| I found the cross-discipline focus on the staff interesting: > The goal of the college, said L. Rafael Reif, the president of M.I.T., is to “educate the bilinguals of the future.” He defines bilinguals as people in fields like biology, chemistry, politics, history and linguistics who are also skilled in the techniques of modern computing that can be applied to them. > [...] > Traditionally, departments hold sway in hiring and tenure decisions at universities. So, for example, a researcher who applied A.I.-based text analysis tools in a field like history might be regarded as too much a computer scientist by the humanities department and not sufficiently technical by the computer science department. They're not just talking about streamlining "learn these statistical models" but also expanding humanities studies. The obvious wins from this that I see are: a) more applications of A.I. in areas that C.S. students are less interested in. b) more people who are knowledgeable about A.I. outside of C.S. |