The Bachelor's programme in at ; something for you?
To come and study Artificial Intelligence you must be interested in the interaction between humans and computers. In order to build smart computers and robots, knowledge about the human brain is useful. For example, if you know how people recognise faces, you can use this knowledge to develop a passport photo scanner. This also works in reverse; by imitating brain processes using computer models, you learn more about how the mind works.
The requirements for passport photos are very strict. For example, your ears must be visible, you have to take off your spectacles and you must look straight at the camera. This is necessary because what you see at a single glance ? matching a person to their passport photo ? is a more complicated puzzle for a computer to solve. People are champions in rapidly recognising and detecting patterns ? regardless of whether it is faces, letters or sounds. How do they do that? How can we program machines to do this as easily? These are the kind of issues the Bachelor's programme in Artificial Intelligence tackles.
The Artificial Intelligence Programme
At Radboud University in Nijmegen, you will follow core subjects like mathematics and computer science, as well as topics from psychology, neurology, logic, linguistics and philosophy. With this knowledge, you develop computer models of the human cognition as well as intelligent computer programs that are able to execute tasks autonomously.
In the first year, you become acquainted with the main subjects giving you an idea about the programme and the field of study. You develop a study attitude wherein taking initiative, logical thinking and creativity occupy the centre stage. Many fields come together in the Bachelor's programme in Artificial Intelligence. If you doubt your choice and wish to change to a related programme, the Student Advisor can help you with making the right choice.
Want to know more?
Would you like to learn more about this programme and Radboud University? Join us for our Bachelor's Open Day on 30 March 2019! To learn more and register for this exciting event, visit www.ru.nl/bachelors/openday.
