great and so thankful for
being in his class ! He made us think. He made us to
approach problem in different dimensions. Hats off to Professor
!!
o
Excellent course and instructor! Dr. Rao's lectures are the best I
have ever experienced. The course has extremely interesting topics and the way
Dr. Rao explains it is simply brilliant! To build a mini search engine as a
project is pretty exciting and is great learning.
o
Even though the load is high, we can learn a lot of things.
o
A very interesting course which every computer science student
must take.
o
Awesome instructor, great lecturer
o
I believe the content that was presented was very enjoyable, and
valuable to students of my major. I feel, that more
courses on related topics would be highly beneficial, and I am amazed at how
few students in my undergraduate class even considered taking this course, as
its content should be deemed essential
CEAS Averages:
Instructor: 4.20 Course:4.24
o
Tremendously intellectually stimulating.
o
The opportunity to relate the material to current activities in
the AI community. Reading papers that are current and learning concepts that
are recent and active.
o
Projects, content.
o
Teacher's knowledge. He has a lot of knowledge on the subject.
o
Instructor covered advanced material that is not usually covered
in Artificial Intelligence classes.
o
designing of course work.. professor and
the way of teaching and support materials provided by professor.
o
The classes are very interesting. A wide range of topics in AI are
covered. The homework problems are adequate to help understand the topics in
the class.
o
The subject and (most of the time) the way it was presented. The
course was challenging but extremely interesting and while the instructor is
somewhat intimidating, I really enjoyed his explanations.
o
Lecture Videos
o
The topics that were discussed
o
LDA
o
Amazing enthusiasm by the professor. the professor has a very deep
understanding of the topics. Amazing in comparing and
contrasting topics in the subject. The video lectures were a blessing as
I could rewatch the videos again and again. I can go ga-ga about the course.
But in gist, the learnings are definately worth the
money and time put in. The projects are really exciting
too.
o
The professor did a very good job of making the course interesting
and engaging. I learned a great deal this semester about the subject.
o
I think this is a really great course
that introduces a lot of interesting ideas. I really liked the coding portions
of the assignments.
The instructor really has a passion for the topics that come across in his
teaching. He does his best to make even the most difficult topics
understandable.
o
How the course takes you through the ideas that were involved in
past in AI field to the current state of the art.
o
The concepts presented in this class are complex and difficult to
understand. There were many instances when references to ancillary topics were
mentioned or concepts that were coming but not yet developed were brought up.
This added to the difficulty of understanding the material since I was not
familiar with many of the concepts ancillary concepts mentioned. It would be
helpful to stay focused on the development of the concepts without jumping
ahead for previews from time-to-time.
o
this is a excellent course and should be
there every semester in the curriculum..
o
amazing course. overall very happy with
my performance and overall teaching of the professor.
o
Clearer expectations on homework assignments would be appreciated,
as well as a more even distribution of work across the semester. I really
enjoyed the professor's teaching style, though.
o
Overall, I really enjoy this course.
o
Professor Subbrao is an excellent
teacher --- easily the best among all the graduate courses I have taken. His
ability to correlate concepts across a wide range of topics --- deterministic
planning, markov decision processes, reinforcement
learning and Bayesian inferencing --- is simply unmatched. The video recordings
of lectures are very useful. I would strongly recommend this course to people
interested in AI.
CEAS Averages:
Instructor: (4.72 UG, 4.53G) Course: (4.07 UG; 4.43G)
o
This is by far the most
interesting course I've ever taken at ASU and I wish
more classes were like this one. I actually feel as
though I've learned something useful, which I can't say about some of my other
classes sadly...
o
By far the most
interesting class i took this semester.
o
Great teacher and course
o
professor's teaching,
projects for the course are very good and relevant
o
His teaching
methodologies and the use of various platforms for interacting among fellow
students and the professor
o
Special content.
o
The teaching is very
good. Professor delivers his ideas to students very well.
o
It covers a wide range
of topics. Information retrieval is especially interesting and useful for me.
o
Projects and home works helped me in understanding the concepts well
o
The project in this
course is very good.
o
Can relate topics and
algorithms to that used in the industry
o
Instructor's enthusiasm
and mastery over the topics
o
Project and the
lectures. Especially the flipped classroom was great. Professors
way of explaining things are great
o
Great course
o
Good Syllabus
o
The topics covered are
interesting and advanced and, the project looks good on the resume
o
Covers many topics
o
Project.
o
Everything
o
Rich concepts and hard
to get such course which gives you an insight about many crucial topics under
one course.
o
Extremely good
professor. I love his way of teaching. I would love to take more courses under
him. Thank You professor!!!
o
Best course I took at
ASU. I would be happy its offered every semester so
everybody get a chance to take this.
o
Considering the topics
covered and the project, I believe this should be a graduate course rather than
a 598 course
o
-Nice course. Professor
is good.
-Projects are the best thing i liked. Even home works are good. Except HW3.
o
Lectures should be taken
in class and not online.
o
Good
o
Professor is very well
prepared about the course content.He
comes up with real world examples to explain the concept thoroughly.He
is very energetic and always utilized the whole class time for teaching and he
is always updated with the latest things going on in the industry.
o
-The concepts are very
well thought by professor.
-Good home work and projects
that simulates us to think practically the concepts that are been thought
- Professor is excellent in his knowledge.
-I would like to take any course thought by him
CEAS Averages:
Instructor: 4.45 Course:3.91
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did you like most about this course?
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The professor was engaged,
interesting, knew the material, and clearly put a lot of effort into it. It was
great!
Dr. Kambhampati is an
enjoyable lecturer. He is knowledgable about the topic, but doesn't "speak above" his class.
