The University of Wisconsin-Madison is weighing plans to create a new college that will not only keep up with AI developments but help lead them — an endeavor that could prove revolutionary across academia and industry alike.
Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, the director of the school of Computer, Data & Information Sciences and the special advisor to the provost on computing, raised that possibility at Tuesday’s Wisconsin Technology Council Innovation Network luncheon in Madison, where he and other panelists discussed the implications of AI for the university, businesses and the future workforce.
With its long and pioneering history in computer science and translatable discoveries, UW-Madison stands on the precipice of a new age. If a new college is born out of the CDIS — currently under “strong consideration” — it would be the first this century.
“Colleges aren’t created very often on campuses,” said Arpaci-Dusseau. “The last one was 1979 … That’s a really unique opportunity that we have.
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