Where AI fits in

As organizations adopt AI tools into daily operations, IT professionals are increasingly the ones responsible for integrating those tools responsibly — managing the data pipelines AI depends on, evaluating vendor AI products, and maintaining systems that must now account for AI-related risks alongside traditional ones. Ethics and responsible computing are built into the curriculum, reflecting the department's decades-long emphasis on the social effects of the technology it teaches.

Students have access to research opportunities, internships, and a direct path into a job market that increasingly expects IT graduates to understand both infrastructure and the AI systems now running on top of it.

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