Course Gaps at Federal Polytechnic Nassarawa

Overview of Artificial Intelligence. History of AI. Goals of AI. AI Technique. Types of AI. Branches and applications of AI. Advantages and Disadvantages. Introduction to Intelligent Agents. Agent Performance, Examples of Agents, Agent Faculties, Rationality, Agent Environment. Agent Architectures. Search. General Classes of AI Search Algorithm Problems. Problem Solving by Search. Types of AI Search Techniques and Strategies. Introduction to the types of problems and techniques in AI. Problem-Solving methods. Major structures used in AI programmes. Knowledge Representation. KR and Reasoning Challenges. KR Languages. Knowledge representation techniques such as predicate logic, non-monotonic logic, and probabilistic reasoning. Semantic Network - types of relationships, semantic network inheritance, types and components. Introduction to Frames. Natural Language Processing (NLP). Introduction to natural language understanding and various syntactic and semantic structures. Introduction to Expert Systems - characteristics, components, types, requirements, technology, development. Programming Languages for AI. Introduction to computer image recognition. Lab work: Group practical in (i) Turing test practical - Students can act out their own version of the Turing test (iii) Facial recognition practical to aid in teaching students how machine learning works with students simulating a facial recognition algorithm. Practical applications of NLP in groups – (i) Question Answering focuses on building systems that automatically answer the questions asked by humans in a natural language (ii) Spam detection application for detecting unwanted e-mails getting to a user's inbox (iii) Sentiment analysis/opinion mining should be used on the web to analyse the attitude, behaviour, and emotional state of the sender, implemented through a combination of NLP and statistics (iv) Practical exercise of machine translation used to translate text or speech from one natural language to another natural language such as the Google Translator (v) Developing a model to provide word processor software for the spelling correction (vi) Developing a model for speech recognition for converting spoken words into text (vii) Implementing a Chatbot to provide the staff/student's chat services. OR Group Practical exercise on agents and its environment using simulation of a colony of ants foraging for food; model simulating a message between agents; model simulating the flocking behaviour of birds; model to apply standard search algorithm to the classic search problem of missionaries and cannibals, and how to use communicating agents for searching networks. Some computer AI animation exercises for any branch of AI. Practical exercise on simple robots coupling and programming. Group project of building a lawn robot for trimming grasses, or any simple design and implementation of robotics. 400 Level

Introduction to biometrics and digital image processing. Matlab in biometric image/signal processing. Biometric algorithms and systems with emphasis on face, fingerprint, eyes (iris), speech (voice). Automated biometric identification multimodal biometrics. Biometric data: raw data, template data, and data methods. Biometric matching basics: biometric authentication, enrolment, correct user, and incorrect user. Match threshold and matching performance. Setting a threshold. Biometric authentication: matching data, ground truth, calculating errors rates and graphs. Biometric data: Storage of biometric data elements, transactions, errors and quality upgrades. Data security and integrity. Privacy issues and other aspects of biometrics. Applications of biometrics and future trends. Challenging issues: security strength and recognition rates. Alternatives of passwords and smart cards. Lab work: Practical exercise on biometric capture, image processing, matching threshold and performance. Learn the practical aspect of automated biometric identification of multimodal, authentication and calculation of error rates. Work on biometric algorithms, privacy and security of stored biometric data.

Types and sources of data. simple communications network. transmission definitions. one- way transmission. half-duplex transmission. transmission codes. transmission modes. parallel transmission. serial transmission. bit synchronisation. character synchronisation. character synchronisation. synchronous transmission. asynchronous transmission. the efficiency of transmission. Protocols: Introduction to network protocol. Seven Layer ISO-OSI standard protocols and network architecture. Transport protocols, session services protocols, and other protocols. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering 802 standards. Error control and Data Compression. Forward Error Control. error detection methods. parity checking. linear block codes. cyclic redundancy checking. feedback error control. data compression. Huffman coding and dynamic Huffman coding. Local Area Networks. medium access control techniques – Ethernet, token bus, and token ring. LAN standards. fibre distributed data interface. metropolitan area network. Peer-to-peer. Client-Server. Client-Server Requirements. GUI design standards. interface independence. platform independence. transaction processing. connectivity. reliability. backup. recovery mechanisms. Information Network Software: features and benefits of major Network Operating Systems. Network OS. TCP/IP and Network OS. Lab Work: Demonstration of simple communications networks. Illustration of applications at the various levels of the OSI model. Demonstration of different types of Local Area Networks (LANs). Illustration of Metropolitan Area Networks. Illustration of Error Detection and Error Correction techniques. Demonstration of Network Operating Systems.