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Notice – Summer session exams A.A. 2019-2020
The exam, consisting of a written part and an oral test, both of which are compulsory, will take place as follows:
1) Written test: it consists of 20 multiple-choice quizzes covering the entire course content. The test will take place on the EOL – Online Exams platform with the support of the Zoom app for surveillance. The duration of the test is 20 minutes. Results will be published within 1-2 days.
2) Oral test: students who have passed the written test (min 18/30) can take the oral test. The test will take place on Microsoft Teams.
The dates of exams (written and oral tests) will be published by April 18, 2020.
Course Formative Objectives:
- awareness of the information and communication technologies (ICTs) and of their socio-economical impacts
- awareness of main issues pertaining to the regulation of ICTs – knowledge of emerging aspects of European ICT Law
- awareness the basic principles and issues on government, e-governance and e-democracy – knowledge of the legal regulation of ICTs in the Europe
- awareness the Digital Agenda for Europe framework.
The student will acquire the awareness of risks and opportunities of ICTs and the basic competences to support the development of computable models and systems for the legal domain.
Course Contents:
- Computable law: introduction to models and approaches
- Legal retrieval systems
- Man-made models of the law and legal reasoning
- Machine learning systems and legal text analytics
- Legal issues of artificial intelligence and autonomous systems: introduction
- Legal issues of AI: big data, algorithmic decision making, data protection, predictive justice
- Legal issues of autonomous systems: aviation, autonomous driving, health care, robots, autonomous agents
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