IIT Madras to offer two free online courses on Artificial Intelligence

The courses are free of course, however, in case students want to have a certificate of the same, they can get the e-certificate at the cost of Rs 1,000.

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras in collaboration with the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) platform has launched two new free online courses on Artificial Intelligence. Students who are interested can send the applications for the same on or before January 25, 2021. The course will be led by Professor Deepak Khemani from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, these courses — AI: Constraint Satisfaction and Artificial Intelligence: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning will help students gain problem-solving capabilities using artificial intelligence.

The courses are free of course, however, in case students want to have a certificate of the same, they can get the e-certificate at the cost of Rs 1,000.

When asked, Professor Khemani stated to the media that there is massive traction of courses on data science and AI amid working professionals and college students amid the pandemic. And that’s why IITM, with this course, aims at “helping people acquire new skills and thus become job-ready.” 

The two courses by IITM — one eight-week-long and another 12-week long begin in January and will run till April 2021. The first course — AI: Constraint Satisfaction — will focus on teaching students problem-solving capability in various ways using AI. Whereas, the second course — AI: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, will expose the students to different formal languages, programming and logical reasoning.

These courses will focus on some of the critical topics like constraint networks, projection networks, dynamic variable and value order, as well as a natural deduction, Tableau method, resolution method, and description logic, to name a few. 

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