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Academic year:
2025
Description:
Provide the basics on what is artificial intelligence (AI), a discipline that is becoming transversal to any research field, so that students can consider the incorporation of AI in their research. Introduction to the different AI approaches, paradigms, trends and challenges. Getting acquainted with the current AI tools for machine learning and decision making, as well as with the related ethical, social and sustainability issues.
Academic credits:
1
Course coordinator:
Maria Beatriz Lopez Ibañez

Groups

Other competences

  • AI basic competences

Syllabus

1. What is AI. Acting humanly. Thinking humanly. Thinking rationally. Acting rationally.

2. Foundations of AI. Philosophy. Mathematics. Economics. Neuroscience. Psychology. Computer Engineering. Control theory and cybernetics. Linguistics.

3. A brief history to AI. Current trends and challenges. Deep learning. Cognitive architectures.

4. AI approaches.

5. Pillars of AI. Knowledge representation and reasoning. Learning. Problem solving.

Activities

Activity type Hours with a teacher Hours without a teacher Virtual hours with a teacher Total
Individual preparation of assignments 0 10,00 0 10,00
Theory class 7,00 7,00 0 14,00
Hands-on class 3,00 3,00 0 6,00
Total 10,00 20,00 0 30

Bibliography

Assessment and Grading

Assessment activities:

Description of the activity Assessment Activity % Remediable subject
Job assignment - Report about the case study on a topic selected by the student. Completeness of the report according to the instructions given. Quality of the report contents according to the criteria provided by the professor. 100 Yes

Grading

- Final grade: “Pass” or “not-Pass”.

- To obtain a “Pass” grade:
• You must attend 80% or more of the classes (attendance will be recorded).
• You must complete an assignment that demonstrates the knowledge acquired and that will be evaluated by the faculty.

Specific criteria for the "No show" grade:
A student who has not attended a minimum of 80% of classes or who has not completed the assessment task is considered "Not Present".

Single Assessment:
Special cases will we attended according to the Doctoral School norms.

Minimum requirements to pass:
Obtain a Pass grade.

Mentorship

Tutorships will be attended under appointment (to be requested via the Moodle tools or electronic mail).

Communication and interaction with students

During the course sessions, the students could ask questions according to the protocol stablied by the professor (raise your hand in presential mode, icone or other alternative in virtual mode).

The News forum of the course’s Moodle is encouraged as the main via for doubts and questions arisen out of the course session, so as all the students could access to the information.

Individual requests will be managed by e-mail.

Remarks

There is a total of three sessions, combining lecture room with lab (computer) room.
When required, virtual sessions will be enabled. But in-person class is encouraged to enhance networking among the students.
Lab sessions are easy to follow by persons with low skills in computer programming (tutorials, step by step).

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