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- Artificial Intelligence Workshops - Artificial Intelligence and YOU
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Fee: $15.00
Dates: 2/27/2025 - 2/27/2025
Times: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Days: Th
Sessions: 1
Building: Online
Room: Zoom
Instructor: Dr. Chuck West
Join Dr. Chuck West in a captivating presentation on how Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) is changing the face of technology, business, education, and life as we know it. Many jobs will be lost, while new jobs, jobs we can only dream about, will be created. Today, Artificial Intelligence impacts the life of millions. In the not-so-distant future, the scope will be in the billions. Lives will be made easier, and we will live longer through the application of Artificial Intelligence in medical advances and human augmentation. Dr. West will lead discussions on where to go and not to go for Artificial Intelligence updates and information. Topics for discussion include ethics, farming, education, autonomous transportation, business, and more. You will not want to miss exploring how the impact of Artificial Intelligence innovations has already impacted civilization. Learn how your decisions now will impact YOUR future.
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- Artificial Intelligence Workshops - Ethics in A.I.
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Fee: $15.00
Dates: 3/11/2025 - 3/11/2025
Times: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Days: Tu
Sessions: 1
Building: Online
Room: Zoom
Instructor: Dr. Chuck West
Join Dr. Chuck West in an intriguing discussion into one of civilization’s most challenging and pressing topics, ethics in Artificial Intelligence. We can no longer base our ethical norms on Issac Asimov’s “Three Laws of Robotics”. Artificial Intelligence has evolved from a plethora of seemingly harmless algorithms to expert systems, machine learning, deep learning, neural networks, and generative systems without, for the most part, addressing any ethical limitations or constraints. The impact of these technical marvels will lead civilization into a new era of wealth and prosperity, to a future of subservience, or to even worse.
In this workshop, we will briefly address what each of the primary levels of Artificial Intelligence is and what they can do for us or to us. We will also focus on how machine learning, deep learning, and generative systems can potentially impact human existence. We will wrap these discussions around tangible functions of civilization. Topics will include real-world issues such as self-driving cars, facial recognition, hiring and firing, deep fakes, social networking, governance, military systems, misinformation, and social norms, to name just a few. We will also address the compliance of Artificial Intelligence with the First Amendment of the United States Constitution and how it applies to the virtual world of social networking of the population. In addition, we will discuss the growing role of A.I. in decision-making (e.g., hiring, criminal justice, healthcare).
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- Artificial Intelligence Workshops - Expert Systems: A First Step into the World of A.I.
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Fee: $15.00
Dates: 3/25/2025 - 3/25/2025
Times: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Days: Tu
Sessions: 1
Building: Online
Room: Zoom
Instructor: Dr. Chuck West
Through guidance from Dr. Chuck West, develop an appreciation for creating the inference engines and knowledge bases that are used in implementing Expert Systems. These systems emulate how humans think and make decisions. They take existing knowledge to solve complex problems by using conventional IF, THEN, ELSE set of rules. With no prior programming knowledge, you will develop a logic diagram for a simple Expert Systems. Learn how Expert Systems are created, their strengths, and their weaknesses. Learn the nomenclature necessary to communicate with developers within the Artificial Intelligence community. Expert Systems have been in use for decades in many varied fields from accounting to logistics, to reservation systems, to numerous military applications. Currently, Expert Systems are used extensively in the field of medicine.
No prior programming knowledge is required. All you need to bring to class is the desire to expand your knowledge and understanding of the world around you. This class, along with the class on Deep Learning, is designed to spark an interest in, not only the application of Artificial Intelligence in society, but also a generate an interest in lucrative careers in Artificial Intelligence.
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- Artificial Intelligence Workshops - Deep Learning
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Fee: $15.00
Dates: 4/10/2025 - 4/10/2025
Times: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Days: Th
Sessions: 1
Building: Online
Room: Zoom
Instructor: Dr. Chuck West
Learn how Deep Learning have taken Artificial Intelligence into new possibilities. Unlike Expert Systems, they are not programmed with the classic set of IF, THEN, ELSE rules. See how Deep Learning can learn much like humans do and how they are taught. Through examples, you will: see the basic differences between an Expert System and Deep Learning; gain an understanding of how massive amounts of structured and unstructured data are converted to useful knowledge that can be applied to various fields such as customer support, medical diagnosis, image analysis and self-driving vehicles; learn how a computer can decipher handwriting or pick a dog out of a millions of animal pictures; learn the difference between forward chaining and backward chaining, supervised learning and unsupervised learning, and the advantages of using multilayer perceptrons. You will be able to communicate with others in the field and develop an understanding and appreciation of what these systems can do to resolve complex problems and how this all will fit into the future. This class is designed to not only spark an interest in Artificial Intelligence but also to generate interest in very lucrative careers. Don’t miss this opportunity to gain an understanding of the most powerful field of study in computer science.
