Programmes starting between September 2023 and July 2024The postgraduate masters fees for part-time students at the University of Leeds are fixed at the point of entry and will not rise in subsequent years of the course. This enables students to plan their finances at the outset. The postgraduate fees are reviewed annually. Fees for students who start their course after July 2024 may be higher. More information about fees is available from the University of Leeds website. Programmes starting between September 2023 and July 2024OCOM5102M (L02) AlgorithmsDescriptionAlgorithms and algorithmic problem solving are at the heart of computer science. This module introduces students to the design and analysis of efficient algorithms and data structures. Students learn how to quantify the efficiency of an algorithm and what algorithmic solutions are efficient. Techniques for designing efficient algorithms are taught, including efficient data structures, standard methods such as Divide-and-Conquer and Dynamic Programming as well as more advanced techniques for computationally intractable problems and large data sets. This is done using illustrative and fundamental problems relevant to AI.
OCOM5202M Ethics of Artificial IntelligenceDescriptionThe workplace (and home) is (are) going through a technological revolution. New automated algorithms can make medical assessments or deliver financial advice, for example, faster and more accurately than human professionals. Customers are given financial advice by chatbots and other AI systems. Medical data is collected by fitbits and AI can deliver medical judgements, meaning that they have no need to interact with another human at all. And more information about customers and potential customers is collected, collated and analysed every day, allowing for targeted marketing and accurate risk analysis. Ostensibly, these technologies are being introduced in order to make commerce, business and medicine more efficient, more accurate, and more objective. Nonetheless, with new technologies come new problems, and the rapidity with which these technologies are being applied often mean these problems go unnoticed until serious ethical and legal issues emerge. This module provides students with the analytical and theoretical tools to engage with these issues in a professional context. The module is taught online alongside modules in maths and computing in which these issues are live. There are eight online units. The online units will comprise of online learning materials such as videos and online documents, some related reading, and a facilitated online discussion forum per topic. There will be group work and group presentations which focus on discussion of concrete case studies in AI.
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