Rao is a great lecturer. He definitely has a passion for AI and that is conveyed in
every lecture he gives. He also has a keen ability to perceive his students in
multiple ways: he always has a very good feel for how much of his lecture is
being understood and he quickly understands just what a student is asking and is able to give good answers, even if he over-fits the
question a little sometimes. :)
Professor is very enthusiastic about topic. Explained complicated
ideas well. Very willing to discuss ideas with students.
The programming assignments.
Concepts and their real-time
implementations. And the way of teaching by the professor
The best thing about this course
was the instructor's enthusiasm for the subject. It was extremely easy for me
to simply sit down and pay 100% attention throughout the lecture.
Additionally, the professor very often repeated ideas 3-4 times when he thought
they were important. This was actually a very
refreshing approach, as most other professors usually say something once and
expect it to be committed to memory instantly and permanently.
Also, the professor had tons of tie-ins to real life intelligence. After all,
we are trying to model real intelligence in AI, but it is easy to obsess over
the little things and forget the big picture. Relating back to real life was
great for this.
Rao is great at find a funny example to illustrate the idea. This
is very helpful. And he can alway find the
correlation between two different idea.
Taking this course convinced
me that an intro to AI course should be required as part of an undergraduate CS
curriculum. Pretty soon in industry, the problems being worked on by
programmers on a day-to-day basis will reach the complexity that only AI algorithms
even dare to touch. Without some background in AI, I think future students will
be lost on how to solve such problems.
Love your enthusiasm in this domain.
CEAS Averages:
Instructor: 4.71 (4.52 UG, 4.87 G) Course: 4.47 (4.13 UG; 4.75G)
This is one of the best classes
I've had during my undergrad period. It's extremely difficult,
but rewarding at the end.
My e-mail inbox was always filled with emails from the professor,
such a huge efforts taken by him for the course.
This course should made for 4-5 credits though.
One of the best course in ASU and one of the best profs in CIDSE.
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The mathematical base of the course. Professor was always well prepared,
tried to make us understand the concepts with various techniques.
Considerations from the professor about extending deadlines.
Consideration to have test #2 take home.
Mostly liked the way the
instructor presented the ideas. The class was engaging and interesting. I hope
to use some of the concepts learned in the class into my work in future.
The search algorithm techniques.
Video lectures made available to students always.
Professor's teaching and the
way in which he elucidated the ideas
The way the Professor
teaches even the most toughest of concepts makes it
extremely easy to understand.
The assignments were really good.
Very interesting topic.
Teacher gives good analogies and explanations to help students understand most
concepts.
The professor's way of
teaching the subject, his fairness in exams and projects, his availability to
answer questions, the range of content that was taught and the practical usage
of it.
The course material
supplemented the homework and projects very well.
The course covered many
interesting topics and Dr.Rao
was very enthusiastic.
The projects
CEAS Averages:
Instructor: 4.83 (4.54 UG, 4.89G) Course: 4.7 (4.28 UG; 4.78G)
CSE 598 Kambhampati
Instructor Evaluation Fall 2011
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Amazing Course.
Ridiculously amazing Professor :)
Overall this is the best class
and all the credits should go to Prof. Rao.
Overall this was one of the best
courses I have taken at ASU. The enthusiasm and clarity with which Dr. Rao
teaches various concepts, keeps you engaged (and awake :) )
in the class. His examples and analogies help in understanding and
remembering the concepts.
A big thanks to Dr. Rao ...
The professor is
absolutely brilliant.I
haven't come across a professor who is so knowledgeable and at the same time
puts so much effort in making sure he imparts the knowledge to the students.
More courses of this sort
for graduate students as they are limited to the number of cse598 they can
take and have very few courses like this in their graduate courses.
Subbarao Kambhampati is
really good professor and his teaching techniques
are exceptional.
Reignited my interest in
the topics.
This is the best course I
have taken at ASU
This is probably my favorite class that
I've taken in the CS school.
Great course
material. I feel like I got a basic understanding of the topics covered that
may drive future studies.
I have no words to praise
this professor.
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I liked a lot of things
about this course. This course covered a lot of interesting topics. The
projects were also very useful. They not only helped to learn the course topics
well but also made us involve into a lot of algorithms and logic while trying
to implement them. The professor was helpful when it came to sharing extra
topics and lot of other extra sources for learning. Also
the online lecture videos were made available for later reference was a huge
help.
The instructor's method of
teaching made the course very interesting. All the concepts taught were very
relevant. The project was tailored to the teachings in the class.
Presentation of subject
matters and projects
This course covered a broad range
of topics. the projects helped us understand these concepts even better. Dr.
Rao is an excellent instructor who keeps you engaged with good examples and
analogies. (and a lot of humor :) )
The course is very
interesting and informative.It
really helped understand all the current technologies.
Almost everything .... This
course is worth taking ...
The TA was really helpful.
Class was sometimes interesting, but there are times that it gets very in-depth
and complicated and that's when I get lost.
Audio & Video available online.
Cheat sheet for exam.
Take home final.
The information was very
relevant. It covered a wide array of topics all of which very useful and applicable
The course was very well
handled and one of the few best courses there is available in ASU.
Liked the manner
in which the classes, assignments and projects were synchronized. The
course itself is very interesting and the professor's impartation is excellent.
understanding of search
engine and realization that there is still lot of work in doing a better search
engine, and professor who made this realization possible.
The course is well organized and the
implementation of the projects makes understanding more clear and appreciate
the course.
The assignments are also very good and help to get clear picture of the course.
The instructor is the best
at ASU.
This course introduced me to
a lot of aspects of computer science which i was unaware
of. The instructor's efforts motivates the students to
do more in this course.
Entire course structure.
