A textbook for high school students on artificial intelligence (AI) edited by Yao Qizhi, a Turing Prize winner, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and dean of the Institute of Interdisciplinary Sciences of Tsinghua University, will be published in September this year.

The textbook will be published by Tsinghua University Press. A contract-signing ceremony for the publication was held at the university on January 7, according to the Science and Technology Daily.

The book elaborates eight core basic topics in AI, including search engines, machine learning, linear regression, decision trees, neural networks, computer vision, natural language processing and reinforcement learning, in a bid to better prepare students for AI education at universities.

Each chapter includes exercises and programing experiments that facilitate students’ deepened understanding of principles and content through practice.

According to Yao, the editorial board members of the textbook are faculty members of the institute, all leading experts in the field of AI who have an all-round and in-depth grasp of the discipline. (Zhang Yu)