Technological progress enables exciting new applications that continue to pervade and transforming everyday life. Surprisingly many of these applications and devices had actually already been forseen long before their realization.

In the spirit of QAIST, this course explores an unconventional format: a mix of teacher-centered and student-centered and active learning. Specifically, each student must present one sub-topic within 40~50 minutes! In addition, all participants will write three (short) essays as exams. Homework assignments consist in reading specific short stories and watching specific movies.

News: All available topics have now been assigned!
Enrolment is thus closed (but auditors are very welcome).

Lecturer: Martin Ziegler

TA: Jeongho Park

Location: E3 #2111 / online

Schedule: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 17:30am to 19:00 KST

Language: English only (except for students discussing in KLMS)

Grading: S/U

Exams: Upload your three essays to KLMS, each one by the deadline (Sunday 23h59KST), observing Academic Honesty.

Attendance: up to 5 online/offline absences are for free, any additional one requires advance approval. (So don't waste the free ones…)

Flipped Learning: YouTube

Aug 30+Sep 01: discuss course conditions, assign sub-topics to students

Sep 06: offline preparation
plus reading assignment Out of Body Experiences, Experience Machine Thought Experiment
plus movie watching assignments:

• Victim of the Brain (1988)
• The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
• Inception (2010)
• Auggie (2010)
• Source Code (2011)

Sep 08: Discuss reading and movie assignments

Sep 13: Philosophy of Reality (20210003)

Sep 15: Simulation Hypothesis (20200877)

Sep 20+Sep 22: VR Technologies: history, survey, classification (20226471)

Sep 27+Sep 29: Complexity Theory of Ray Tracing (20180943,20200816)

Oct 04+Oct 06: First take-home exam:
Write a short summary (two to four pages) of part I on VR.
Write one/two additional pages about your vision of the future of VR, of opportunities and possible dangers, and how to prevent the latter.

Oct 04+Oct 06: Movie watching assignments:

• Blade Runner (1982)
• Bicentennial Man (1999)
• A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
• Moon (2009)
• Free Guy (2021)

Oct 11: History of AI (20200535)

Oct 13: Philosophy of AI (20190606)

Oct 18 Pedagogy and Intelligence (20210300)

Oct 20: Perceptron Theory (20200304)

Oct 25: Catch-up slot

Oct 27 (updated): VC Dimension (20200844)

Nov 01: Sauer–Shelah lemma (20200812)

Nov 03: PAC Learnability and Complexity (20170745)

Nov 08+10: Approximation capabilities of neural networks (20190886+20210733)

Nov 15+Nov 17: Second take-home exam: Write a short summary (two to four pages) of part II on AI.
Write one/two additional pages about your vision of the future of AI, of opportunities and possible dangers, and how to prevent the latter.

Nov 15: Reading assignment:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops

Movie watching assignments:

• Tron (1982)
• The Matrix (1999)
• eXistenZ (1999)
• Gamer (2009)
• Ready Player One (2018)

Nov 17: History of MMORPG (20180645)

Nov 22+24: Distributed/Shared Memory Systems (20226379)

Nov 29+Dec 01: Distributed Computer Simulations (20223027)

Dec 06+Dec 08: Third take-home exam:
Write a short summary (two to four pages) of part III on MMORPGs.
Write one/two additional pages about your vision of the future of MMORPGs, of opportunities and possible dangers, and how to prevent the latter.