Somewhere between NASA's Ames center and the Google campus in California is the new Singularity University. Headed by inventor and futurist Ray Kurzwiel, the new interdiscliplinary university offers short graduate programs and executive seminars. I'm assuming that as they grow full degree programs will be offered, but it's the interdicipliary nature of the programs that fascinates me. Graduates from one kind of field are plugged into a different kind of field (like robotics with medicine) and a curriculum is built from there. The promo video explains it more visually.
Here in Michigan we have some pretty top flight universities and colleges. I wonder how many of them have similar programs geared towards the matching of cutting edge fields to generate innovation.
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