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General Info
The Department of Intelligent Information Technologies
Belarus State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics
Type of Organisation: public
Number of Employees: Less than 10
Activities developed: Research, Education.
B.S.U.I.R. - Belarus State University of Informatics and
RadioElectronics is one of the leading belarusian universities
in the area of computer science. Students study for five years
to get diploma which corresponds approximately to the Bachelor
degree. B.S.U.I.R consists of 6 faculties with about 7000 students
and 200 PhD students. The Department of Intelligent Information
Technologies belongs to the Faculty of Information Technologies
and Control. It was formed in early 1997 as a result of merge of
the Department of Intelligent Computer Systems and the Department
of Automated Control Systems. It has two specialities for students:
Artificial Intelligence and Automated Control, 50 students being
enlisted to each of them every school year. This is the first
educational institution in the former Soviet Union specializing
in the area of Artificial Intelligence in general and Natural
Language and Speech Processing in particular. This specialization
is provided by the Artificial Intelligence speciality which
started its educational activities in 1995 and now involves
25 3-rd years students, 25 2-nd year students and 50 1-st year
students. The schedule of courses of this speciality includes
Speech Interface (the 4th year of studies), Computer Linguistics
and Natural Language Interface (4th), Theoretical Foundations of
Learning and Recognition (3rd), Plausible Reasoning (3rd) and
more than 20 other courses dealing with formal models, languages
and architectures for knowledge processing and applications of
intelligent computer systems. The Department combines tutorial
and research activities by involving professors and students in
several R&D projects dealing with application of software and
hardware tools for processing large and complicated knowledge
bases.
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