– Introducing basic concepts and principles of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and of some of its major areas, such as knowledge-based systems, knowledge representation and reasoning, natural language processing, problem solving, and machine learning;

– Understanding how AI is to be considered an engineering discipline, aimed at developing software systems capable of performing advanced cognitive tasks;

– Understanding relationships and differences between the Traditional approach of Computer science and the Artificial Intelligence Approach;

– Knowing the major characteristics of the symbolic approach to AI and of the sub-symbolic approach to AI;

– Knowing some of the major application areas of AI;

Knowing hao to program a simple Machine Learning module.

DISCIPLINE CAPABILITIES

The student will have to:

1. Knowledge and understanding:

acquiring specific knowledge of the main concepts and basic principles of AI. Knowing and exploiting basic techniques for knowledge representation and machine learning, also by means of some specific laboratory class. Knowing what is a conceptual model of a specific problem solving task.

2. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding:

knowing how to analyze and represent domain specific knowledge, how to represent the meaning of a simple Natural Language text, how to approach simple machine learning projects, and how to apply the above mentioned knowledge in specific application contexts.

SOFT SKILLS

The student will have to:

1. Autonomy of judgment:

being able to independently evaluate the characteristics of a computer application and to be able to understand if the domain is adequate for the traditional approach or for the AI approach.

2. Communicative skills:

acquiring the ability to describe effectively and through appropriate models the scenario of an AI based system and its advantages over a traditional system

3. Learning skills:

being able to learn the basics of AI, in order to possibly later refine and deepen specific areas of the discipline.