IIT Delhi Invites Applications for 12-week Free Online Course on Artificial Intelligence

IIT Delhi has offered a 12-week free online course on artificial intelligence for undergraduate students in computer science

IIT Delhi is currently accepting applications for a 12-week free online course called “An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence” for undergraduate students in computer science. The course basically aims at preparing students to take a variety of focused, and advanced courses in various subfields of artificial intelligence. Furthermore, a variety of models such as search, logic, Bayes nets, and MDPs, which can be used to model a new problem will also be discussed.

The course will be conducted by Prof Mausam is an associate professor of computer science department at IIT Delhi, and an affiliate faculty member at University of Washington, Seattle. He has received his PhD from University of Washington in 2007 and has completed his BTech from IIT Delhi in 2001. He was recently awarded the AAAI Senior Member status for his long-term participation in AAAI and distinction in the field of artificial intelligence. 

What the IIT Delhi Free Online Course on Artificial Intelligence Will Cover?

The course introduces the variety of concepts in the field of artificial intelligence, and also discusses the philosophy of AI, and how to model a new problem as an artificial intelligence problem. Some of the topics that will be covered are as follows:

• Introduction: Philosophy of artificial intelligence, and definitions.
• Modeling a problem as search problem, and uninformed search.
• Heuristic search, and domain relaxations.
• Local search, and genetic algorithms.
• Adversarial search.
• Constraint satisfaction.
• Propositional logic and satisfiability.
• Uncertainty in AI, and Bayesian Networks.
• Bayesian Networks Learning and Inference, and Decision theory.
• Markov decision processes.
• Reinforcement learning.
• Introduction to deep learning and Deep RL.

Important Details of the IIT Delhi Free Online Course on Artificial Intelligence

The course will be conducted from 24 January to 15 April 2022, and those who wish to obtain certificates with logos of IIT Delhi and NPTEL will have to pay Rs 1000 and take an examination on 24 April 2022. Those who receive 25% of average of best 8 assignments out of the total 12 assignments given in the course, and an exam score of 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100 will receive the e-certificate. Those who wish to take the course are advised to go through the official website for more information.