The university will rename its computing school after Mark and Mary Stevens.<\/p>\n
Frederic J. Brown\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
Mark Stevens, a venture capitalist and a board member of NVIDIA, and his wife, Mary, donated $200\u00a0million to the University of Southern California for artificial intelligence research. The university\u2019s computing school will be renamed the USC Mark and Mary Stevens School of Computing and Artificial Intelligence.<\/p>\n
Prior to this gift, the couple donated a total of $92\u00a0million to the university, of which Mark Stevens is an alum. Several centers at USC are already named in their honor.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs AI becomes ever more powerful, it creates enormous opportunities to improve lives and solve some of our greatest challenges, if used the right way,\u201d USC president Beong-Soo Kim said in the announcement Tuesday. \u201cMark and Mary Stevens\u2019 generosity will allow USC to leverage our existing interdisciplinary strengths and capitalize on these new opportunities at a critical inflection point for our society. As a top destination for AI talent, USC can accelerate our mission of educating future leaders, addressing real-world problems, and enhancing human values and agency.\u201d<\/p>\n
USC\u2019s computing school was first launched in 2024. The university plans to introduce an artificial intelligence bachelor\u2019s program this fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The university will rename its computing school after Mark and Mary Stevens. Frederic J. Brown\/AFP\/Getty Images Mark Stevens,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,25,501,76,293,500,382,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-29116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ai","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-career","11":"tag-education","12":"tag-events","13":"tag-higher","14":"tag-jobs","15":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}