Studying Watson Inside Out — A Cognitive Systems Course

We describe a course in which students train an instance of Watson and develop an application that interacts with the trained instance. Additionally, students learn technical information about the Jeopardy! version of Watson and they discuss a future infused with cognitive assistants. In this paper, we provide learning outcomes and course assessment items. We provide detailed course materials and advice for instructors interested in teaching such a course. The advice is in the form of best practices, a description of a successful use case and an evaluation of our experience teaching this course.