Friday 29 January 2010

The countdown has started!

The last semester of my university degree has started and I am very satisfied with the choices of modules I made. The two modules are Software Agents and Sound Processing.

The Sound Processing one contains physics and mathematics. We will be looking at Fast Fourier Transform (FFT). In the first lecture I revisited waves in physics and all the related formulas, learnt the anatomy of the human ear, coded waves, unified them and reproduced their sounds using MATLAB.

For the Software Agents module I will have to build a system with an agent (or a Multi-Agent system) that learns from the environment. I will focus on Machine Learning and more specifically on Reinforcement Learning.

I am also progressing with my dissertation, implementing the fitness function of the genetic algorithm.