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"AI majors will receive the same solid grounding in computer science and math courses as other computer science students. In addition, they will have additional

by bertjk 8y ago

"AI majors will receive the same solid grounding in computer science and math courses as other computer science students. In addition, they will have additional course work in AI-related subjects such as statistics and probability, computational modeling, machine learning, and symbolic computation."

murph-almighty 8y ago
CMU Alum here (though I was ECE) - this description seems to make sense, all the 200 level courses are also CS reqs. I was also surprised to find out they brought 15-151 (Math Foundations of Computer Science) back.
- anaccountwow 8y ago
  It's a pretty good class now!
FractalLP 8y ago
And it will still look less beneficial than a standard comp Sci degree unfortunately. The only good part is that the school is pretty prestigious, so not as bad. Hopefully we don't have another AI winter.
- Echoheart 8y ago
  CMU alumnus here (SCS & LTI). I don't see the degree a looking less beneficial, but I'm biased. CMU has perhaps a unique way of handling CS education. When I was there about. 20 years ago the CS department required you to have a minor and strongly encouraged a second major. Most core CS work can be completed by the end of your sophomore year. There's not a lot of fundamentals. After that you can go for breadth of topic matter (embedded systems, networks, AI, cryptography/security, distributed systems, etc), as was the case for me. This degree seems to give more depth in regard to ML. You're right about the prestige of the school. 15 years after getting my degrees I still get fast-tracked for interviews. So I feel the coursework matters very little when it comes to being recruited. That being said, the majority of the material I learned hasn't been used in my career. It's largely the way they teach you how to think and solve problems that companies familiar with CMU value.

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"AI majors will receive the same solid grounding in computer science and math courses as other computer science students. In addition, they will have additional

by bertjk 8y ago

murph-almighty 8y ago
CMU Alum here (though I was ECE) - this description seems to make sense, all the 200 level courses are also CS reqs. I was also surprised to find out they brought 15-151 (Math Foundations of Computer Science) back.
- anaccountwow 8y ago
  It's a pretty good class now!
FractalLP 8y ago
And it will still look less beneficial than a standard comp Sci degree unfortunately. The only good part is that the school is pretty prestigious, so not as bad. Hopefully we don't have another AI winter.
- Echoheart 8y ago
  CMU alumnus here (SCS & LTI). I don't see the degree a looking less beneficial, but I'm biased. CMU has perhaps a unique way of handling CS education. When I was there about. 20 years ago the CS department required you to have a minor and strongly encouraged a second major. Most core CS work can be completed by the end of your sophomore year. There's not a lot of fundamentals. After that you can go for breadth of topic matter (embedded systems, networks, AI, cryptography/security, distributed systems, etc), as was the case for me. This degree seems to give more depth in regard to ML. You're right about the prestige of the school. 15 years after getting my degrees I still get fast-tracked for interviews. So I feel the coursework matters very little when it comes to being recruited. That being said, the majority of the material I learned hasn't been used in my career. It's largely the way they teach you how to think and solve problems that companies familiar with CMU value.