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Dr. Sam Thangiah '86November 17, 2025
Virtual Event 7:00 p.m. |
The Emperor’s New AI
It will not be long before the coffee roasters started to claim that your morning cup of joe is infused with artificial intelligence (AI). Afterall, it seems like every vendor out there is touting products that leverage AI – even when some of these solutions really don’t contain any intelligence. In this presentation, we will cover what is the difference between a program that uses artificial intelligence and an algorithm or computer program and the characteristics of an artificially intelligent program. That is, given any software system, how do we know with certainty that AI is implemented/integrated into the system. We will delve into the evolution of AI over the last five decades and the different models of AI that have been deployed and are available for use. In addition, we will look into some case studies of how AI is currently being used in different sectors.
Bio
Dr. Sam R. Thangiah is the chair of the Computing and Security department at SRU and the director of the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Lab. His Ph.D. is in computer science specializing in application of Artificial Intelligence to Operations Research problems. He has been teaching computer science and artificial intelligence at SRU for more than 34 years. He received a National Science Foundation Grant to set up an Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory at SRU in 1993. His research has been mainly into the development of intelligent algorithms for solving complex routing problems in logistics.
Learn more about Dr. Thangiah's work at SRU here.
It will not be long before the coffee roasters started to claim that your morning cup of joe is infused with artificial intelligence (AI). Afterall, it seems like every vendor out there is touting products that leverage AI – even when some of these solutions really don’t contain any intelligence. In this presentation, we will cover what is the difference between a program that uses artificial intelligence and an algorithm or computer program and the characteristics of an artificially intelligent program. That is, given any software system, how do we know with certainty that AI is implemented/integrated into the system. We will delve into the evolution of AI over the last five decades and the different models of AI that have been deployed and are available for use. In addition, we will look into some case studies of how AI is currently being used in different sectors.
Bio
Dr. Sam R. Thangiah is the chair of the Computing and Security department at SRU and the director of the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Lab. His Ph.D. is in computer science specializing in application of Artificial Intelligence to Operations Research problems. He has been teaching computer science and artificial intelligence at SRU for more than 34 years. He received a National Science Foundation Grant to set up an Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory at SRU in 1993. His research has been mainly into the development of intelligent algorithms for solving complex routing problems in logistics.
Learn more about Dr. Thangiah's work at SRU here.
