Tweedejaarsproject BSc KI

Second Year Project Artificial Intelligence

Studiewijzer 2017/2018

Globale inhoud

In this course, students will work on an AI-related project in a small group of 3 to 5 students. In order to foster interaction with the "outside world", the projects are done in collaboration with companies whose commercial activities are connected to AI. Each company involved in the course will define a project related to a real product, application, or problem that the company needs to deal with. You and your team will work full time for one month on one of these projects, jointly supervised by a member of the host company (the client) and a researcher at the university (the academic mentor).

The list of participating companies and projects on offer varies every year. Before the project period starts, the list of available projects will be made available and  students will be asked to submit their preferences. On the basis of these preferences, the coordinator will allocate individual students to projects with a maximum of 5 students per project.

Studiemateriaal

Literatuur

• Each group should purchase a copy of Scrum voor Dummies (Dutch). Other material on project planning and management will be made available on Blackboard. The project supervisors may recommend some background reading if that seems useful for particular projects.

Software

• Software needs will vary per project, with many clients requiring custom packages.

Leerdoelen

The aim of this course is to connect students to the corporate world outside academia and to train them on how to apply their AI knowledge and skills to real problems in industry. By the end of the course, students should be capable of the following.

Project content

• Apply and combine different AI-related knowledge and skills to concrete problems defined by the needs of a corporate stakeholder.
• Analyse the goals of the project.
• Develop and implement an appropriate solution.
• Evaluate the performance of the final application.

Project planning and management

• Define intermediate goals and develop a work plan.
• Organise work within a team.
• Manage their time to meet internal and external deadlines.

Project report and presentation

• Document their implementation to allow others to use it, modify it or extend it.
• Summarise the goals of the project, the features of their proposed solution, and possible improvements for the future.
• Communicate their work to an audience in a coherent and professional manner.

Onderwijsvormen

• Presentatie/symposium
• Hoorcollege
• Zelfstandig werken aan bijv. project/scriptie
• Zelfstudie
• Begeleiding/feedbackmoment
• Veldwerk/excursie

• Reporting and feedback sessions: all groups will meet together with the coordinator a few times during the project period to report and get feedback on project planning, project management and work progress, and to present the final results of the project.
• Team work: the majority of the time will be dedicated to work on the project within your team.
• Supervision meetings: meetings with the company and academic supervisors should take place regularly.

Verdeling leeractiviteiten

Aanwezigheid

Aanwezigheidseisen opleiding (OER-B):

• Voor practica en werkgroepbijeenkomsten met opdrachten geldt een aanwezigheidsplicht. De invulling van deze aanwezigheidsplicht kan per vak verschillen en staat aangegeven in de studiewijzer. Wanneer studenten niet voldoen aan deze aanwezigheidsplicht kan het onderdeel niet met een voldoende worden afgerond. .
  

Aanvullende eisen voor dit vak:

Attendance to the plenary sessions with the coordinator is obligatory. Each group is responsible for attending on time any meetings scheduled with their client or their TA.

Toetsing

All members of a group must be present for all presentations unless explicit written permission is granted for an absence. N.B. All elements of the grading schema are required, despite bugs in DataNose that report the contrary!

Fraude en plagiaat

Dit vak hanteert de algemene 'Fraude- en plagiaatregeling' van de UvA. Hier wordt nauwkeurig op gecontroleerd. Bij verdenking van fraude of plagiaat wordt de examencommissie van de opleiding ingeschakeld. Zie de Fraude- en plagiaatregeling van de UvA: http://student.uva.nl

Weekplanning

Rooster

Het rooster van dit vak is in te zien op DataNose.

Aanvullende informatie

The plenary sessions with the coordinator will be conducted in English. The final report and all the intermediate and final presentations should be done in English.

The projects will cover a wide range of topics and areas and will require students to draw on different types of expertise. All of the knowledge and skills acquired in all the first and second year courses of the BSc AI may be important.

Contactinformatie

Coördinator

• dr. J.A. Burgoyne