Arkansas university to expand Artificial Intelligence studies [Video]

SEARCY, Ark. — Starting next year, students at Harding University will be able to major in Artificial Intelligence in a program that university officials call the first of its kind anywhere in the southeast.

Harding Assistant Professor Joe Faith works in the school’s College of Business, but also has graduate degrees in Engineering and Data Science, which inspired him to start the new major.

“I brought this to [Dr. Dana Steil, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences] and Dr. Spears, our provost and said, ‘Hey, you know, I’d really be interested in making a major out of this,'” Faith told us.

John Brown University in Siloam Springs also recently started an AI major, but Faith said Harding’s will have additional class offerings and be different from other similar programs around …