This course uses advanced technologies, such as IBM’s Blue Mix and Google’s TensorFlow, as building blocks, allowing student teams to exercise their ingenuity to develop applications that use AI and machine learning in entirely new business application areas. The products of cognitive computing are beginning to appear in the marketplace, while so-called “deep-learning” AI applications are finding their way into healthcare, energy management, security, marketing and financial services.
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.