IIT Madras Invites Applications from Students for 12-Week Free Online Course on Artificial Intelligence

IIT Madras is offering a free online course on artificial intelligence that students with basic knowledge on programming can take

IIT Madras has invited applications from students for a free online course on artificial intelligence called “Artificial Intelligence: Knowledge Representation And Reasoning”. The course, which can be completed in 12 weeks, starts with simple language of propositions, and then moves on to first order logic, representations for reasoning about action, change, situations, and about other agents in incomplete information situations. The course requires students to have basic knowledge on formal languages, logic and programming.

The course will be conducted by Deepak Khemani who is a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. The professor completed his BTech in Mechanical Engineering, and MTech and PhD in Computer Science from IIT Bombay. Khemani has been associated with IIT Madras since 1989. While the course is free to take, to obtain certificates participants will have to pay Rs 1000 and take an examination that will be conducted on 23 April 2022.

Who Can Take the IIT Madras Free Online Course on Artificial Intelligence?

While the course can be taken up by anyone who is interested, it would be most beneficial for students pursuing the following degrees:

• BE
• ME
• MSc
• MS
• PhD

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

The following topics will be covered as part of the course over a period of 12 weeks:

• Introduction, Propositional Logic, Syntax and Semantics.
• Proof Systems, Natural Deduction, Tableau Method, Resolution Method.
• First Order Logic (FOL), Syntax and Semantics, Unification, Forward Chaining.
• The Rete Algorithm, Rete example, Programming Rule Based Systems.
• Representation in FOL, Categories and Properties, Reification, Event Calculus.
• Deductive Retrieval, Backward Chaining, Logic Programming with Prolog.
• Resolution Refutation in FOL, FOL with Equality, Complexity of Theorem Proving.
• Description Logic (DL), Structure Matching, Classification.
• Extensions of DL, The ALC Language, Inheritance in Taxonomies.
• Default Reasoning, Circumscription, The Event Calculus Revisited.
• Default Logic, Autoepistemic Logic, Epistemic Logic, Multi Agent Scenarios.

Furthermore, students can also take two optional topics namely Conceptual Dependency (CD) Theory, Understanding Natural Language or Semantic Nets, Frames, Scripts, Goals and Plans.

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

The course will be conducted from 24 January to 15 April 2022, and interested participants will have to enrol before 31 January 2022. The course also carries three credit points, which may be beneficial for students. Those who wish to enrol are advised to go through the official website for further information.