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- Leveraging A.I. for Personal Productivity
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Fee: $39.00
Dates: 2/17/2025 - 2/17/2025
Times: 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Days: M
Sessions: 1
Building: Online
Room: Zoom
Instructor: Brittney Richardson
In today’s fast-paced work environment, staying ahead means leveraging the right tools. This course is designed to teach you how to seamlessly integrate AI into your daily work routines, enhancing productivity, and optimizing time management. Through hands-on experience, you will explore practical AI tools that can automate repetitive tasks, streamline workflows, and provide actionable strategies to tackle everyday challenges more efficiently. By the end of the course, you will have a toolkit of AI-driven solutions to save time, improve focus, and drive greater success in your professional life. Whether you're managing projects, handling communications, or organizing data, this session will equip you with the skills to work smarter, not harder.
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- Leveraging A.I. for Personal Productivity
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Fee: $39.00
Dates: 5/6/2025 - 5/6/2025
Times: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Days: Tu
Sessions: 1
Building: Peoria Campus - Hickory Hall
Room: Hickory 126
Instructor: Brittney Richardson
In today’s fast-paced work environment, staying ahead means leveraging the right tools. This course is designed to teach you how to seamlessly integrate AI into your daily work routines, enhancing productivity, and optimizing time management. Through hands-on experience, you will explore practical AI tools that can automate repetitive tasks, streamline workflows, and provide actionable strategies to tackle everyday challenges more efficiently. By the end of the course, you will have a toolkit of AI-driven solutions to save time, improve focus, and drive greater success in your professional life. Whether you're managing projects, handling communications, or organizing data, this session will equip you with the skills to work smarter, not harder.
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- Microsoft Excel for Office 365 (Desktop or Online) - Part 1
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Fee: $99.00
Dates: 3/14/2025 - 3/14/2025
Times: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Days: F
Sessions: 1
Building: Peoria Campus - Hickory Hall
Room: Hickory 127
Instructor: David Nava
Excel can help you organize, calculate, analyze, revise, update, and present your data in ways that will help the decision makers in your organization steer you in the right direction. It will also make these tasks much easier for you to accomplish, and in much less time, than if you used traditional pen-and-paper methods or non-specialized software. This course aims to provide you with a foundation for Excel knowledge and skills, which you can build upon to eventually become an expert in data manipulation.
In this course, you will learn fundamental Excel skills. You will:
- Familiarize yourself with Excel's layout, its various parts, its commands, and its terminology.
- Outline Excel's abilities to quickly, efficiently, and accurately calculate data.
- Update worksheets without throwing away all of the valuable work you've already done.
- Format a worksheet and organize your data.
- Print workbooks.
- Manage the overall structure of your workbooks.
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- Microsoft Excel for Office 365 (Desktop or Online) - Part 2
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Fee: $99.00
Dates: 3/28/2025 - 3/28/2025
Times: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Days: F
Sessions: 1
Building: Peoria Campus - Hickory Hall
Room: Hickory 127
Instructor: David Nava
This course builds upon the foundational knowledge presented in the Microsoft® Excel® for Office 365™ (Desktop or Online): Part 1 course and will help start you down the road to creating advanced workbooks and worksheets that can help deepen your understanding of organizational intelligence. The ability to analyze massive amounts of data, extract actionable information from it, and present that information to decision makers is at the foundation of a successful organization that is able to compete at a high level.
You will:
- Work with functions.
- Work with lists.
- Analyze data.
- Visualize data with charts.
- Use PivotTables and PivotCharts.
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- Microsoft Excel for Office 365 (Desktop or Online) - Part 3
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Fee: $99.00
Dates: 4/18/2025 - 4/18/2025
Times: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Days: F
Sessions: 1
Building: Peoria Campus - Hickory Hall
Room: Hickory 127
Instructor: David Nava
This course builds on the foundational and intermediate knowledge presented in the Microsoft® Excel® for Office 365™ (Desktop or Online): Part 1 and Microsoft® Excel® for Office 365™ (Desktop or Online): Part 2 courses to help you get the most of your Excel experience. The ability to collaborate with colleagues, automate complex or repetitive tasks, and use conditional logic to construct and apply elaborate formulas and functions will put the full power of Excel right at your fingertips. The more you learn about how to get Excel to do the hard work for you, the more you'll be able to focus on getting the answers you need from the vast amounts of data your organization generates.
You will:
- Work with multiple worksheets and workbooks.
- Share and protect workbooks.
- Automate workbook functionality.
- Use Lookup functions and formula auditing.
- Forecast data.
- Create sparklines and map data.
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- Using Google Workspace -
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Fee: $99.00
Dates: 4/25/2025 - 4/25/2025
Times: 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Days: F
Sessions: 1
Building: Peoria Campus - Hickory Hall
Room: Hickory 127
Instructor: David Nava
Unlock the full potential of productivity by exploring Google Workspace! With its powerful suite of tools—like Gmail, Docs, Sheets, and Drive—you can collaborate, create, and stay organized seamlessly, whether you're working solo or as a team.
In this course, you will use the various apps included in Google Workspace to work productively. You will:
- Navigate the Google Workspace environment and use Gmail to send and manage email correspondence
- Manage schedules using Google Calendar
- Communicate with colleagues over text, voice, and video using Google Chat and Google Meet
- Store and share files using Google Drive
- Collaborate on documents using Google Docs, Google Slides, and Google Keep
- Collaborate on data using Google Sheets and Google Forms
- Collaborate on websites using Google Sites
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