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Deep Learning Demystified - Having Fun with Neural Networks in Snap!

UD6.215 | Day 2 | 15:15 - 15:45 | Speakers: Jens Mönig

Deep Learning Demystified - Having Fun with Neural Networks in Snap!
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Abstract

While "AI" is all the rage in current educational debates, the associated skills are mostly about prompting chat bots and generally becoming a productive user of commercial offerings. This talk will introduce new approaches to educate learners about the algorithms that make up modern AI systems, specifically neural networks, how to build them from scratch using free and open source materials, how to use them to diagnose data sets and enhance your personal projects, and how to form an informed critical and skeptical competence towards them.

Speakers

Jens Mönig

Jens Mönig is a researcher at SAP. He is the architect and lead programmer of UC Berkeley’s SNAP! programming language for which he has been awarded the U.S. National Technology Leadership Symposium (NTLS) Educational Leadership Award 2020 together with Brian Harvey. Previously Jens has conducted research under Alan Kay, helped develop Scratch for the MIT Media Lab and written enterprise software. He is a fully qualified lawyer in Germany and has been an attorney, corporate counsel and lecturer for many years before rediscovering his love for programming. For leisure Jens loves riding his bicycle and fooling around with musical instruments.

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