Current Trends in Artificial Intelligence

Time: 

The course takes place Friday from 13:30 till 15:30 at the IRIDIA Lab @ the ULB Solbosch campus in the second semester.

The start-up labs (programming assignment) will take place during the first and the second semester!!!

 

Lecturer: 
Johan Loeckx
Luc Steels
External lecturer: 
Hugues Bersini
Assistant: 
Johan Loeckx
Canvas: 
http://pointcarre.vub.ac.be/index.php?application=weblcms&go=course_viewer&cours...
Objectives: 
  • The student is able to participatie actively in a scientific debate.
  • The student is aware of current trends in Artificial Intelligence en has the competence to judge different approaches and technologies.
  • The student can enumerate strengths and weaknesses of different AI technologies and under what circumstances they can be applied.
  • The student will also learn about open research questions to stimulate their own explorations in the field.
 
Description: 

This course is given together with the IRIDIA Lab at the ULB. Different (international) guest lecturers with an expertise in AI will give a talk about their current work in AI. 

Examination: 
  • Attendance in the lectures is obliged (Friday afternoon). Each absence needs to be e-mailed beforehand.
  • 60% of the grades come from the Start up labs programming assignment.
  • The other 40% come from an oral exam about the lectures.
Schedule: 

The course starts at 13:30.

  1. 15/2  Hugues Bersini (ULB)
  2. 22/2  Hugues Bersini (ULB)
  3. 1/3 Raphaël Gyory (ULB)
    • ​topic: Anomaly Detecion for the Internet of Things
    • materials: jupyter notebook 
  4. 8/3 Johan Loeckx (VUB) 
  5. 15/3 Martin Decanter (Omina Technologies)
  6. 29/3 Benoit Decorte
  7. 26/4 Gianluca Bontempi (ULB)
  8. 3/5 Kyriakos Efthymiadis (VUB)
  9. 10/5 Chris Develder
  10. 17/5 Matvei Tshishin (ULB)