| Title: |
Artificial Intelligence Seminar |
| Short Code: |
AISeminar |
| ECTS Credits: |
3 |
| UAS: |
ZHAW
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| Organizer Details: |
ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, School of Engineering, Institute for Applied Information Technologies (InIT), Winterthur, Switzerland |
| Evaluation: |
Oral presentations (~30 min.), Writing of several blog posts, active participation |
| Decision Date: |
18 February 2022 |
| Start Date: |
21 February 2022 |
| End Date: |
8 July 2022 |
| Date Details: |
We meet roughly every 3rd week throughout the semester for colloquia (discussions in a group setting), concluded by a final presentation of each participant. Each colloquium deals with a specific scholarly issue, e.g. topic assignment, understanding writing, understanding content, practicing critizism, and managing oneself. The discussions focus on how to do scholarly work, based on the examples of the individual publications that each participant chose, and personal experience. They are accompanied by writing assignments in every participant’s personal blog. |
| Type: |
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| Language(s): |
English |
| Description (max. 300 characters): |
The goal of the AI Seminar is to learn the art of scholarship, specifically to read and write original scientific work. To this end, each participant picks an AI research paper according to his/her research interests that serves as an example throughout the course. |
| Contents and Learning Objectives: |
You have consciously considered the very basic tool of a researcher: literature study, writing and presenting.
- You are able to read, comprehend and assess original scientific publications
- You are able to communicate your findings in the academic ways of an oral talk and in writing
You will have made a deep dive into a sub field of your choice of artificial intelligence |
| Admission: |
Curiosity for AI and scholarly work, first experience in scientific writing (e.g., BA thesis), first technical experience in AI or a related field |
| Literature: |
Examples:
- Mnih et al, “Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning”, 2015
- J. Schmidhuber, “Driven by Compression Progress: A Simple Principle Explains Essential Aspects of Subjective Beauty, Novelty, Surprise, Interestingness, Attention, Curiosity, Creativity, Art, Science, Music, Jokes”, 2009
Supplementary:
- J. Zobel, “Writing for Computer Science”, 2004
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| Conditions: |
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| Contact: |
Ricardo Chavarriaga (char@zhaw.ch)
Thilo Stadelmann (stdm@zhaw.ch) |
| Contact Person E-Mail: |
char@zhaw.ch |
| Status: |
registration open
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| Specialization: |
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
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