This course explores the area of cognitive computing and its implications for today’s world of big data analytics and evidence-based decision-making. Topics covered as part of this seminar include cognitive computing design principles, natural language processing, knowledge representation, advanced analytics, as well as IBM’s Watson DeepQA and Google’s TensorFlow deep learning architectures. Students will have an opportunity to build cognitive applications as well as explore how knowledge-based artificial intelligence and deep learning are impacting the field of data science.