To prepare the workforce of the future, the 30-credit M.S. in Artificial Intelligence (AI) aims to educate and train skilled leaders to create AI applications and AI systems that are designed to solve complex real-world challenges and problems across many industry domains. The purpose of the program is to achieve this latter goal while addressing the emerging needs of the market. Additionally, the new program, with its faculty and students, aims to accelerate multidisciplinary research and discovery in LIU emerging signature areas: health, pharmaceutics, pharmacological engineering, bioinformatics, and business among others. The program will create new opportunities for research and economic development. It is a pathway for masters students to pursue exciting career opportunities in the most innovative companies in the NY region and the globe across all industry sectors and/or Ph.D. research in Computer Science and related fields.

Problem solving, algorithmic design, and implementation using the Python programming language are presented. Topics include fundamental data types and associated collection data types, I/O processing, conditional and loop constructs, use and implementation of functions. This first part of the course is complemented with a through presentation of Object-Oriented programming. Select advanced features for both procedural programming and Object-Oriented programming are introduced. Throughout the course, good programming styles and sound program development are emphasized. Three credits; one-hour laboratory.