This fall, the University of Pennsylvania will introduce a new artificial intelligence degree.
In the process, Penn will become the first Ivy League university and one of the first in the nation to offer a degree specific to AI technology, writes Ryan Mulligan for the Philadelphia Business Journal.
The program will be held at Amy Gutmann Hall, which is being built as a hub for data science and AI research primarily for Penn’s School of Engineering and Applied Science.
George Pappas, the UPS Foundation Professor of Transportation in Penn Engineering, will lead it.
The curriculum for the AI degree includes five math courses, five courses in programming, and 11 electives in areas such as robotics, machine learning, and optimization.
Penn Engineering Dean Vijay Kumar said that the research coming out of the nearly-built Amy Gutmann Hall will focus on “safe, explainable, trustworthy AI for humanity.”
“The timing of this new undergraduate program comes as Artificial Intelligence poses one of the most promising yet challenging opportunities the world currently faces,” Kumar added in a statement announcing the program.
According to a 2023 Bloomberg Institute study, the AI industry is expected to grow from $40 billion in 2022 to $1.3 trillion in 2023.
Read more about Penn’s new artificial intelligence degree at the Philadelphia Business Journal.
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