Project designing.
Course inherently is
exciting and interests me, added the professor is too good and gives various
ideas and thoughts to ponder upon
The subject material was new and
interesting, and professor Kambhampati made it very
accessible. I liked that we covered concepts and techniques that we could actually go home and implement, and that the projects
involved us building something that I would not have expected myself to be able
to make.
Applying Clustering for grade fairness
helps ease the tension of getting very low point-grades on tests.
Great material. Project was fairly
beneficial in gaining understanding of how to implement some of the topics
learned in class
The
topic and the professor
CEAS Averages:
Instructor: 4.78 (4.87 UG, 4.75G) Course: 4.59 (4.63 UG; 4.57G)
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CSE 494
Kambhampati Instructor Evaluation Spring 2010
23 What did you like
most about this course?
Fun and interesting topics. My brain is now crammed full of new
knowledge. The programming assignments were fun albeit very long.
Rao
actually cares. Unlike most of the professors in the
CS school, he actually learns who his students are,
and actually enjoys the topic he's teaching.
He actively fought to get the class dual-listed as a grad and
undergrad class. He's probably my favorite professor that I've had while
attending ASU.
The way the ideas were introduced and how emphasis was given to
develop the "right" inuition.
It
did a good job of covering important areas in IR, Data Mining, and
information extraction. Many interesting and novel ideas were presented.
The
professor is obviously very intelligent and interested/expert in many diverse
areas. That breadth of knowledge was fun to see.
The content, way of presentation, project, open environment.
The teacher was very excited, and I learned many new things.
Also, putting videos on the website was excellent.
inspires
thinking, and broadens vision.
25 Comments
This is a fantastic course on interesting topics taught by
somebody who actually cares.
More classes should be like this. More professors should be like
this!
The
instructor is top-class. The course has increased my breadth-wise
knowledge of computer science. It has done a lot of good to my
self-confidence.
Thanks Rao for offering this awesome
course. Keep up the good work.
The information in this class is invaluable and I'm glad to know
it. Making data mining a pre-req for this course would save time
and allow the professor to get to everything without having to
extend all of his classes.
nice
course.. exceptional instructor whose teaching
skills make difficult topics easy to understand..
suggestion - asu or atleast
cs dept should record such courses (courses taken by prof rao)
and make them freely available.. similar to mit ocw..
excellent
course overall
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CEAS Averages: Instructor: 4.54 Course: 3.64
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CSE 571 Instructor
Evaluation Fall 2009
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Subbarao Kambhampati
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SLN: 86301
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23 What did you
like most about this course?
Learn the approaches for intelligent
solutions for well known problems
The best thing about this course was the
wide array of topics that were covered in more than reasonable depth - the instructor
put in a lot of effort into preparing for each class and I think the
students benefitted from this.
Prof. Rao was good at asking the students'
opinions about the course. I like that he brought in relevant,
state-of-the-art material for us to read.
I like the fact that Professor Rao
introduced a wide array of AI related topics. I like the collaborative
framework established for student cross-pollination.
The professor thoroughly inspired as
students to think. The material was broad, but insightful. The lecture
style coupled with the project was ideal.
The papers and extra study material provide
by the professor where highly informative and
excellent. Prof's way of relating the theory of subjects to real world
examples and their practical application made the whole subject fun and
comprehensible.
I
like the fact that the professor does not make it a completely mathematical
course, and that he tries to tell the actual logic behind the problem. I
appreciate the fact that this course does not have homeworks,
thus allowing us to listen for understanding only, not for picking up tips
for homeworks.
The paper reading was quite useful. The blog, not so much.
Artificial Intelligence has always been an
area of interest to me.
I
find the topic interesting and worth learning. The instructor is always
well prepared and makes excellent points.
The
lectures should be youtubed cause
I rarely catch everything he is trying to say on the first pass.
I
liked the self directed
project but in any cases where projects are directed by students there is
going to be a
high
variance in the amount of effort people spend. In a class as general as
"advanced AI" this may be inevitable.
25 Comments
Even though I prefer applications and
projects over lectures, this class managed to make lectures enjoyable sans
projects.
I liked this course very much!
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CEAS Averages: Instructor: 4.52 (4.4 UG,
4.74G) Course: 4.37 (4.3
UG; 4.5G)
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CSE 471 Instructor
Evaluation Spring 2009
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Subbarao
Kambhampati
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SLN: 15499
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23 What did you like most about this course?
The instructor all the way. His
style of teaching, making connections across course topics to create a big
picture, his examples and last but not the least his wit. It was a fun ride
through the semester and he really covered the
breadth of the vast field of AI
This is one of the most
exciting courses in the department! Unlike other courses that form the basis
of a field of study, this course is (sort of) at the top of the food chain,
so the concepts that we learnt in various other fields are applied here to solve
practical problems and create systems that are truly useful.
The course material covered by
Prof Rao and the examples and analogies that he uses to teach. Project and homeworks of Prof Rao are really challenging.
A very good introduction
course, which covers a broad spectrum of sub-topics with adequate depth in
each topic. Always a fun course, when it is taken by Rao.
Almost everything.
Dr. Kambhampati is an excellent instructor. He knows the material; he
expresses the ideas well; and his enthusiasm for the topic is contagious.
The instructor was very
knowledgeable and enthusiastic.
Dr Rao's treatment of the subject matter was exceptional, where many
professors might have over indulged in mathematics
to explain the inner workings of the systems, he explained everything
logically and rationally. This helped all of us clearly understand the inner
working of the subject and gain an appreciation for it.
