Webinar 13 "Artificial Intelligence-demystified

Session 1 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence  PPT and VIDEO
Session 2 Technologies of AI     PPT  and  VIDEO
Session 3 Applications of AI      PPT and VIDEO (temporary)
Session 4  Development & Implications of AI  PPT and VIDEO
Space Education and Research Foundation (SERF) announces 13th webinar. This webinar will be on “Artificial Intelligence-demystified” and consists of four sessions by Prof Ravee Choudhury. These will go live on 2nd, 3rd, 6th and 7th May 2019 during 06:00 to 07:00 UT. Please check the time in your region (e.g. in India this will be 11:30 to 12:30 hrs).

The titles of the sessions are as follows:
Session 1 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (on 2nd May 2019)
Session 2 Technologies of AI (on 3rd May 2019)
Session 3 Applications of AI (on 6th May 2019)
Session 4 Development and Implications of AI (on 7th May 2019)

About the speaker (Prof. Ravee Choudhury):
Prof Ravee Choudhury holds BE and M. Tech degrees in Industrial Engineering and Management Mechanical Engineering from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar and IIT Kanpur respectively. He has >40 years of experience of application design, development, and support, IT systems integration, delivery of   strategic IT outsourcing for large multination in Pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, manufacturing, government sectors, management projects, business development etc. He started his career as lecturer in Mechanical engineering at University College of Engineering, Sambalpur.  Later he joined as research associate at IIT, Kanpur for a year and moved to Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. At IIM Ahmedabad he worked for 12 years and rose to the position of IT Manager for IIMA Computer Center. He has industry work experience with large multinational IT organizations such Digital Equipment Corporation, COMPAQ computers corporation. Hewlett-Packard and DXC Technology in India, Hong Kong, Singapore at their Asia Pacific regional HQ. In these he played various regional roles.

Abstracts of the sessions of the webinar on “Artificial Intelligence-demystified”:
This webinar on “Artificial Intelligence-demystified” is divided in four sessions as below:
Session 1 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence: This session begins to define “What is Artificial Intelligence (AI)?”. It would outline the importance of AI today and briefly describe different type of AI systems. The session also highlights broadly the subject matter and topics to be covered in next three sessions.
Session 2 Technologies of AI: This session is aimed to deal in some detail - the underpinning technologies of AI; such as Neural Networks & Machine Learning. The Machine Learning, Big Data, Computer Vision, Speech Recognition etc. are the technologies that have made AI systems feasible. These would be described.
Session 3 Applications of AI: This session is designed to cover some of the interesting current applications of AI in Agriculture, Aviation, Education, Finance, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Marketing, Media, Customer Support, Human Resource Management etc.
Session 4 Development and Implications of AI: This session has two parts (a) Tools of AI development and (b) Societal and ethical, political implications of developing AI based systems. These would be discussed in some details here.