Notes on Using Google Colaboratory in AI Education
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
6-15-2020
Abstract
We discuss our experiences using Google Colaboratory (Colab), a hosted version of Jupyter Notebooks, in undergraduate artificial intelligence (AI) courses at two universities. Colab was designed for AI and data science researchers to share reproducible experiments and explanations of techniques, but we have also found it well suited to classroom use. The primary benefit is that it provides students computational resources sufficient to run modern AI techniques interactively, and avoids students needing to separately configure software packages and dependencies, since they can run notebooks shared by the instructor. We briefly outline two of our notebooks, for teaching deep learning with Tensorflow, and reinforcement learning with OpenAI Gym.
Identifier
85086443250 (Scopus)
ISBN
[9781450368742]
Publication Title
Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education Iticse
External Full Text Location
https://doi.org/10.1145/3341525.3393997
ISSN
1942647X
First Page
533
Last Page
534
Recommended Citation
Nelson, Mark J. and Hoover, Amy K., "Notes on Using Google Colaboratory in AI Education" (2020). Faculty Publications. 5220.
https://digitalcommons.njit.edu/fac_pubs/5220