Excellent projects. They're
difficult, but not too difficult. It's nice that he gives us a
"framework" of lisp code, and then we finish it up. Also, I liked
the use of the blog and the thinking cap questions. It's really
nice to struggle with a hard problem and know that if you don't get
it, but just post what you're thinking, you won't get a bad grade. It allows
you to "think out load" sort of.
It had a lot of interesting
topics and it mad us correlate what we learn with
our everyday life way of thinking. The curving based on all students.
Programs were difficult but
fun.
Projects were hard but good.
Loved the professor as a
lecturer.
Great professor, explained
everything, learned tons of stuff.
25 Comments
Excellent course. Professor's reputation is well earned. It's
always awe inspiring to learn from someone who's flat out brilliant.
Sometimes it's hard to keep up, but I really like being challenged.
I can't say it enough. This is an excellent course, and all CS students
should take it. They'll come out of this class much more well
rounded.
The instructor is full of enthusiasm in teaching the
topics and with his humorous examples and analogies, makes boring topics too
interesting. The course keeps you on your toes for the entire semester and
sometimes you just wonder whether this is the only course you have taken in
the entire semester. The assignments and projects of Prof Rao are really
challenging. Tough to survive through Prof Rao's class.
Great course. Must take when
Dr. Rao is teaching it.
Overall, an excellent course.
Rao is a pretty good teacher.
This subject was very easily
able to excite my interest. It gave a channel in which all the concepts we
have learnt earlier come to fruition in creating something truly useful. The
projects and homeworks were challenging, and
successfully completing them gave us a feeling of triumph.
I enjoyed this thoroughly.
Over all i
liked the class, but wish that I had more time to just learn the material
than sitting there doing homework and projects
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CEAS Averages: Instructor: 4.52 (4.28 UG; 4.56 G) Course:
4.27 (4.04UG;4.31G)
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CSE 494
Kambhampati Instructor Evaluation Fall 2008
23 What did you like most about
this course?
Dr. Rao expresses his ideas clearly and make the course more
interesting by giving good analogies.
I liked a lot that the instructor tried to give the students a
look over the rim. It was not only about the techniques, but also about the
way how we accept search engines like Google that might be good, but still
not perfect (and we consider them as perfect).
Furthermore, the course gave me a good insight into information retrieval and
how mathematics can be applied in such an environment.
Getting to learn from Rao is in itself a very nice experience.
Very
interesting material, professor is passionate about the course and
communicates information with enthusiasm...and his own biases and
interpretations of reality as the truth as well. Nevertheless, he's fairly entertaining.
the content was high quality
I have a learnt lot of new concepts in this course.
The projects were, undoubtedly, the best part. They helped me to
deepen my understanding of the topics.
The breadth of the course. The detail of the background for
seemingly simple approaches is
amazing.
I enjoyed learning about concepts that I can put
to use in personal projects in the future.
The course is very much linked to the new technological
advancements in the field of computer science
I liked the topics on Latent Semantic Indexing and
Classification related topics. The Search Engine project really helped
understand the concepts taught in class better. This course provides a very
good base for IR and data mining.
Interesting subject matter.
This
is a very interesting course which gives awesome background to everyday tools
that we take for granted (i.e. Search Engines).
25
Comments
Rao is a
excellent teacher, communicate the ideas thoroughly. He is the most well prepared teacher I have ever come across
Be
prepared to pull many all-nighters!!!!!!
People say that the professor gives more work to do, tough
course etc., In the beginning even I felt the same but after a month I felt
the course is simple because the first month I was recollecting linear
algebra, which is a pre-requisite.
Assignments: All the assignments are straight forward. Dr. Rao gives an
example in the class and you would have to solve a
similar thing in the assignment. You can always go to audio and slides to
know what he said in class If you feel you don't remember.
Project: The course becomes really simple if you
know Java. My advice for students who will be takeing
this course in coming years would be "learn Java" before taking the
course. You don't need to spend more than 3 days for the entire(includes
all the phases) project.
For people who felt you did more work - "More work is directly
proportional to amount of knowledge you get" I bet no one in the class
would deny this :)
This is one of the best courses offered in ASU.
Okay, I know, I wrote a lot. What should I say? I learned quite
a lot in this course. It is not my favorite topic, but still an interesting
thing. My final grade won't be the best I think. In
a certain way, one could argue that my grade reflects my attitude to this
course. On the other hand I wonder, if there is a
way of getting a good grade, even if one just want to have a glimpse at IR
and not dedicating the whole semester to it ;)
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CSE 574 Instructor Evaluation Spring 2008
23 What did you like most about this
course?
Interesting topic, enthusiastic instructor. Very broad scope.
The materials covered in the class are very interesting. The
ideas given by the instructor are very insightful.
The structuring as a "true" graduate class.
The
instructor. The way he teaches and makes the students understand is just
amazing. Clear thoughts, highly enthusiastic, great knowledge about the area
and a really good teacher. The readings for each
class which might seem kind of confusing before class is just "totally
understood" after the class. Each class makes you think and learn new
concepts, all credits to the instructor. Makes every topic interesting and
can talk about anything a student can ask for. I just wanted the class to go for ever!
25
Comments
An
excellent course for AI lovers. The instructor is just too good, amazing
teacher and highly knowledgeable. Great learning experience and the best
class I have taken so far. I wish there were some more classes!
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CEAS Averages: Instructor: 4.74 (4.81UG;4.71G) Course: 4.37 (4.26 UG; 4.42 G)
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CSE 471
Kambhampati Instructor Evaluation Fall 2007
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Subbarao
Kambhampati
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SLN:
85349
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23 What did you
like most about this course?
Instructor
par-excellence- very knowledgeable and creative with an outstanding sense of
humor and very clear concepts. Extremely good examples given to explain concepts(nobody else can make the topic so clear).The
instructor always promptly answered mails.
