Free Online Certificate Course on AI from IIT Madras

Free Online Certificate Course on AI from IIT Madras

IIT Madras offering free online course on Artificial Intelligence and more for Graduates and Post Graduates…!

The Institute strongly believes that talent and good ideas can come from anywhere and has a remarkably diverse community, drawing students from across all Indian states and from various countries. Intensely curious and driven to explore, the student community of IIT Madras value rigorous analytical thinking, ingenuity, hands-on problem solving, and big new ideas.The departments and centers of the Institute are responsible for the academic activities which include Teaching, Research and Industrial Consultancy.

Things to Know

• The course is free to enroll and learn from.
• Course will start on 24 Jan 2022 and ends on 15 Apr 2022
• This course can be completed in 12 weeks
• Certification exam date on 23 Apr 2022
• Certification is optional and to get a certificate, applicants will have to pay Rs 1,000 to appear for the examination.
• This is an AICTE approved course.
• Professor Deepak Khemani from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras will be conducting the course.

INTENDED AUDIENCE:  BE/ ME/ MS/ MSc/ PhD students and Professionals

PREREQUISITES : Some exposure to formal languages, logic and programming

Course Layout:

Week 1: Introduction, Propositional Logic, Syntax and Semantics 
Week 2: Proof Systems, Natural Deduction, Tableau Method, Resolution Method 
Week 3: First Order Logic (FOL), Syntax and Semantics, Unification, Forward Chaining 
Week 4: The Rete Algorithm, Rete example, Programming Rule Based Systems 
Week 5: Representation in FOL, Categories and Properties, Reification, Event Calculus
Week 6: Deductive Retrieval, Backward Chaining, Logic Programming with Prolog 
Week 7: Resolution Refutation in FOL, FOL with Equality, Complexity of Theorem Proving 
Week 8: Description Logic (DL), Structure Matching, Classification 
Week 9: Extensions of DL, The ALC Language, Inheritance in Taxonomies 
Week 10: Default Reasoning, Circumscription, The Event Calculus Revisited 
Week 11: Default Logic, Autoepistemic Logic, Epistemic Logic, Multi Agent Scenarios

Optional Topics A: Conceptual Dependency (CD) Theory, Understanding Natural Language
Optional Topics B: Semantic Nets, Frames, Scripts, Goals and Plans

CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE

Average assignment score = 25% of average of best 8 assignments out of the total 12 assignments given in the course.
Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100

Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score

YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75. If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.

Only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies will not be dispatched.

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