Artificial Intelligence

Dear students,

The exam inspection is next Tuesday (Feb 24) between 13:00 and 15:00 in room HS002 in building E1.3.

To reduce waiting time, we ask you to come in time windows based on the last digit of your matriculation number:

matriculation number ends with 0-2, please come at 13:00,
matriculation number ends with 3-5, at 13:40, and
matriculation number ends with 6-9, at 14:20.

Best regards,
Daniel Höller

Dear students,

If you are taking tomorrow's AI exam, please be in front of your room at 13:45 so that we can start on time (at 14:00). The exam will take 2 hours.

Please bring your student ID. As newer student IDs do not include a photo, we also ask everyone to bring a valid personal ID or passport.

The exam is open book, meaning you can bring any materials you want, as long as they are written on or printed on paper. We recommend to bring a non-programmable calculator.  Other electronic devices are not allowed.

Best regards,
Daniel Höller

Dear students,

You can now find your room and the seating plan for the AI exam on your personal page in CMS.

Due to a higher number of students taking the exam than initially expected, we have had to arrange additional rooms beyond the one announced in the first lecture, so please make sure to check your assigned room and familiarize yourself with the seating plan in advance.

Best regards,
Daniel Höller

Dear students,

we have uploaded the points of the final project to CMS. Your personal status page now shows whether you have achieved the exam admission.

The exam is open book, meaning you can bring any materials you want, as long as they are written on or printed on paper. You may also use a non-programmable calculator. Other electronic devices are not allowed.

If you are admitted and would like to take the exam, please make sure to register for it in the appropriate system according to your program of study. If you need to register via HISPOS/LSF, you can register (or withdraw your registration) up to one week before the exam. If your program of study uses FlexNow 2, your CMS status page should already correctly display your registration status. In the special case that you have no access to either HISPOS/LSF or FlexNow2, please send an email to hoeller@cs.uni-saarland.de (if you have not done yet).

Please note that we may only allow you to take the exam if you are registered under the exam regulations of your degree program.

Best regards,
Daniel Höller

Hi all,

unfortunately, due to illness, we had to cancel the LLM Guest Lecture thus Thursday.

Therefore, there will be NO lecture on Thursday January 29. 

The remaining lectures are Tuesday January 27; Tuesday February 3 (exam preparation); and optionally Thursday February 5 for additional exam preparation if asked for. 

best regards,

Jörg Hoffmann

Dear students,

Tutorials

• the new exercise sheet is now available in CMS. It will be discussed in the tutorials between January 12 and 16
• there are no tutorials in the week between January 5 and 8 (the office hour on January 8 will take place)
• the timetable in CMS has been updated with the January tutorials

Teaching Evaluation
For those of you who have not yet participated in the teaching evaluation: Please do so, you can find the link(s) in CMS. The evaluation will end on January 12.

Have a nice Christmas break
Daniel Höller

Dear students,

the repositories for the programming projects have been created and you should have received an e-mail by GitLab telling you that you have been added as a maintainer of the project. Those students with a missing or incorrect username have received another warning to update their username until November 2nd, where we will run this procedure one final time.

A setup manual has been uploaded to the Materials section that deals with the basic development environment setup for the programming projects. Please take a look at the manual, follow the instructions and make sure everything works correctly. In case of problems, please make a post in the forum, or better, visit the office hour to ask for technical help. The first office hour is today at 14:15.

The first project will start on November 4th and has quite a generous deadline. Also at November 4th, there will be a project presentation after the lecture (16:00, same lecture hall), where we will briefly give an overview over the programming projects and give you advice on how to work on them.

Regards,
Thorsten Klößner

Dear students,

Below you find information regarding the tutorials and exercise sheets.

Your Tutorial

• You can now find your tutorial on your "Personal Status" page in CMS.
• If you want to change the tutorial, please find a student to swap via the forum.

Exercise Sheets

• The exercise sheets are provided in CMS in the "Materials" section.
• As explained in the very first lecture, handing in the solutions is voluntary (i.e., you do not have to do it for exam admission, etc.).
• If you want to hand in your solution, you can do so via the CMS.

Tutorial Classes

• The tutorials start next week (Nov. 3 to Nov. 7). See the "Timetable" in CMS for more information.
• For the up-coming week, there are two sheets (see CMS).
• You will not have time to do the sheets during the tutorials. Please prepare your solutions at home, so that we have good discussions in the tutorials.
• We will not hand out solutions to the sheets.

Online Tutorials

• The tutorials on Monday 10:00 are online tutorials (there are two of them in parallel, Tutorial 1 and Tutorial 8).
• For these tutorials, we will use Zoom.
• You find the Zoom links in the "Organization" section in CMS.

Best regards
Daniel Höller

Dear students,

in order to give you access to your programming repository for the upcoming projects, we need your SIC GitLab username. Many people have not yet specified their username in the CMS. If you have not done so yet, please go to the CMS status page and specify your GitLab username as soon as possible. Note that we only need the handle of your username, not an https link and please omit the leading @ from the handle. Access to the repositories will be given out in the near future and you will then receive further instructions regarding project setup.

Regards,
Thorsten Klößner

Hi all,

for those of you interested in the use of LLMs in planning, we are happy to announce that there will be a guest lecture on this topic on January 22. 

The lecture will be given by Katharina Stein, who is doing her PhD work on this topic (among others).

best regards,

Jörg Hoffmann

ps. The content of this guest lecture will not be exam relevant, it's just for interested students.