Very interesting course which motivates you towards AI. You learn a lot from
the course.Highly
recommended course(If you havent taken this course,
you are missing something in life).
Instructor, Unbelievably good at
communicating his ideas! Just makes the subject and class a magic!
The
lectures were good--it was actually more time
efficient to learn something by going to the lecture than by attempting to
learn it myself, which is a refreshing change from some courses I've taken.
Also, the instructor used humor in an appropriate way to enhance presentation
of material.
Extra discussions carried out through the blog, and programming
assignments.
And the enthusiasm and efforts of the instructor.
The pro activeness of the teacher to reach out to the students.
The high quality teaching
Just one word AWESOME and Rao rocks
The lecture is a good researcher in this topic
Materials are very nice, homeworks are
useful.
The subject matter was interesting.
This was my first AI course and I enjoyed how it related to many
other classes that I've taken, such as the algorithms classes, statistics and
probability, as well as philosophy.
1.
despite the difficulty of the projects they were defiantly a great learning
tool.
2. the humor injected into the lectures by the instructor helped hold my
attention during class and in some cases aided in my understanding of a topic
25
Comments
Overall a great introductory
course to AI.
I wouldn't miss any course taught by Rao! Rao is just wow!
Good prof/good assignments/too demanding
After
taking this course , my specialization is now AI,
that expalins everything
I
wish I had attended more classes.
overall i enjoyed this class despite the
difficulty
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CEAS Averages: Instructor: 4.82 (4.78 UG; 4.83 G) Course:
4.63 (4.58UG;4.64G)
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CSE 598
Kambhampati Instructor Evaluation Spring 2007
23 What did you like most about this course?
Instructor, Instructor, Instructor. This course is all
about what Rao makes it.
Quite seriously, Rao makes this course funner than
it already is, what with
exploring the frontiers of the web and all. I'm pretty sure I'm not going to
forget Pagerank or why K-Means is random for quite
some time.
And the Google-baiting - the icing on the cake :)
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Enthusiastic instruction of a very interesting topic.
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Breadth of coverage of concepts which gives a very
holistic view of Information
retrieval and mining on the internet
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the homeworks were interesting
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projects gave a good exposre to web search
techniques ...
the course touched lot of topics ..and still depth
was satisfactory
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An excellent course. The best course I have ever taken in
my Masters. I enjoyed
each and every lecture and it was wonderful.
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Instructor's enthusiasm in the first place, the project
was amazing and added
confidence in building large scale system in a fixed time.
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1. It's breadth AND depth - I learned so much!
2. Hands down the best slides I've seen for a course
3. Reading material - interesting papers available before being published
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The projects are very good.
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It's related to my research. Through it, I really deepen
my understanding of
knowledge in the related area.
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Linking the class metrial to
real world applications, and discussion of cutting
edge research in the class as conference papers etc. Dicussing
and clarrifying
mathmatical concepts are relating to applications,
which really helps to
clarrify certain ideas.
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The way of teaching.
25 Comments
A wonderful course. I would usually go home with 1 or 2
new ideas after every
class. Great learning experience.
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This course must be offered every semester for many
students benefit
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Dr.Kambhampati is an amazing
instructor I've ever come across, and the matter
presented in the course is very up-to-date. But somehow, compared to AI class
this class is less energetic, may be because some of the material looks
trivial and
not much technical difficulty is involved, unlike in AI.
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One of the best courses I've ever taken.
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Really good course!
Really great instructor.
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Great class. Enjoyed it and learned much.
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The instructor is so smart, enthusiastic about work and
good at teaching. It is
really challenging and even burdensome to follow the classes and deal with
all the
required tasks, but I leant a lot. My experience of this course--''Both pain
and
gain."
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CEAS Averages: Instructor: 4.51 (4.34 UG; 4.67 G) Course:
4.18 (3.83UG;4.49G)
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25 Comments
Overall, I'd rate this as the best CS course I've taken, period.
Dr. Rao is
among the top professors in terms of his ability to teach and communicate
difficult ideas clearly. This course was HARD but it
was certainly fair and
well worth the extreme effort I had to put into this elective.
Rao for demi-god-hood. The course was
extremely hard. But it was enlightening,
educational and entertaining. I wish I had or could take more course both
from the
instructor and in the field. Rao is in the top two of my favorite instructors
here at
ASU-CSE and one of the few from whom I'd deliberately take another course.
One of the best classes I've ever had. Great teacher, great
material. I would
recommend this class to any CS major that isn't scared of putting in hard
work
to see great results come out at the end.
Well over all
courses satisfaction is very high . The enthusiasm
of instructor
is a thing to learn from the courses.
Every now then prof was putting insights to current work going on in some
areas
and also links to other areas which gives a better understanding of wats
going
on around .
A
course by Rao..
itz just WOW !!
interesting readings he recommends,
we understand better every single depiction !!
Flawless way the lecture blends,
without a single point of contradiction !
For all the gr8 effort he spends,
his classes are a sure benediction !
But as this fascinating journey ends,
oops.. they've now become an addiction !!
Prof Rao.. you're just woww
!!!
The Sanskrit saying is 'Na bhooto, na bhavishyati', which means:
'There has not
been and there never will be', used to describe something or someone that is
matchless or unique.. both the instructor and this
course qualify to be so...
Great
class overall.
Very
good course. Very challenging. Unusual but more than fair grading policy.
Dr Kambhampati has a real enthusiasm for teaching. Even though
the topics were
difficult, he made it fun.
This course is an excellent start to students interested in A.I
Very good introductory course to artificial intelligence
Can I take it a second time without doing his homeworks and projects?
23 What did you like most about
this course?
