K_AI News for 2020 Spring Quarter First Five Weeks

April 18th 2020

We are very excited to release this inaugural newsletter of Kellogg AI Club!
Despite the current state of the world forcing the club to be virtual, we are encouraged by wonderful response from the Kellogg community, and we cannot wait to share all of the great content we have lined up at our growing club.

IN THIS NEWSLETTER

• K_AI Spring 2020 Events
• Kellogg AI Sentiment Survey Results
• Quotes from Kellogg Faculty Who Teach AI
• Introductory and Trendy AI Readings
• AI & ML Resources

K_AI Spring 2020 Events

Click on each picture for details and registeration of an upcoming event, or for the slides and/or the recording of a past event with links by the location icon (requires CampusGroups sign-in)

Kellogg AI Sentiment Survey Results

43% of Kellogg students who participated in our survey think AI's impact on their industries will be significant or extrememly significant in the short-term to the mid-term. This number increase to 79% in the long-term, which anticipates the growing importance of Artificial Intelligence.

Our survey results are from Kellogg students of diverse background across 12 industries.

Quotes from Kellogg Faculty Who Teach AI

AI IS HERE: KELLOGG IS TRAINING LEADERS ON HOW TO HARNESS AI TO SOLVE BUSINESS PROBLEMS
- Read the full story featured on the cover of the latest KELLOGG MAGAZINE

“Leaders who have diverse networks are better at spotting opportunities and innovating - soon one of the most important contacts in a leader’s network won’t be another person, it will be a machine.”
- Brian Uzzi, Co-Director of Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
Executive Education course: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Innovation and Organizational Performance

"AI is going to permeate almost all business sectors in the next decade – but finding its best applications at each organization will remain a difficult task. Kellogg MBAs are uniquely poised to lead interdisciplinary teams to identify opportunities and execute, delivering innovation and growth to the entire organization.”
- Adam Pah, Associate Director of Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
MBA/EMBA course: Human and Machine Intelligence

"Our approach to teaching AI is to be completely driven by the problems that you're trying to solve"
- Florian Zettelmeyer, Director of the Program on Data Analytics at Kellogg
MBA course: Customer Analytics and AI
EMBA course: Leading with Advanced Analytics and Artificial Intelligence

"A careful analysis of historical and current trends suggests that AI's impact on work, organizations, and society, more broadly, will depend on three critical factors: the nature of the task, a profession's power relations, and policy decisions."
- Hatim Rahman, Donald P. Jacobs Scholar
MBA new course this quarter: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work

Introductory and Trendy AI Readings

What is artificial intelligence, really? (Accenture)

• AI 101: Videos that tackle AI, analytics and automation topics using simple analogies, clear definitions and practical applications – each in under a minute.

An executive's guide to AI (McKinsey)

• Machine Learning and Deep Learning. What are they? When do we use them? How do they work? These questions, business use cases for each topic and a timeline of AI breakthroughs are covered in this guide.

From Hype to Hero: A Look at AI in the CPG Industry (Bain)

• Learn how CPG brands with little operation history but deep data are investing in AI to gain an edge against their competition.

Is Machine Learning Really AI? (Forbes)

• This article unpacks the distinction between Machine Learning and AI, two topics that get blended together all too frequently in modern society.

Coronavirus: How AI, Data Science And Technology Is Used To Fight The Pandemic (Forbes)

• 10 short sections that each briefly highlight a unique How, ranging from tracking and forecasting outbreaks to modeling solutions for a cure or vaccine.

AI & ML Resources

Microsoft Azure

• Northwestern provides access to Microsoft Azure via a direct agreement with Microsoft that offers 12 months free trial
• It has a subscription model, so it is not fully free and it is not open source, but good for beginners with its graphical interface
• Students can log in Azure with NW account to take classes from Microsoft
• The Northwestern Cloud Community of Practice recommends practices for secure operation of Microsoft Azure accounts and resources

KNIME

• An open source alternative with a graphical user inferface for analytics and ML
• KNIME example workflows

• A commercial software of collaborative data science platform for teams of data scientists, data analysts, and engineers
• Tutorial with ML examples

Check out AI & ML Resource List on our website for more infomation.

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