Artificial Intelligence has been used to such great effect in recent years that it has been instrumental in bring about a step change in the way the internet functions and has also been fundamental to the success of many companies. In 2003, Greenpeace published a report entitled “Future Technologies: Today’s choices – Nanotechnology, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics; A technical, political and institutional map of emerging technologies”. They identified five key technologies as “emerging” that offer “hope for the betterment of the human condition”. These five key technologies were: Biotechnology; Nanotechnology; Cognitive Science; Robotics; and Artificial Intelligence. The last three of these technologies are in the Artificial Intelligence area that is addressed by this programme. Students completing this Computer Science with Artificfial Intelligence course will have an understanding of the fundamentals underpinning computing and its applications with a specialisation in the area of Artificial Intelligence. You will be able to apply the related principles into the implementation of properly engineered software, and understand the drivers for future trends.

Career Prospects To name just two examples of many, Artificial Intelligence technologies used to develop search engines (e.g. Google, Bing) and recommendation software (e.g. Amazon, Facebook) have proved to be game changers in the IT industry spawning billion-dollar sub-industries such as search engine optimisation. Clearly, Artificial Intelligence is an area of fundamental importance to all IT employers.