Dr. Rao made this course the success it was. This course did an
excellent job
exposing me to the field of AI and showing me a depth to the field I was not
aware existed. The course was mostly a high-level overview of the field due
to
the vast breadth of AI, but he covered it well and made it make sense. The
instruction was extremely well done and that's what made every class worth
attending.
The entire course was wonderful, but the best part was the level
of humor added to
learning what is some very difficult material.
Learning about logic (especially probabilistic), planning and
search.
Great subject! Teacher is very enthusiastic about the material
and does a great
job in getting the students to not only be excited about learning,
but gives out
optional learning material to help take the course outside of classroom and
further the students grasp of the material.
- The enthusiasm of Dr. Rao to present interesting topics to the
students
- The enthusiasm of Dr. Rao to encourage us to be interested in AI field
- I liked the topics of A* algorithm
- I liked how the answers of the homework were posted afterwards
Very interesting topics. Instructor very knowledgable
and motivated.
Interesting material, enthusiastic presentation.
Adversarial search with Alpha-beta pruning was really the most
interesting
concept we learned in my opinion.
The
instructor's creative methods and ideas -- I think Rao makes the subject
matter related to AI come alive with his innovative presentation ideas in
class and
the way he puts the subject across to students, especially first time pursuants of
AI.
He also makes the very good point that the demands and quality of a course
should certainly never be dictated by the place at which the course is being
offered, and should instead strive for a level on
par with the best universities.
The subject matter was interesting. The textbook was pretty clear. The
instructor is very nice and cool.
The subjects. Programming projects.
the
prof
The
instructor teaches well indeed.
best part of this course are homework questions and assignments
which enhance
the understanding greately.
Wide range of topics covered.
Grading
Instructor's Enthusiasm
Prof Rao's enthusiasm in teaching is excellent and it makes the
course very
interesting. He covers every relevant topic in detail and keeps the students
interested with clever and frequently humorous analogies and metaphors. The
textbook and course contents complement each other well.
The instructor itself, you should surely meet him.
The way Rao teaches this class.
The course structure was well designed.
breadth and depth of courses was balanced.
projects were really interested.
The
engaging lectures, sheer enthusiasm Prof Rao puts in, the flawless
explanation of concepts, wonderful way of communication, fascinating projects
and the feeling we get finally after this enthusing journey of AI course that
we
learnt a lott...
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Imagine sitting in an engaging Rao's class,
an hour seems like a minute !
where as sitting in any other class lecture,
a minute seems like an hour..
............. that is Relativity !!! :-P
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CEAS Averages: Instructor: 4.84 (4.94 UG; 4.80 G) Course: 4.58 (4.86UG;4.46G)
What did you like most about this
course?
Dr. Kambhampati is an outstanding instructor.
Even though I learned many
techniques that I am already using on the job, taking the course just to have a
class from him would have been worth it.
Excellent instructor with a good
sense of humor. One gets the impression that
he really knows what he talking about, it excites him,
etc.
Posting the audio lecture on the web was extremely kind and useful, even for
those students who always attended class. In several instances, it was useful
in disambiguating information and was always handy as a reference to return to
in case of confusion (and in a course like this, there's always some level of
confusion!).
The projects were difficult but very educational. The final product of a search
engine with a handful of features was an accomplishment to be proud of.
Definitely one of the better programming projects I've
written for a class.
The smorgasboard of topics covered and, more
importantly and amazingly, how they
all fit together. To call this a survey course would be an understatement.
Rao's courses are consistently the hardest courses that I have taken -- and also
the courses I learn the most in.
The last-homework-is-the-final-exam was appreciated.
The lack of student presentations/student research projects was appreciated.
The "capstone" aspect of the course - pulling together a
lot of different
subjects - makes it a unique course and keeps the interest high. I wish the
department offered more like it.
Instructor always related the course content to real applications
and hence, it was
fun learning in class. Projects were very helpful, though bit difficult. But it
was fun
working on them.
Projects were very challenging and helped us undertand
the internal working of a
search engine along with the engineering issues involved. The course connected
many different computer science areas like IR, Machine Learning, Databases and
the interactions were really fascinating. Many of things we were using but
didn't
know how they worked now makes more sense.
CEAS Averages: Instructor: 4.55 Course: 4.02
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The approach of
connecting progression, regression, plan space, refinement
planning, htn planning, and any other form of planning under a
unifying framework --
while still
retaining the ability to examine specific syntactic differences.
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The wide variety of
interesting ideas in the field, which I was relatively
unfamiliar with.
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Stimulating course
material.
Instructor
enthusiasm and teaching style.
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The subject. The
professor.
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The presentation of
the course material is wonderful. Some of the topics were
explained so well
that it would have taken me significant amount of time to read
and understand them
on my own. The NASA talk was very helpful in understanding
the applications of
some methodologies discussed in the class. It helped us
(the graduate
students) in understanding how the research community works in
general, what are
the several issues involved, how an area like planning evolved
over time, how
several researchers have misconceptions about some topics and how
they were resolved,
and lot of other things. Overall, the course gave a good
insight into the
area of AI the instructor was successful in engaging the
students to learn
about the cutting-edge research. I would recommend this
course to each and every graduate student in computer science.
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I liked the breadth
of topics related to planning which were covered in this course.
Liked the term
project concept.
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Projects and homeworks assignment made the concepts clear and also helped to
explore new
research areas.
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Learning would have
been an interesting topic too. :)
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Excellent class,
but way too much course load. This is excellent preparation
for a grad student
who wants to get into research, but not so much for someone
working fulltime
who just wants to learn about AI planning.
