AI summer games 2024
Project | Agenda | Prerequisites | Accommodation | Participating Universities
After a great start in 2023 at Howest University in Bruges, we will continue in summer 2024 at Hochschule der Medien (HdM) and will host the AI Summer Games.
If you are interested in taking part in this project, please contact Elisabeth Messerschmid (messerschmid@hdm-stuttgart.de) for details regarding registration.
About The Project
Students from participating universities will gather in Stuttgart for a week of intensive training and real life exercises in Deep Learning, data exploration and processing as well as work in international teams and some exciting social activities.
And even better: you will receive 3 ECTS for participating in the course.
Agenda
Our blended intensive programme will be split in 2 phases:
- online phase is on 17./18. June 2024 from 10:00h - 17:30h and
- the face-to-face phase will take place from Sunday, 30. June (arrival) up to Saturday, 6. July (departure).
Online agenda
| Date | Location |
Time |
Content |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17. June 2024 | online | 2:15 - 3:45 pm | Course Introduction / AI Design Process / Python for AI (Part 1) |
| online | 4:00 - 5:30 pm | Python for AI (Part 2+3) | |
| 18. June 2024 | online | morning | Data Exploration in Python (Part 1 + 2) |
| online | 2:15 - 3:45 pm | Data Preprocessing Part 1 (L&L: Missing Value and Outlier Handling) | |
| online | 4:00 - 5:30 pm | Data Preprocessing Part 2 (L&L: Feature Transformation and Scaling) |
Face-to-face agenda
| Date | Location | Morning | Afternoon | Evening |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Su 30. June 2024 | Stuttgart City | Arrival | Social activity | |
| Mo 01. July 2024 | HdM |
Course Kick Off, Introduction to AI Summer Games Challenge, Team Building Clustering, Part 1, L&L (Unsupervised Learning) |
Regression, L&L (Supervised Learning) |
|
| Tu 02. July 2024 | HdM |
Classification, L&L (Supervised Learning) |
AI Security | Social activity |
| We 03. July 2024 | HdM |
Deep Learning Basics (Lecture + pytorch lab) Speech: company guest speaker |
Social activity | Social activity |
| Th 04. July 2024 | HdM |
Deep Learning for NLP (Transformers, L&L) |
Deep Learning for NLP (RAG, L&L) | MediaNight@HdM |
| Fr 05. July 2024 | HdM |
Trends in AI: Application of deep learning models in E-commerce recommendation systems, Speech: the future of AI |
AI Summer Games Final | |
| Sa 06. July 2024 | HdM | Social Activity | Departure |
(There might be minor changes in the agenda.)
Prerequisites
This programme is open to students of Computer Science or Business Administration who have some knowledge in programming and data bases from our partner universities.
Make sure to bring a laptop.
Accommodation
Please consider: it´s EURO 2024! On 5. July there is a match of the quarter-finals in Stuttgart, so it will get full in the hotels. Therefore you should book your room asap!
Here are our recommendations:
A&O Hostel Stuttgart City, Rosensteinstr. 14/16
Alex 30, Alexanderstr. 30
DJH Jugendherberge (Youth Hostel), Haußmannstraße 27
IB Gästehaus, Richard-Wagner-Str. 2 (website is only in German)
International Students Hostel, Neckarstr.172
Participating Universities
Algoma - Algoma University / Canada
Avans - Avans Hogeschool, Den Bosch / Netherlands
HdM - Hochschule der Medien, Stuttgart / Germany (host)
Howest - Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen, Bruges / Belgium
HvA - Hogeschool van Amsterdam, Amsterdam / Netherlands
MMU - Manchester Metropolitan University / UK
Örebro University, Örebro / Sweden