Artificial Intelligence

Dear students,

the CMS registration for the second exam is open, you can register yourself on your personal status page. The CMS registration is open until August 15 23:59.

Note that you have to register for the exam in CMS, otherwise you cannot participate!

In addition to the CMS registration, you might have to register for the exam at your respective examination office (Prüfungssekretariat). For most of you, this should be the HISPOS registration. If you are unsure about this point, please contact your examination office.

The exam will take place on August 23, starting at 2pm, on campus, distributed across several lecture halls. We will inform you in advance regarding the details about how exactly the exam will be organized.

All the best,
Your AI-Team

Dear students,

for all those of you registered to attend the exam inspection tomorrow please note the following:

If your answer is "yes" to one or more of the following questions, then you are not allowed to attend the exam inspection.

Did you have definite contact with a Covid-19 patient, who was tested positive, in the last 14 days?
Do you have any of the following symptoms?
▪ Cough / Husten
▪ Sore throat / Halsschmerzen
▪ Nasal congestion / runny nose / Schnupfen
▪ Diarrhoea /Durchfall
▪ Fever /Fieber
▪ Aches and pains / Gliederschmerzen
▪ Loss of smell (e.g. no longer able to smell burnt food) / Geruchsverlust
▪ Loss of taste (e.g. unable to distinguish when food is burnt) / Geschmacksverlust”

All the best,
Your AI-Team

Dear students,

Some further information on the registration for the exam inspection:
As announced before, you will not be able to inspect your exam on Friday unless you have registered for an inspection slot in the CMS. We will open the registration today at 6pm. Note that there is a limited number of seats available in each slot and these seats will be assigned on a first come first served basis, so try to register as soon as possible if you have any restrictions on Friday. The registration will close on Thursday 5.8.2021 at 23:59.

As in the exam, we will assign a fixed seat to everyone attending the exam inspection. We will publish the seating plans Friday morning. Please check which seat you have been assigned before showing up to the inspection. You will be able to see your assigned seat on your personal status page in the CMS under "Exam Seats" once they have been published.

When entering the lecture hall at the beginning of your inspection slot, please have your student ID and your proof of a negative PoC antigen test not older than 24 hours or a certificate of vaccination or recovery ready. We will check both before you are allowed to enter the room.
 
All the best,
Your AI-Team

Dear students,

we just published the results of the first exam. This is the grading scheme:

1.0     >= 90 points

1.3     85 ≤ points < 90

1.7     80 ≤ points < 85

2.0     75 ≤ points < 80

2.3     70 ≤ points < 75

2.7     65 ≤ points < 70

3.0     60 ≤ points < 65

3.3     55 ≤ points < 60

3.7     50 ≤ points < 55

4.0     45 ≤ points < 50

5.0     < 45 points

Best regards,
Daniel Höller

Dear students,

Due to COVID-19, the inspection on Friday afternoon needs to be organized somewhat differently than before COVID-19. In particular, you will need to register for an inspection slot and are only allowed to show up and inspect your exam during this slot. The registration for the inspection slots will open after we have finished correction, probably in the middle of this week. We will post a news indicating the opening of the registration. It will be on a first come first served basis, so try to register as soon as possible if you have any restrictions on Friday.

We will let you know about further details regarding the inspection in due time.

Some information for all of you planning to come to/register for the exam inspection:

If you are planning to attend the exam inspection of Artificial Intelligence, please note that it is necessary for you to bring your own medical mouth-nose-protection mask (surgical mask or FFP2/KN95/N95 mask) with you. Further, to attend the exam inspection you will need to show proof of a negative PoC antigen test not older than 24 hours or a certificate of vaccination or recovery upon entering the room. You will NOT be permitted to the exam inspection if you cannot provide such proof.

All the best,

Your AI-Team

Dear Students,

we want to inform you about the following safety rules for the upcoming exam tomorrow. If you are registered to the AI exam, please read the following information carefully.

(1) Please note that it is absolutely necessary for you to bring your own medical mouth-nose protection mask (surgical mask or FFP2/KN95/N95 mask).

We strongly recommend that you wear the mask during the entire exam to protect yourself and others. You must wear the protection mask when entering and leaving the room or asking a question.

