We ran this session for 150+ attendees on Microsoft Teams. The audience was final-year CS/SE students at the Informatics Institute of Technology (IIT), Sri Lanka. The goal was to inspire students and staff to pursue computer science research and to think critically about AI work instead of following it blindly. We scheduled it because we see roughly 95% of students chasing AI hype for final-year projects even when industry demand isn’t strong for many of those topics. We also wanted to highlight other solid, in-demand areas across computer science and point students toward those directions.
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