Making Research Tools Accessible for All AI Students

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Making Research Tools Accessible for All AI
Students
Sarah Sood, Christine Alvarado, and Zach Dodds
Goal
Create scaffolded, motivating assignments that
help students use research and development tools
early.
Result
Students build comfort and confidence, then
leverage it on larger, course-capstone projects.
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Emotional Reasoning through Search
Sarah Sood, Christine Alvarado, and Zach Dodds
Resource
Trained using Bayesian, Case-based Reasoning, and
information-retrieval approaches on 106,000
movie and product reviews, the Reasoning Through
Search system quantifies the emotion of input
text on a spectrum from extremely negative (-1)
and overwhelmingly positive (1).
Results
EmoCloud
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A Foundation in Pen-based Computing
Sarah Sood, Christine Alvarado, and Zach Dodds
Resource
Windows Presentation Foundation is Microsofts
API for accessing students own hand-drawn
strokes, including time-stamp information and pen
status. To help focus on implementing algorithms,
the first HW asks students to build a
windows-journal-like pen-based application with
WPF.
Results
journal result
one with autocorrection
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Getting Set with OpenCV
Sarah Sood, Christine Alvarado, and Zach Dodds
Resource
OpenCV is a powerful C-based library of visual
routines. Its role in Stanleys vision systems is
one of its claims to fame. As researchware,
OpenCV is not easy for students to simply pick
up we motivate their use of the software by
asking them to implement a player for the game of
Set.
Results
and grew into a robot vision system
Three sets found!