(2) If your answer is "yes" to one or more of the following questions, then you are not allowed to attend the exam. If you provide a doctor’s certificate to the examination office later on, the examination attempt will be canceled and will not count.

Did you have definite contact with a Covid-19 patient, who was tested positive, in the last 14 days?

Do you have any of the following symptoms?
▪ Cough / Husten
▪ Sore throat / Halsschmerzen
▪ Nasal congestion / runny nose / Schnupfen
▪ Diarrhoea /Durchfall
▪ Fever /Fieber
▪ Aches and pains / Gliederschmerzen
▪ Loss of smell (e.g. no longer able to smell burnt food) / Geruchsverlust
▪ Loss of taste (e.g. unable to distinguish when food is burnt) / Geschmacksverlust

If you have questions or in case of doubt, please send an email to Annika Engel.

All the best,
Your AI-Team

Dear students,

if you are registered for the exam "Artificial Intelligence", please note that it is necessary for you to bring your medical mouth-nose protection mask (surgical mask or FFP2/KN95/N95 mask) with you. A negative PoC antigen test not older than 24 hours or vaccination or recovery is recommended.

All the best,

Your AI-Team

Dear students,

the registration deadline for the exam in CMS has passed.

From all students who cannot register for AI in the HISPOS/LSF system, we need an email (to Annika Engel) to confirm your registration. In the email, please indicate your course of studies.

This is mostly relevant for students outside the CS department (though some CS-courses cannot register for AI in HISPOS, either). Note that we also need an email from VIPA students, since we do not have access to the VIPA registrations.

Deadline for the email is Sunday (July 25, 23:59).

On a side note, please keep in mind that the HISPOS registration closes tomorrow.

All the best,
Annika

Dear students,

To help you prepare for the exam, we provide all the previous quizzes of the theoretical sheets for you again as practice. This way you do not see your solution to the questions immediately. You can find these quizzes in Moodle at the bottom of the course page: https://lms.sulb.uni-saarland.de/moodle/course/view.php?id=4836
The questions are identical to the quizzes of the theoretical sheets and are only voluntary. You cannot improve or worsen your scores for the theoretical sheets by taking these quizzes. After submitting a quiz you are able to see the correction of your submission immediately. You can attend a quiz as often as you like.

Furthermore, we recommend using the chatbot (https://aiden.cs.uni-saarland.de/ Name: aiden, Password: ai-ch4tbot) for the exam preparation of the topics covered by Prof. Koehler. We created a new version of the chatbot for you and improved the search for slides (and keywords like “agent function”) to support you, if you have problems with a term or you simply want to listen to a specific topic again. Moreover, the chatbot is now also available in German.

We wish you good look at the exam.

All the best,

Your AI-Team

Dear students,

Just like for the last practical exercise sheets, there will be two office hours for the third one next week. The first one is on Tuesday (June 1) at 4 pm, the second one on Friday (June 4) at 4pm. The links will be posted in the calendar of the CMS.

At the beginning of both Office Hours we will discuss the same example exercise and then you can ask questions. Please have a look at the cheat sheet for MiniZinc, which is attached to the third practical exercise sheet.

All the best,
Your AI-Team

Dear students,

We are currently organizing rooms and supervision for the first exam. We have a very large course this year and need many rooms to distribute the students due to the pandemic and the university's hygiene concept. But due to travel restrictions, we have no information about how many students will be able to attend the exam. To get an impression, we have created a poll in the forum.

We know that you cannot finally answer whether you will be able to come to Saarbrücken, just answer the question to the best of your current knowledge and belief.

Please go to the forum and answer the poll. You must answer no later than Sunday (May 23).

Best regards,
Daniel Höller

Link to the poll:
https://fai-forum.cs.uni-saarland.de/t/organization-first-exam/2968

Dear students,

Just like for the last practical exercise sheet, there will be two office hours for the current one this week. The first one is on Tuesday (May 18) at 4 pm, the second one on Thursday (May 20), right after the lecture. The links will be posted in the calendar of the CMS.

Regarding the current sheet, there have been reports about segmentation faults while executing z3 in the virtual machine on some operation systems. We updated the vm configuration file in the CMS. So when you have such problems, please use the novel one.

Best regards,
Daniel Höller

Dear students,

Please carefully read the following information from Evelyn Kraska.

