By the end of the course, students will have a clear understanding of machine learning and artificial intelligence systems.

This fall, students at the Illinois Institute of Technology will be among the first in the country to have the option of pursuing an undergraduate degree in AI. We want to train a workforce that can tackle the challenges and opportunities of the future, which includes AI and machine learning," said Aron Culotta, associate professor of computer science and director of Illinois Tech's Bachelor of Science in Artificial Intelligence program. Historically, AI has been taught at the graduate level because it was more of a research area rather than a core component of computer science. But as the field has matured, Illinois Tech decided it was time to offer an undergraduate degree course. "We thought it was time to move some of these courses and concepts down to the undergraduate level so that when they graduate they will have both the traditional computational and design aspects as well as a good command of a number of these AI approaches," said Culotta.