Links

Here are some links to resources related to AI, research opportunities, career opportunities, and fun or interesting news items:

• Research:

  • CS Summer Research Program

• Student groups:

  • AI@UIUC

• Undergraduate minors that build on material in this course:

  • Health Technology Education Program

• Government resources:

  • US Government AI Aspirations

• News items:

  • AI resume-readers can be fooled, even by objectively scabrous resumes [1], [2].

Books

Some of the books that I’ve read about AI, and which are outstanding, and which I might occasionally mention in lecture.

• Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O’Neil, 2017, gives the best account of fairness issues.

• Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari, 2024, gives the best account of reward hacking.

• Sapiens, by the same author, is a useful history of work.

• The Algorithmic Foundations of Differential Privacy, by Cynthia Dwork and Aaron Roth, 2014. More advanced than the others on this list, because I have not found any easy books on this subject that are worth reading, but there are lots of good tutorials on this subject.

Other courses related to AI

Courses that you can take to extend your knowledge of Artificial Intelligence include the following. These are presented here in terms of the seven aspects of intelligence, but of course, the organization is a little bit arbitrary.

Topic	400-level	500-level
Deciding	CS 442 Trustworthy Machine Learning	ECE 515 Control System Theory & Design
	ECE 486 Control Systems	ECE 553 Optimum Control Systems
		ECE 557 Geometric Control Theory
		ECE 561 Statistical Inference
		ECE 566 Computational Inference
		ECE 586 Topics in Decision and Control
Learning	CS 441 Applied Machine Learning	CS 540 Deep Learning Theory
	CS 446/ECE 449 Machine Learning	CS 547 Deep Learning
		ECE 543 Statistical Learning Theory
Planning	CS 473 Algorithms	CS 573 Algorithms
	ECE 490 Introduction to Optimization	CS 574 Randomized Algorithms
		CS 576 Topics in Automated Deduction
Understanding	CS 474 Logic in Computer Science	CS 548 Models of Cognitive Processes
		ECE 563 Information Theory
Communicating	CS 447 Natural Language Processing	CS 546 Topics in NLP
	ECE 417 Multimedia Signal Processing	CS 565 Human-Computer Interaction
	ECE 459 Communications Systems	CS 567 Social Signals and Social Media
	ECE 461 Digital Communications	CS 568 User-Centered Machine Learning
		ECE 537 Speech Processing
		ECE 594 Models of Language
Perceiving	CS 444 DL for Computer Vision	CS 543/ECE 549 Computer Vision
	CS 445 Computational Photography	CS 544 Optimization in Computer Vision
	CS 448 Audio Computing Laboratory	CS 545 ML for Signal Processing
	ECE 418 Image & Video Processing	ECE 558 Digital Imaging
Acting	CS 443 Reinforcement Learning	CS 542 Statistical RL
	ECE 426 Principles of Mobile Robotics
	ECE 470 Introduction to Robotics
	ECE 489 Robot Dynamics and Control