All the best,
Your AI-Team

Dear Lecturers of the summer semester 2021,

All students are asked to register for the exams for the summer semester 2021. Exam registration or a withdrawal is possible until one week before the main exam or the re-exam. A subsequent exam registration by the study coordination is only possible in justified exceptions. Please see attachment.

Registration for exams is possible from approx. end of May.

Seminars:
For (pro)seminars, registration or cancellation is possible up to three weeks after the topic assignment or kick-off meeting.


Please remind your students of the exam registration.

In case of problems wih the exam registration the stuof the faculty MI should contact: studium@cs.uni-saarland.de

Other students have to contact their examination office.

These students are not able to register in HISPOS:

Wirtschaftsinformatiker (Business Informatics)
VSIMint
Master IT und Recht
Bachelor-Plus MINT
Erasmusstudents
guest students

Currently the following students of the Computer Science department cannot register in HISPOS:

Bachelor of Computer Science, StO 2020
Bachelor Cyber Security, StO 2020
Bachelor Media Informatics, StO 2020
Master Media Informatics, StO 2020
Bachelor Mathematics and Computer Science, StO 2020
Teacher of computer science, StO 2020

Please let us know the participants of the (pro)seminars of the above mentioned study programs after the end of the course. We will register them in HISPOS as soon as it is possible.

We hope that the courses will be implemented in HISPOS by the start of the exam period and that exam registration will be possible then.

Thank you.

Best regards,
Evelyn Kraska

Dear students,

As announced in the lecture, there will be two office hours for the current practical exercise sheet this week. The first one is on Tuesday (May 4), the second one on Friday (May 7), both at 4 pm in MS Teams. You can find it directly in the Teams calendar, but there will also be a link in the calendar of the CMS.

Our tutors have prepared a great introduction to GDL. So if you think you might have problems with the sheet, please come and participate.

Best regards,
Daniel Höller

Dear students,

We have now assigned the tutorials. If you log in to the CMS you can find your tutorial on the "personal status" page.

Forming Groups
You can now start/proceed forming groups. Please do so by using the forum. All members of a group need to be in the same tutorial. You do not need to mail the group members to anybody (the tutors or me). Please write them down on the solutions you hand in (as specified on the exercise sheets). You can start working in your new group right away.

Changing Tutorials
You can change your tutorial if and only if you find somebody who wants to swap the group with you. So if you want e.g. to be in Tutorial 3 and are in Tutorial 2, please go to the forum and find somebody who is in Tutorial 3 and wants to be in Tutorial 2. Then write a single e-mail per swap to me (Daniel Höller). Please use the following template and put the student you want to swap with in CC:

mail subject:
Changing Tutorials

mail content:
Full Name 1    from    Tutorial A    to    Tutorial B
Full Name 2    from    Tutorial B    to    Tutorial A

Best regards,
Daniel Höller

Dear students,

As mentioned in the lecture on Thursday, the first exercise sheet has now been published. This exercise sheet is completely integrated in Moodle. You can work on it until midnight on 25th of April. More information can be found on the first sheet (CMS in the "Materials" section). Any quizzes in Moodle must always be submitted by every student individually. The groups do not matter here although you are allowed to discuss the questions with others.

Since all members of the group must however be assigned to the same tutorial, you should wait forming groups until you are assigned to a tutorial. This will be done on Monday. More information about the submission groups will follow once you have been assigned to your tutorials.

All the best

Your AI-Team

Dear students,

as many students would like to attend the AI lecture this year, we kindly ask those who have registered but have already decided not to attend the lecture to cancel their registration. This will make it much easier for us to plan the tutorials.

We also ask you to remember that you can only enter your tutorial time preferences on your personal page in the CMS until midnight the 18th of April. If you have not saved your preferences, you will be randomly assigned to a tutorial. Please also check if your current preferences are still correct.

All the best,

Your AI-Team

Dear students,

a few more brief details. The first lecture on Monday 12th of April will take place. We will record this and all subsequent lectures and make them available to you. This way, you will be able to watch them again if there is a clash of dates.

Note that to participate in this course you must register by midnight on 16th of April.

You can also enter your tutorial preferences in the CMS until midnight on 18th of April. If you do not enter any preferences, you will randomly be assigned to a tutorial.

All the best,

Your AI-Team