| Week | Dates | Day | Topics | Homework |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mar. 7 - 11 | 1 | Introduction to this course.
Introduction to the basic nature of Watson. A representative application | |
| 2 | Review and class discussion of the projects from the IBM Watson University Competition | Review of various IBM Watson University Competition projects | ||
| 3 | Tools available to us | Tool reviews | ||
| 4 | Architecture of Watson
IBM Lecture 1: Introduction to IBM Watson | Review of IBM Lecture 1: Introduction to IBM Watson | ||
| 2 | Mar. 14 - 18 | 5 | Discussion of app ideas | Idea for app (somewhat researched) |
| 6 | Criteria for a good Watson app. | |||
| 7 | IBM Lecture 2: Deep Question Answering Architecture
Innovation | Review of IBM Lecture 2: Deep Question Answering Architecture | ||
| 8 | Discussion of revised app ideas | Revised idea for app (researched) | ||
| 3 | Mar. 21 - 25 | 9 | The innovation canvas | |
| 10 | Innovation | |||
| 11 | IBM Lecture 3: Semantic Integration and
Machine Learning
Innovation | Review of IBM Lecture 3: Semantic Integration and Machine Learning | ||
| 12 | No class today | Strengths and Limitations of IBM Watson Service, as assigned | ||
| 4 | Mar. 28 - Apr. 1 | 13 | Each team meets with me in my office | Draft of project proposal |
| 14 | No class today | |||
| 15 | IBM Lecture 4: Natural Language Processing | Review of IBM Lecture 4: Natural Language Processing | ||
| 16 | Project Proposal Presentations | Project proposal (innovation canvas) | ||
| 5 | Apr. 11 - Apr. 15 | 17 | Designing and Developing
a Watson application
Use cases, developing an initial set of questions and answers | |
| 18 | Planning a Watson application.
Curating and ingesting source documents, Architecture of application | |||
| 19 | IBM Lecture 5: UIMA | Review of IBM Lecture 5: UIMA at IBM Watson | ||
| 20 | Status update in my office | Initial architecture of app
Use cases Set of documents to be curated | ||
| 6 | Apr. 18 - Apr. 22 | 21 | Cognitive Computing | |
| 22 | Cognitive Computing | |||
| 23 | IBM Lecture 6: Structured Knowledge in IBM Watson | Review of IBM Lecture 6: Structured Knowledge in IBM Watson | ||
| 24 | Status update in my office | Curated documents
Initial set of questions | ||
| 7 | Apr. 25 - 29 | 25 | Future of Cognitive computing | |
| 26 | Future of Cognitive computing | |||
| 27 | Architecture of app.
Adding pizzaz | |||
| 28 | Status update in my office | Questions you developed
Training you completed Progress report on app development | ||
| 8 | May 2 - 6 | 29 | Inference | |
| 30 | Semantic Web Technologies | |||
| 31 | Cognitive architectures | |||
| 32 | Status update in my office | Questions you developed
Training you completed Progress report on app development Architecture of application Draft of script for video demo | ||
| 9 | May 9 - 13 | 33 | Retrieve and Rank in Detail | |
| 34 | Performance of R&R | |||
| 35 | Evaluation of Watson services | |||
| 36 | Status update in my office | Training you completed
Progress report on app development Script for video demo | ||
| 10 | May 16 - 20 | 37 | No class; Instructor presenting at a conference | |
| 38 | No class; Instructor presenting at a conference | |||
| 39 | Video demos, reports | BC: PPT presentation of app
Video demo of app | ||
| 40 | Video demos, reports, course evals | Final version of app
Training you completed Technical write-up of app Wed. of exam week: Take-home final on the Future of Cognitive Computing |