Important Links
- Brightspace (official syllabus and course grades) — open the Syllabus tab for the current official syllabus.
- Tentative course schedule (PDF)
- Piazza (announcements and discussion)
- Gradescope (all submissions and grades)
AI Product documents
- AI Product Student Guide (PDF)
- AI Product Milestone 1 Package (ZIP)
- Fillable AI Product Stakeholder Agreement (PDF)
- Fillable Shared Stakeholder Agreement (PDF)
- Stakeholder Discovery and Design Thinking (PDF) — Last updated September 9, 2026.
- Download Stanford’s Design Thinking Bootleg cards (PDF) (website). Start with Interview Preparation and Interview for Empathy (cards 3–4).
- Design Council’s Double Diamond: process overview.
Assignments
All graded work will be submitted through Gradescope. Assignment links will be added as they are released.
Dynamic Course Materials
These materials form a chronological, organized course outline. They are the latest cleaned-up versions and may be revised as the course develops.
- Artificial Intelligence in the Age of AI (PDF). See the syllabus and schedule links above.
- Scale Your Intelligence (PDF).
- Dimensionality Reduction: Motivation and Problem Setup (PDF).
- Linear Transformations: What Do They Do? (PDF).
- Reconstruction and Principal Component Analysis (PDF).
Frozen Lecture Slides By Day
These date-specific copies remain fixed even when the topic decks above are later revised.
- Monday, August 24: Artificial Intelligence in the Age of AI (PDF).
- Wednesday, August 26: Course Launch and Working Effectively with AI (PDF).
- Friday, August 28: Course Launch Completion and Scale Your Intelligence (PDF).
- Monday, August 31: Scale Your Intelligence: Six Operating Principles (PDF).
- Wednesday, September 2: Mental Models and High-Dimensional Representation (PDF).
- Friday, September 4: Dimensionality Reduction and Linear Transformations (PDF).
- Wednesday, September 9: Stakeholder Discovery and Linear Transformations (PDF).
- Friday, September 11: Linear Transformations and Reconstruction: Choosing a Decoder Basis (PDF).