CMU's AI Undergraduate Program Confers Its First Degrees

Artificial intelligence caught Shashank Ojha's imagination while he was a student at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Virginia. He took the few AI courses the school offered and soon set his sights on attending Carnegie Mellon University. "I knew that CMU was the place to be for AI," he explained. His plan when he entered CMU in 2016 was to pursue a bachelor's degree in computer science, with minors in machine learning and robotics. What he hadn't counted on was the School of Computer Science's 2018 decision to launch the nation's first undergraduate AI degree program.