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A true graduate
level research course
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CEAS Averages: Instructor: 4.58 Course: 4.34 Overall: 4.5
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I thoroughly enjoyed the topics relating to collaborative and content based filtering, latent semantic indexing, and page rank.� The papers that formed the bulk of the literature for the course provided stimulating reading.� Class was always enjoyable because the instructor was very well prepared and gave powerful insights in the topics that were covered.� He definitely added value to the written materials that the course covered.� The projects were very amusing and the level of detail that was required provided ample opportunity for intellectual growth. |
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Learning about and applying "bleeding-edge" information retrieval techniques. Learning about the merging of traditional structured databases and unstructured text and the management of such systems. |
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I liked the presentation of the course material.� I am already familiar with some of the topics presented, but the instructor provided a different perspective to what I already know.� I greatly appreciate the instructor's enthusiasm towards the course.� He is highly motivated to make this course best and that really has a constructive impact on the students.� I wish all the instructors were like this :) I also liked how he related the in-class material with what is happening outside in the real world.� Time to time, he tried his best to keep the course material as up-to-date as possible.� I also liked how he brought his phylosophy and principles into the homework and midterm questions.� I love his homework and midterm questions (even though I wasn't able to answer them to perfection), because they not only cover the technical aspects of the course material but they also reflect the instructor's principles towards spiritual and psychological things.� One more thing is the metaphors that he uses to explain certain concepts.� I always get amazed by how clear his ideas are on any given topic.� Wake him up in the middle of night and ask him a question on any topic from the course, I am 200% confident that he will explain immediately without any hesitation.� Since he is very strong in his fundamentals and the course material, he was able to relate the topics to the real words aspects and explain very well.� The last thing is the course projects.� If not for this course, I wouldn't have sit and implemented vector space ranking, pagerank, auth/hubs and clustering algorithms.� Even though one is clear about the algorithms, implementing them and testing on realworld data and analyzing the results yields a satisfying experience.� Finally the TA's were awesome.� They were very helpful and gave constructive feedback on the homeworks and projects.� Their comments were very helpful.� They were available for any questions outside the class time and office hours. |
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Amazing instructor. The instructor is VERY VERY reasonable and DEFINTELY understands the students issues. He is very enthusiastic in the class which is a motivating factor. The course material was "CURRENT" and the material was excellently presented. |
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I liked the fact that there was no definitive text book for the course. I liked the approach of teaching from published papers. It was a very challenging course, and was tough. |
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Overall, I would rate this course as one of the best courses I have taken but not as good as the other course (Intro to AI) offered by the same instructor.� The syllabus of the course is decent and I guess it would change according to the latest developments in the field in its next offering.� I would like to see more lectures on databases/information retrieval intersection.� The connection is interesting and possibly there could be one course project on this area.� A project on db/ir connection would certainly elevate the students' understanding on database concepts and at the same time would provide good insight into ir concepts.� Raspberry Bars are awesome!!!� This tradition should continue... |
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It might be worth thinking about splitting the course into two different courses. One on information retrieval and the other on integration issues. Not only would this allow a more detailed look at each topic, but the projects could be more involved as well. |
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Thank you for a fantastic class.� It was great and very enlightening. |
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Kambhampati is the best professor at ASU. Hands down. I've had him two semesters in a row. |
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CSE 471/598 [Fall 2003] [Course page: http://rakaposhi.eas.asu.edu/cse471
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CEAS Averages: Instructor: 4.73
Course: 4.35
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instructor's
enthusiasm and clear passion for the topics discussed
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Interesting
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What was there not
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Rao uses real world
examples, metaphores, stories, philosophies and
experiences to
supplement an otherwise complex and at times
frustrating topic
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This was an
interesting course with an excellent instructor.
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Everything. This is
by far the best CSE course I have ever taken.
I learned something
new every day, the instructor was well prepared
and funny. He also
did a good job of sensing when he was
losing/boring the
class and would switch tactics or subjects
accordingly.
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Rao is an
enthusiastic instructor. He took great care to prepare
materials
(PowerPoint slides) for each lecture. He was very
approachable via
email and quick to respond with help for homework
and projects, even
at odd hours. I thought the midterm was fair
test that
adequately covered the lecture and reading material from
the first half of
the semester.
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Covered a lot of
material and demanded a lot from the students. I
learrned a lot of material.
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Teacher was a cool
guy, funny, made lectures interesting. Teacher
tried to make accomodations for students, and
was pretty flexible.
Instructor takes
feedback seriously and implements it.
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As an avid SF
reader, I have read about AI for years. I finally
wanted to see where
reality was. While you will notice that the time
spent was the least
favorite, I WOULD NOT change anything. While I
do not know if I
could handle it, it would be refreshing to find all
coursework so
stimulating (even if I cannot figure out why when it
was well presented,
I grasped such a "mediocre" amount of this.
Maybe in a week or
two it will be clear ;)
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The instructor.
EASILY the best professor I've ever had. Incredibly
engaging during
class. Used a combination of slides, board learning,
and lecture to
communicate ideas to students. Personally, I think
that's the best
method of teaching. Frequent homeworks/projects made
sure that students were
actually learning. Frequently sent e-mails
with additional
notes on various subjects.
Oh yeah, the
raspberry bars were great, too.
Take care, Dr. Rao.
If there's an award for best CS instructor, you
should win it.
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I liked the
enthusiasm and high-quality efforts that instructor puts
in this class. For
a change (or let me rephrase that �for the first
time ever) I saw an
instructor who just didn't come to class and read
PowerPoint slides
and leave. The projects were great and made
material more
interesting. Discussion in class was very thought
provoking and
interesting...ohh also I recommend this class to all
those lonely people
out there who feel that they are not
loved....just take Prof.Rao's class
and you will get 10 email from
him everyday ;)
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Learning about
variety and techniques in AI, how it relates and can
be applied into
other fields. It provided a meaning for previous
courses like
CSE310, where concepts are taught, but in AI, they are
put to a test. Many
of the learnings can be applied into even day-to-
day life. Dr. Rao
showed great enthusiasm into the class and created
a lot of followers.
