Enrollment surges in AI Master’s degree program at UB [Video]

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The University at Buffalo announced Thursday there are 73 students enrolled in the AI Master’s program for this fall. It expects an additional 50 students to enroll next semester.

When the program was first introduced in the spring of 2020, only five students registered. 

The University at Buffalo first began offering students access to learn cutting edge technology in the 1970s with machine learning and then pattern recognition in the 1990s. Today, the school continues to make investments in technology like artificial intelligence. 

“The growth of our master’s program focusing on artificial intelligence has been nothing short of spectacular,” Kemper E. Lewis, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, said in a statement. “It shows that we’re providing students with in-demand skills that they can use for the betterment of society.”

Lewis …