SPL02
How Do you Make MOOCs Smarter? Use Artificial Intelligence!
Date Thursday, Dec 3 Time – RoomPotsdam III
Breathing life into the future of MOOCs, this pioneer in Artificial Intelligence has developed a new way to make e-learning’s most utilised (and scrutinised) medium more intelligent. See the results of the three-year project that used AI to build a smarter MOOC for learning music. Will it make MOOCs sceptics change their tune?
Moderator
Luc Steels
Director, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Belgium
Luc Steels studied linguistics at the University of Antwerp (Belgium) and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA). His main research field is Artificial Intelligence covering a wide range of intelligent abilities, including vision, robotic behavior, conceptual representations and language. In 1983 he became a professor of computer science at the University of Brussels (VUB). He has been co-founder and chairman (from 1990 until 1995) of the VUB Computer Science Department (Faculty of Sciences).
He founded the Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris in 1996 and became its first director. Currently he is ICREA research professor at the Institute for Evolutionary Biology (CSIC,UPF). Steels has participated in dozens of large-scale European projects and more than 30 PhD theses have been granted under his direction. He has produced over 200 articles and edited 15 books directly related to his research. During the past decade he has focused on theories for the origins and evolution of language using computer simulations and robotic experiments to discover and test them.