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master s programme in artificial intelligence msc faculty of social sciences international master s programme unique focus this two-year master of science msc programme has a unique character focusing on connections between artificial intelligence and cognitive neuroscience understanding how the brain works and how it supports intelligent cognitive behaviour is essential for effective agent design in turn agent design can lead to hypotheses about how intelligent behaviour is realized by humans in the master s programme artificial intelligence ai you will learn how to advance the study of brain and cognition by adopting typical ai tools such as computer simulation brain-computer interfacing and robotic design unique facilities the master s programme is closely related to the research carried out in the internationally renowned donders institute for brain cognition and behaviour this institute has several unique facilities for experimental research e.g facilities for brain imaging using eeg fmri and meg as a master s student you will be able to use these facilities for developing new experimental research techniques as well as for developing new machine learning algorithms to analyse the brain data and integrate them with brain-computer interfacing systems during the master s programme you will also cooperate with the behavioural science institute and work in its virtual reality laboratory which can be used to study social interaction between humans and avatars flexibility in specialisation the educational programme is varied and offers several options for specialization depending on your interest you can specialize in one or both of the following domains braincomputer interfacing and cognitive artificial intelligence moreover you can specialize in fundamental or applied research the programme the programme takes two years and is structured as follows first year · trendsinartificialintelligence6ec domain brain-computer interfacing · signalprocessingforbrain-computerinterfacing6ec · brain-computerinterfacingpracticalcourse6ec · researchmethods6ecoradvancesinhuman-computer interaction6ec

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domain cognitive ai · bayesiananddecisionmodelsinartificialintelligence 6ec · advancesinhumancomputerinteraction6ec · researchmethods6ecorintroductionpattern recognition6ec · optionalcourses36ec second year · optionalcourses12ec · internshipandmaster sthesis48ec the internship can be done at radboud university or at some otheracademicinstitutionoratacompanye.g.philips career prospects msc artificial intelligence students have excellent job prospects.oftenstudentsareofferedajobbeforethey have actually finished their studies many of our graduates goontodoaphdeitherinthenetherlandsorabroad.other graduates work for companies interested in cognitive design and research some students even start their own companies admission requirements · adutchbachelor sdegreeinartificialintelligence,or an affiliated bsc degree at a level equivalent to a dutch university with a sufficiently strong ai-component in the latter case admission will be at the discretion of the examination board · fluencyinbothwrittenandspokenenglish.non-native speakersofenglishrequireatoeflscoreofatleast550 orielts6.5 admission to the programme takes place once a year in september registration for students from outside eea countriescloseson1marchandforstudentsfromwithin theeeaon1may more information please contact dr jason farquhar e j.farquhar@donders.ru.nl i www.ru.nl/ai www.internationalmasters.eu publication date september 2010

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