IIT Delhi invites applications for free online course on artificial intelligence

IIT Delhi is inviting applications for a free online course on Artificial Intelligence on NPTEL. The course is designed keeping in mind the growing usage of AI in every industry. Students having prior knowledge of Computer Science, data structures, and probability will be especially benefited from this free online course on Artificial Intelligence.

The course will be taught by Prof. Mausam, Associate Professor of Computer Science department at IIT Delhi and an affiliate faculty member at the University of Washington, Seattle. He completed his B.Tech. from IIT Delhi in 2001 and a Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 2007. According to ArnetMiner, a global citation aggregator, Prof. Mausam is considered the 25th most influential scholar in AI.

Duration, course structure and other important dates 

• The free online course on Artificial Intelligence has a duration of 12 weeks.
• It will commence on 18 January 2021 and will end on 9 April 2021.
• 25 January 2021 is the last date to enroll in the course.

Course structure:

• Week 1:   Introduction: Philosophy of AI, Definitions
• Week 2:   Modeling a Problem as a Search Problem and Uninformed Search
• Week 3:   Heuristic Search, Domain Relaxations
• Week 4:   Local Search, Genetic Algorithms
• Week 5:   Adversarial Search
• Week 6:   Constraint Satisfaction
• Week 7:   Propositional Logic and Satisfiability
• Week 8:   Uncertainty in AI, Bayesian Networks
• Week 9:   Bayesian Networks Learning and Inference, Decision Theory
• Week 10: Markov Decision Processes
• Week 11: Reinforcement Learning
• Week 12: Introduction to Deep Learning & Deep R

Eligibility for the course

Anyone can enroll in this free online course on Artificial Intelligence however, it is an undergraduate Computer Science level course. Prior knowledge of Data Structures, Probability is the prerequisite of this course.

Also, people willing to pursue Psychology, Research, Neuroscience, and are interested in the Robotics Industry, or wish to pursue Neuroscience in the field of AI as their career must get enrolled in this course.

How to obtain a certificate?

Certificates will be rewarded to the participants on the basis of their performance in the exam, and average assignment score. However, the course is free but to take the exam one has to pay INR 1000 as a fee for this exam.

25% weightage will be given to the assignments and 75% to the proctored certification exam score of 100. The marks of the best of 8 out of 12 assignments given in the course will be considered. To be eligible for the course one must score a minimum average of 10 marks in the assignment and 35 out of 75 in the exam.

The interested candidates can enroll by visiting the official website.

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