IIT Palakkad invites applications for 12-weeks free Artificial Intelligence course for students

The course named Applied Accelerated Artificial Intelligence will cover the fundamentals of the compute capabilities and system software required to implement AI-based solutions in industrial use cases, like in the domains of healthcare and Smart City.

IIT Palakkad invites applications for 12-weeks free Artificial Intelligence course for students

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Palakkad is organising a 12-week online free course about Artificial Intelligence (AI) on its NPTEL (National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning) platform. The course named Applied Accelerated Artificial Intelligence will cover the fundamentals of the compute capabilities and system software required to implement AI-based solutions in industrial use cases, like in the domains of healthcare and Smart City.

The course will also discuss the end-to-end deployment of two industrial use cases with demonstrations, helping participants use state-of-the-art AI SDKs (Software Development Kits) effectively to solve complex problems.

IIT Palakkad will be conducted by professor Satyadhyan Chickerur, head of the Centre for High-Performance Computing at KLE Technological University, Hubli; professor Bharatkumar Sharma, a senior solutions architect at Nvidia; professor Tosin Adesuyi, from the Department of Computer and Software Engineering, Kumoh National Institute of Technology; professor Satyajit Das, Assistant Professor in the department of computer science and engineering, IIT Palakkad; and, professor Ashrut Ambastha, principal engineer at Nvidia.

To be eligible for the course, students require to have prior knowledge of computer organisation, high-performance computing, machine learning, and deep learning. The PhD scholars and postgraduate students from any stream of science or engineering can enroll in the course. It can also be attended by third and fourth-year undergraduate students from any stream of engineering and working professionals.

It will cover topics like introduction to AI System Hardware, introduction to AI Accelerators GPUs, introduction to Containers and IDE, and introduction to System Software Operating System, Virtualisation, Cloud, among others. The course carries three credit points. In case, a student wants a certificate, then have to appear for the exam and pay a fee of INR 1,000.  Students who successfully complete the exam will be given a certificate with the NPTEL and IIT Madras logos on it.
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