The University of Wisconsin-Madison is taking the next step to transform its computer school into a separate college focusing on computing and AI, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.
As In Business Madison reported in July, the university wants to make the change to help UW-Madison become a leader in AI.
UW’s board of regents will vote on Thursday on whether or not to move the UW-Madison School of Computer, Data, and Information Sciences out of the College of Letters & Science into a new College of Computing and Artificial Intelligence.
Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, director of the school of Computer, Data & Information Sciences and the special advisor to the provost on computing, said in July that the new college would center on AI innovation with more focused leadership, accelerated growth to keep stride with industry demand and opportunities for new fundraising and initiatives.
“Having a college that’s focused on being the prow of the ship is really important,” he said. “We want the impact of this thing not to be insular. It’s not to just generate more majors that are steeped in the topic matter but rather to have a much broader impact.
“The word I use to summarize this is, ‘integrative.’ To be successful, a new college… must be integrative,” Arpaci-Dusseau said. “It must bring AI and all the other related disciplines that we study into education and research throughout campus.”
