MIS 752 Labs

Three ways to do each lab. Same idea; pick the one that fits you.

🎓 In class: the Colab notebook you submit 🔀 Bonus: a short, fun extra (about 15 minutes) 🟢 No code: runs in your browser, nothing to install

Week	Topic	🎓 In class	🔀 Bonus	🟢 No code
Week 6Sep 28	Tool calling	Order the Lab	Can your model call a tool?	Why AI needs tools
Week 7Oct 5	AI evaluation	Catch the AI Lying	How often does it make things up?	Can you trust the grade?
Week 8Oct 12	RAG: looking things up	Answer the Patient	Naive RAG in thirty lines	Look it up, show the page
Week 9Oct 19	Agents	Build the Paperwork Machine	Which models can be agents?	The agent loop
Week 10Oct 26	Safety and guardrails	Make It Say No	Break the guardrail	Guardrails side by side
Week 11Nov 2	Fine-tuning	Send It to Fellowship	LoRA on a pair of eyes	Fine-tuning, before and after
Week 12Nov 9	Voice and vision	Voice: the scribe Vision: skin lesions	Can it hear you? Can it see you?	Looking and listening
Week 13Nov 16	Capstone kickoff	Round on One Patient	An expert on one book	One chart, one assistant

Weeks 14-16 have no new lab: Thanksgiving, capstone build week, and capstone demos.
Weeks 1-5 and the extra notebooks are in each week's Canvas module.
No-code labs: paste your free OpenRouter key from Lab 1. It stays in your browser tab and is never saved.
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