Applied Artificial Intelligence (WS 14/15)
What happened to Artificial Intelligence (AI)? In the 1970s, researchers expected soon machines to be more intelligent than humans thus revolutionizing society and civilization. Only a few years later they had to admit that, for a computer, it is harder to reason like a five-year-old than to play a game of chess. The AI hype burst.
And today?
Unnoticed (and often not under the keyword "AI"),AI applications have become ubiquitous in our everyday lifes:
- Speech control in cars, mobile phones, etc.
- Face recognition in cameras
- (Learning) Spam classification in e-mail clients
- AI in computer games
- Semantic search of the Internet
- Machine translation services in the Internet
- Not to speak of numerous professional AI applications as business intelligence, robotics, etc.
So, AI applications are relevant - reason enough to offer a course on AI.
AI courses have a long history in Computer Science departments. Many of those courses focus on the theory behind AI. This course "Applied AI" has a different focus: the architecture and development of AI applications with state-of-the-art technology, languages, and tools.
Lectures
Lectures and lab sessions will be interwoven. The lecture is structured as follows (current lecture slides for download):
- Introduction
- Knowledge Representation
- Queries
- AI Application Architecture
- Information Retrieval
- Agents
- Natural Language Processing
- Machine Learning
- Computer Vision
- Summary
Video recordings of the lectures under https://lernen.h-da.de/course/view.php?id=2994 , Enrolment key apartinws2014 (login with h_da user id and password)
Laboratory
In this course, you will, in teams, implement an AI application for a digital museum and will research and learn all methods and technology necessary.
The lab sessions are interlaced with the lecture (Mo., 12:00 – 15:45 each week)
Please, bring your own notebook if you own one. You need h_da WLAN access.
Assignments:
- Introduction
- Knowledge Representation
- Queries
- AI Application Architecture
- Information Retrieval
- Agents
- Natural Language Processing
- Machine Learning
- Computer Vision
- Summary
Material
- SVN Repository URL: subversion.h-da.de/svn/fbi/aai-ws2014/
- Protegé Ontology Editor: protege.stanford.edu