artificial intelligence is a well-established, exciting branch of computer science concerned with methods to make computers, or machines in general, intelligent - so that they are able to learn from experience, to derive implicit knowledge from the one given explicitly, to understand natural languages such as english, arabic, or urdu, to determine the content of images, to work collaboratively together, etc. the techniques used in ai are as diverse as the problems tackled: they range from classical logic to statistical approaches to simulate brains. this pathway reflects the diversity of ai in that it freely combines a number of themes related to ai techniques, namely making sense of complex data, learning from data, reasoning and optimisation, and advanced web technologies.