Welcome to Introduction to Algorithms, Fall 2001 Handouts 1. Course Information 2. Calendar 3. Registration (MIT students only) 4. References 5. Objectives and Outcomes 6. Diagnostic Survey
The mahalanobis distance in Character Recognition Authored by Dan Frey 31 July 98 This sheet explores the use of the Mahalanobis Distance in character It defines a letters a.b.c. and d It creates a population of distorted letters to train a classifier
Final Project Questions Let's take up to an hour to Review progress answer questions Referencing sources in the term project Direct quotes-- Place in quotes or indent and cite source in footnote or reference
Plan for the session Quiz on Constructing Orthogonal Arrays (10 minutes) Complete some advanced topics on oas Lecture on Computer Aided robust design Recitation on hw#5 Robust system design
Plan for the session Guest lecture by Eric Feron(1 hour) Quiz on Design of Dynamic Systems(15 minutes Review of reliability Improvement Case Study --Router Bit Life(35 minutes) 16.881
Learning objectives Introduce explore orthogonality Study the standard oas Practice computing dOF of an experiment Learn how to select a standard oa Introduce means to modify Oas Consider studying interactions in Oas Robust System Design
Proposed Schedule Changes · Switch lecture No quiz Informal (ungraded) presentation of term project ideas Read Phadke ch. 7-- Construction Orthogonal Arrays -Quiz on ANOVA Noise experiment due Robust System Design
Background SDM split-summer format M Heavily front-loaded Systems perspective Concern with scaling Product development track, CIPD Place in wider context of product realization Joint 16(Aero/Astro)and 2(Mech E) Robust system design