He was ALWAYS available, by eMail or in person,
and so were the
T.A.s. Rao. He also facilitated extra sessions for
help in lectures
and projects. He facilitated the tools needed for
comprehension. We
were not short of communication, two days would'nt
pass without an eMail from Dr.
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The instructor
showed enthusiasm to teach the course and always
motivated students
to learn. I liked the course slides very much
(especially the
intro slide in every class). Overall, it is a
wonderful course
and I (think) I learnt a lot of useful stuff.
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In my best comic book store guy impression. "Best class _ever_"
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Rao is one of the
best CS teachers at ASU. Very demanding class but
worth it.
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Had to give you a
"poor" on #6 not because weight is unfair, but
because we have no
idea how weight is determined.
Nice job, Dr. Rao.
I can't stand your grading system, but other than
that you're a darn
good teacher.
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While we might all
be stressed out and occasionally wish we had less
homework/assignments,
the even-tempered approach and "relentless"
push to drive us to
complete your assignements, was overall good. It
was good that you
surveyed "stress level" and published grade
standings as while
I took this class to fulfill a "dark" hunger for
knowledge about AI,
my own personal fears about failing an "elective"
class relentlessly
hounded me throughout the semester (and until I
get my grades ;) )
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The large workload
was tough to handle, but it stimulated learning.
I was able to make
sure that I knew various subjects by testing my
knowledge
frequently.
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I definitely learned a lot. Liked the class. Dr. Rao was very
helpfull.
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The course is very
good as it is now. It'll be good it gets updated
everytime it is offered to
cover latest developments in the area.
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Prof.Rao is Jonathan
Livingstone Seagull.
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CSE
574 [Spring 2003] [Course page: http://rakaposhi.eas.asu.edu/cse574]
CEAS Averages: Instructor: 4.89
Course: 4.43 Overall: 5.0
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All
of
the material was very thought provoking and interesting. I
thoroughly enjoyed
the subject of temporal planning and especially
liked the chance to
create my own classic and temporal domains. All
of the projects and
homeworks were well thought out and allowed me to
discover some of
the ideas and concepts on my own rather than
memorizing them
from the lecture.
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I liked the
instructor's ability to communicate ideas through use of
real-life examples
of theory.
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The way teacher
communicated ideas.
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Great course, great
lectures. Every class was full of enthusiam and
had loads of crazy,
funny, and great examples.
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Very good
instructor and course content , he teaches from
the
basics
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Homeworks and projects were very challenging and
useful to
understand the
subject in-depth
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I took CSE471 with
Dr. Kambhampati some time ago and enjoyed it. I
always wanted to
take the planning class but missed it in the past due
to time
constraints. I am glad it was offered again and hope that it
can be offered at
least once a year. This topic is interesting,
thought-provoking,
and practical. Plus, Dr. Kambhampati is one of the
best instructors
I've had. His lectures needed little outside
clarification
(which I think explains his sometimes-spoken-about empty
office during his
office hours. :) ). The slides are a great help
and
the note-taking
program is helpful in that it keeps students involved
in the class.
Thank you.
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The course helped
me fill in a lot of holes in my understanding of
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application of criteria for grading wasn't really
clear, however I am
not sure whether this is a
advantage or
disadvantage.
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CSE
494 [Fall 2002] [Course page: http://rakaposhi.eas.asu.edu/cse494]
CEAS Averages: Instructor: 4.72
Course: 4.48 Overall: 4.47
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Phenomenal instructor. Very enthusiastic and passionate about the topics covered. Topics are current and constantly updated. |
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Too much to list.� Excellent Professor.� 'nuff said Surprisingly, I liked the "Stanfordness" of the course.� No textbook, read the papers, listen to the lectures, wimps can leave anytime. |
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This course was very very interesting. I have never had a course which was this intense. Too much work but I enjoyed it! |
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great teacher, the best i have had so far, great subject matter also. |
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The Class was interactive and the instructor was very helpful and made sure that the subject was understood |
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I would recommend this course to anyone because I think introduces concepts that can be used in many areas of CS. Also, even though I didn't care for the matrix math much, I learned more about the subject in this class then I did in the Linear Alg. class!� |
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Dr. K is hardcore.� Keep it up. |
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Dr. Rao has been one of the best instructors I have ever had. I loved this course and the way he taught it. |
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CSE
471 [Fall 2001] [Course page: http://rakaposhi.eas.asu.edu/cse471
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CEAS Averages: Instructor: 4.58
Course: 4.32 Overall: 4.70
· WOW he is the best prof I
have had at ASU & he has inspired me more than just in AI &
academically I wish all my classes were fun w/ real-life practical examples
· Professor made the class
very enjoyable and entertaining. At the same time, he made the material easy to
understand and apply
· It was nice to see a prof.
that demonstrated great enthusiasm for the subject. Presentations were much
better than most other classes. Difficult to find a prof. like this at ASU
· The course gave a purpose to
past courses in algorithms. [..]
· Interesting. Actually practical. Organized.
· Projects explored concepts
w/o bogging down in details of coding
· The instructors enthusiam for the subject. Great visual aids. Instructor
cares about students actually learning
· I liked the information on
the course. Very interesting.
CSE
574 [Spring 1999]
CEAS Averages:
Instructor: 4.65 Course: 4.52 Overall:4.56
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