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This project instructs on the basics of image processing a professor's lab, including use of Python, OpenCV, and numpy. Students are expected to write a code for license plate identification by the end of the semester. 

Students study aspects of Plato’s ethics, epistemology, moral psychology, political philosophy, meta-ethics, metaphysics, and philosophy of religion. They are studying parts of three dialogues: the Protagoras, the Theaetetus, and the Republic. The first two dialogues engage with a position that Plato found deeply unsettling: relativism. Protagoras’ relativism not only encompasses ethics and politics, but also pertains to epistemology and even metaphysics. In both domains, appearance is given a much stronger role than we would expect. The Republic contains a sustained argument to combat the ills of relativism and unenlightened self-interest by developing the blue-print of “the philosopher” whose understanding of the forms enables him or her to navigate the ship of state successfully towards the good.

In this course, students chose from a range of research topics in various academic fields and receive one-on-one training from an experienced mentor who helps them refine research ideas, formulate questions, define methods of data collection, execute a plan, and present findings. Students learn how to review background information to their project, summarize its key outcomes, write a clear and concise research paper/report, and present results orally.

This course sets the basics for an understanding of multimodal communication between humans and multimodal interaction between humans and machines. The course begins with clarifying the basic principles of human-human communication and human-machine interaction. The course then describes the processes taking place in humans when perceiving auditory, visual, and tactile signals, as well as how these perceptions are integrated in order to form a multimodal perception. The signals can be generated and received by machines which are able to interact with humans in limited domains. The set-up of such machines is discussed, and limitations as well as potential solutions to overcome these limitations is explained.